Mike Mettler

Bruce Springsteen onstage solo shot, electric guitar

Live Review: Bruce Springsteen Reaches Higher Ground

The Boss & the E Street Band testify to the power of rock & roll in the swamps of New Jersey.

By Mike Mettler
Posted April 4, 2012

“Church.”

That was how a musician friend responded shortly after I told him via iPhone chatter that it was 10 minutes before Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band hit the stage last night in the first of two dates at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

» Read More

Dr. John at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Live Review: Dr. John Unlocks His 21st Century Night Tripper

The good hoodoo doctor serves up some mighty rad gumbo at BAM, ably assisted by his ace bandleader, the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach.

By Mike Mettler
Posted April 9, 2012

I knew I was in for something special as soon as I took my aisle seat in Row M in the orchestra at the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (a.k.a. BAM) last Friday. It was Night 2 of Dr. John’s 3-night stand, named for his new, supertasty album Locked Down, produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach.

» Read More

Amoeba Records, Los Angeles, exterior

Professional Disc Hunter

Our EIC is always on a sacred search-and-find mission whenever he goes to Amoeba Music in West Hollywood.

By Mike Mettler
Posted April 20, 2012
2

If you know anything about me, you know how much I love going to record stores, and that I especially love taking my time sifting through everything they have in stock.

» Read More

Mikael Akerfeldt and Steven Wilson talk vinyl

Storm Corrosion Talk Vinyl

Worldwide Exclusive! Noted record lovers Mikael Åkerfeldt and Steven Wilson navigate the nuances of the LP format — and much more.

By Mike Mettler
Posted May 1, 2012

Sound+Vision is honored to present an exclusive 10-minute interview clip with Storm Corrosion, the explosive new collaboration between Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt and Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson. SC's self-titled debut comes out next Tuesday, May 8, in a variety of S+V-friendly formats.

» Read More

Thom Yorke Live at 165 Mulberry Street

Live Review: Radiohead

Indie gods show why they’re the kings of pushing the live-arena envelope

By Mike Mettler
Posted June 1, 2012

Radiohead followed their own muse at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Thursday, May 31.

» Read More

Avengers Blu-ray preview

The Avengers Assemble on Blu-ray

The $600-million-making blockbuster arrives on September 25 with a cosmic-size slate of amazing extras

By Mike Mettler
Posted June 29, 2012

Yesterday, a rep from Disney came to the S+V offices to show me some of the coolest interactive features that will be on the Blu-ray edition of The Avengers, which comes out on September 25.

» Read More

Roger Waters live at Yankee Stadium 2012

Roger Waters Tears Down The Wall

All in all, it gets S+V’s Reference stamp of approval for establishing the benchmark for live audio and video presentation.

By Mike Mettler
Posted July 9, 2012

With speakers strategically positioned all the way around The House That Ruth Built — a.k.a. Yankee Stadium — and buttressed by a multimedia visual presentation second to none, Roger Waters and his ace band tore through Pink Floyd’s seminal 1979 masterpiece The Wall in full on July 7 in the Bronx.

» Read More

Roger Waters live at Yankee Stadium 2012

Gallery: Roger Waters Tears Down The Wall

The benchmark audio and video experience comes to Yankee Stadium

Add new comment

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith

Aerosmith Redraw the Line

Pumped up Boston rockers reclaim their wings in a mighty show of Aeroforce.

By Mike Mettler
Posted July 25, 2012

Those wondering whether Aerosmith could still kick ass and take names live saw any lingering doubts dissipate with the band’s vibrant 107-minute show at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 24.

» Read More

The Art Of Listening

Steven Wilson continues to push the boundaries of surround-sound mixing. Audiophiles the world over approve.

By Mike Mettler
Posted September 18, 2012
2

“Anything that we sit down in, we’re good at.” This is Steven Wilson, 5.1 mixmaster nonpareil, discussing two of the gold medals that Great Britain won in the Summer Olympics — one in cycling, the other in rowing. If there were Olympic medals given for achievement in surround-sound mixing, then Wilson would own more golden hardware than Michael Phelps has collected a dozen times over.

» Read More