Serving as an inspirational beacon for aspiring musicians and artists — women and men alike — Beat Keepers: The Next Chapter may not be a big-budget feature, but its heartbeat is HUGE!

On and On (Big Ego Records ). Review by Steven Garnett.

Let the Good Times Roll (Vegas Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Shout It On The Mountain (Heavy Medication Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Longtime Ink 19 contributor and author Christopher Long became as giddy as a twenty-something college co-ed trapped at an all-night Birkenstock sale when he recently scored a well-loved vinyl copy of The Best of the Statler Brothers at a Florida flea market, for a buck. And he’s lived to tell about it.

One of the last films of Japanese film studio Daiei, Play It Cool makes its first home video appearance outside of Japan on a new Blu-ray.

Tim Everitt & Tom Sartori’s 1984 kung-fu fantasy, Furious, sends up both classic martial arts movies and made-for-video American schlock in a high kicking, chicken blasting, magical kung-fu romp.