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The 20 Best Music Documentaries Of 2021

The second pandemic year of 2021 featured a wide variety of fantastic music documentaries. Some gave us better understandings of artists we've known for a long time, while others re-contextualized great performances in a new light. Here's the 20 best of the year.

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Five Years Later: ‘Love & Mercy’ Was the Decade’s Best Music Biopic

Stephen Silver

There's only one music biopic in the post-'Walk Hard' era that has managed to transcend it, with a creative structure and an innovative approach. And that movie is the Brian Wilson biopic 'Love & Mercy.'

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A documentary on the iconic Laurel Canyon music scene from the ’60s is set to hit select theaters this May

Ljubinko Zivkovic

'Echo In The Canyon', a feature documentary on the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late '60s is set to hit theaters on May 24. Featuring conversations with the likes of Brian Wilson, Tom Petty, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, and more.

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Sensory Deprivation in Music – How Deaf and Blind Musicians Experience Sound

Jeff Mitchell

Musicians making music without sound or sight are forced into such a position by necessity; forced to embrace their instruments as guides as much as tools. A new sense develops in them - that of intimacy - leading to a highly personal relationship with their music.

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The Beach Boys Are Next In Line To Receive A New Deluxe Box Set

Ljubinko Zivkovic

The box set will cover two of their key mid-period albums, the 1970 album 'Sunflower' and 1971 album 'Surf’s Up.' Both rank among the band's most mature and best.

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A List of Rock’s Essential Viewing: Music at the Core

Ljubinko Zivkovic

The amount of good films about rock and its culture is quite vast, but here's a list of some essential ones concentrating ‘mostly’ on the music first and foremost.

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One Of The Best Rock Albums Ever – 50 Years Later, Has Forever Changed Yet?

Ljubinko Zivkovic

In 1967, Arthur Lee and his then stable band, Love, came up with Forever Changes - widely considered to be their, and one of rock’s greatest masterpieces. While making some impact in Europe, in particular England, at the time, the album was practically ignored in the US. Now, 50 years later, the album is being recognized for what it is (even by Rolling Stone, who missed its greatness the first time around).

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(A Certain) “Smile” – The Beach Boys Masterpiece Album That Never Was

Ljubinko Zivkovic

Smile was to be the title of the 12th Beach Boys album that was to be released anywhere between January and June 1967. It was to be their masterpiece. Actually, it was supposed to be THE rock and roll masterpiece, better than anything The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix or Bob Dylan came up with. But then...it never came out.

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