With twice as much hubris and psychedelia as the common Behind the Music tragedy, next week every American living room can bear witness to DIG!, last year's award-winning rockumentary by Ondi Timoner, culled from seven years of filming the friendship and eventual train-wreck between The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. If you didn't catch the brief art house run of the film after it won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, now's you're chance to see a truly great Rock & Roll movie. The heroes are epic, from the intersection of genius and volatile personality disorder colliding in Anton Newcombe of BJM to the more subdued audio provocateur in Courtney Taylor of the Warhols. Newcombe is mesmerizing in his artist-absolute manifesto: "Until they can write the letter I'm writing," he says of record companies, "I am the letter writer and they are the postman! End of discussion!" Palm Pictures has expanded the film to a two-DVD set, with the second disc packed with commentary audio tracks, music videos and deleted scenes. ...

More excellent DVD viewing can be found in the latest release from Eagle Rock's "Classic Albums" series, this time peeling back the curtain of Nirvana's Nevermind. From the original Smart Studio sessions of "Lithium" to a track-by-track analysis of the entire album, the story is told by drummer Dave Grohl, bassist Krist Novoselic (looking very mature) and producer Butch Vig. Other insights from Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth are fascinating as well, as is a look back at the making of the album cover, featuring the naked infant model, now a teenager. ...

In the "show-biz" tradition of Big Daddy, Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine and Morris Day & The Time, a new live CD is due this Tuesday from The Dan Band, daring to three-part harmonize to ABBA's "Fernando" and Toni Basil's "Mickey." Best known for their potty-mouth version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" from the film Old School and as the bar mitzvah band in Starsky and Hutch, this is kooky, serious business with no shame for the 1980s. Chuggin' through hip covers of hits like "No Scrubs," "Flashdance" and "Tom's Diner," this vocal trio is a new breed of boy band, like a zany, high-energy, off-Broadway karaoke night from hell. And I rather like it -- scampy, campy and everything American Idol could aspire to be. Two bonus tracks on the Side One Dummy Records release aren't meant for Grandma's ears -- "I Wanna Rock You Hard This Christmas" and a studio version of the aforementioned, profanity-laced Bonnie Tyler hit.

Television Alert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno welcomes Velvet Revolver Thursday and Breaking Benjamin Friday. Late Night with Conan O'Brien hosts Moby Wednesday and Duran Duran Tuesday. Last Call with Carson Daly boasts Tori Amos Thursday. Jimmy Kimmel Live features Lisa Marie Presley Wednesday and Dizzee Rascal Friday. Austin City Limits reruns the Modest Mouse and Guided By Voices episode this weekend. And Saturday Night Live's musical guest this weekend is Green Day.

New Releases Coming Tuesday
and like the winds, young grasshopper, are subject to change ...

American Hi-Fi ­ Hearts On Parade (Maverick); The Bills ­ Let Em Run (Red House) Juno-nominated Canadian Roots music; Toni Braxton ­ Unbreak My Heart: The Remix Collection (La Face) with remixes by David Morales and Junior Vasquez; Mariah Carey ­ The Emancipation of Mimi (Def Jam/Island) with guests Nelly and Twista; Garbage ­ Bleed Like Me (Interscope) produced by John King of the Dust Brothers, this long-awaited new album features guests Dave Grohl and Marilyn Manson; Maktub ­ Say What You Mean (Velour) follow up to their critically-acclaimed debut, Khronus; Millencolin ­ Kingwood (Burning Heart/Epitaph); Marcus Miller ­ Silver Rain (Koch) with guests Macy Gray, Gerald Albright and Eric Clapton, and covers of Prince's "Girls and Boys," Johnny Winter's "Frankenstein" and Jimi Hendrix's "Power of Soul"; Mudvayne ­ Lost and Found (No Name/Epic) available on regular CD and enhanced DualDisc with bonus videos and photo gallery; The National ­ Alligator (Beggars Banquet) excellent label debut of this Brooklyn-via-Cincinnati quintet, confessing sins in the vein of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen; Of Montreal ­ The Sunlandic Twins (Polyvinyl) also available in a gatefold vinyl package with a bonus etched 12-inch; Willie Nelson ­ Songs for Tsunami Relief: Austin To South Asia (Lost Highway) recorded this past January in Austin, Texas, this CD and DVD features Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, Patti Griffin, Alejandro Escovedo, Jon Dee Graham and Spoon; The Perishers ­ Let There Be Morning (Nettwerk); Amy Ray ­ Prom (Daemon) second solo album from the Indigo Girls cofounder, with guests Kate Schellenbach of Luscious Jackson, Donna Dresch of Team Dresch and Michelle Malone; The Rosebuds ­ Unwind (Merge) CD EP from Raleigh, North Carolina; Starflyer 59 ­ Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice (Tooth & Nail); Supersystem ­ Always Never Again (Touch & Go) formerly known as El Guapo; VCR ­ VCR (Side One Dummy) for a band with multiple keyboardists and no guitars, this EP rocks hard with nervous convulsion and herky-jerky hypnotism; Martha Wainwright ­ Martha Wainwright (Rounder); Wednesday 13 ­ Transylvania 90210 (Roadrunner) new from the Murderdolls frontman.