Notable new releases CSNY/DГ‰JГЂ VU (Maple) + THE LAST POGO (Independent) The age-old conflict of punks vs hippies will be stoked once again as these two music docs hit the shelves. This contest goes to the longhairs in Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young for having the career-imperiling cojones to surprise nostalgic boomer fans with the anti-war and anti-Bush invective of Neil’s Living With War album during a 2006 tour.

Directing the film under his nom de camera Bernard Shakey, Young obviously enjoyed the opportunity to piss off CSNY’s red-state constituency. At stake is the larger issue of how expressions of dissent are made, received and disseminated in today’s America. Young’s middle-finger salute rates as one of the ballsiest moves in his infamously rancorous career.

The audience also gets good and angry at the Horseshoe Tavern in The Last Pogo , Colin Brunton’s appropriately rough-hewn 27-minute film about the club’s last night as a punk venue in 1978. Too bad there isn’t more archival footage on this long-awaited DVD edition ‘” it’s augmented only by a TV performance by VU revivalists The Scenics and a commentary by The Secrets’ Chris Haight that would be more useful if he remembered anything at all about the evening in question.

Oh, well ‘” that’s Hogtown rock ‘n’ roll for ya. The Mother of Tears (Alliance) The lurid and gruesome murder scenes in this belated follow-up to Suspiria and Inferno prove that Dario Argento’s imagination is as diseased as ever. But what we were really waiting all our lives to see was Dario’s daughter Asia getting menaced by an angry monkey. The abundance of naked goth chicks is surely the cherry on top of some sleazebag’s sundae. EXTRAS: interview, making-of featurette.