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Urgh! A Music War
Tweet Directed by Derek Burbidge UK, 1981 Genre: Post-Punk Urgh! A Music War is a strange little monster, a two-hour, un-narrated, non-linear, seemingly arbitrary series of concert clips taken from...
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N.W.A.: The World’s Most Dangerous Group
Tweet Directed by Mark Ford USA, 2008 Genre: Hip Hop “You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.” Those words still pack a gut-wrenching punch and a palpable sense of anticipation...
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Better Than Something: Jay Reatard
Tweet Directed by Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz USA, 2011 Genre: Punk, Alternative/Indie I saw Jay Reatard play in San Francisco in 2008, a hangover still raging around my brain from the previous...
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The Auteur Theory: Luke Haines on Film
Tweet Anyone who read Luke Haines’ wonderful 2009 memoir Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall might expect Art Will Save the World, a new music documentary about the acerbic ex-Auteurs...
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Instrument
Tweet Directed by Jem Cohen USA, 1999 Genre: Punk, Post-Punk, Alternative/Indie Fugazi went on hiatus when I was 16 and living in a small market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, at...
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Graham Jones’ Record Store Odyssey: Good to the Last Shop
Tweet Every music lover of a certain age has at one time or another muttered about the good old days – when vinyl shops thrived and people bought records, rather than drifting through a vapid universe...
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Mission to Lars
Tweet Directed by William Spicer and James Moore UK/USA, 2012 Genre: Metal Tom Spicer has a form of autism known as Fragile X Syndrome and lives full time in a care home in Devon, England. And while...
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Color Me Obsessed: A Film About the Replacements
Tweet Directed by Gorman Bechard USA, 2011 Genre: Punk, Alternative/Indie, Fan Documentary “Kinda Brilliant. Kinda Dumb. Kinda the Replacements.” That’s the tag line for this account of the revered...
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The Velvet Underground – Under Review
Tweet Directed by Tom Barbor-Might UK, 2006 Genre: Rock Ah, the The Velvet Underground. Has there ever been a band so fervently appreciated, worshiped, and discussed in front of a camera that...
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Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Tweet Directed by Stephen Kijak USA/UK, 2006 Genre: Rock, Experimental As Scott Walker unleashes one of the rarest and most treasured events in any musical year – a new studio album, Bish Bosch – it...
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Inside Bob Dylan’s Jesus Years: Busy Being Born … Again!
Tweet Directed by Joel Gilbert USA, 2008 Genre: Rock, Gospel, Singer-Songwriter In the late 1970s Bob Dylan was seeking purpose, meaning, and perhaps comfort in his life. Nearly 20 years in the public...
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Fragments of a Rainy Season
Tweet Directed by Jacquemin Piel France, 2003 Genre: Rock, Concert Film Strange to think that a boy born in the heavily industrial former mining town of Garnant, Wales, during World War II could...
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The Punk Syndrome
Tweet Directed by Jukka Karkkainen and J-P Passi Finland, 2012 Genre: Punk Stripped to its essence, the endless debate about who and what constitutes “punk” usually comes down to something like this:...
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I’m Now/Mudhoney: Live in Berlin 1988
Tweet I’m Now: The Story of Mudhoney Directed by Ryan Short and Adam Pease USA, 2012 Genre: Alternative/Indie Mudhoney: Live in Berlin 1988 No director credited Germany, 2012 Genre: Alternative/Indie,...
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What Did You Expect? The Archers of Loaf Live at Cat’s Cradle
Tweet Directed by Gorman Bechard USA, 2012 Genre: Alternative/Indie, Concert Film In the opening moments of What Did You Expect?, as Archers of Loaf shuffle onto the stage at Carrboro, North Carolina...
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The Stone Roses: Made of Stone
Tweet Directed by Shane Meadows UK, 2013 Genre: Alternative/Indie, Tour Film The English – especially Northern English – habit of clinging to the Stone Roses as a sonic peak never to be reached again...
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Shut Up and Play the Hits
Tweet Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern UK, 2012 Genre: Concert Film, Dance Music, Alternative/Indie “You’re ending this in a strangely controlled manner,” journalist and author Chuck...
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Off Ways
Tweet Directed by Uli M Schueppel Germany, 2009 Genre: Industrial, Music and Politics Having watched Einsturzende Neubauten play live – and having wondered while doing so if end times were coming – I...
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Bob and the Monster
Tweet Directed by Keirda Bahruth USA, 2011 Genre: Alternative/Indie The Bob in question? Bob Forrest, frontman for ’80s underground LA band Thelonious Monster. The monster in question? Heroin. Bob and...
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American Hot Wax: Documenting the Wide World of Stones Throw Records
Tweet Madlib (left) and DJ Peanut Butter Wolf Eclecticism is what every record label strives for, right? A rich and diverse roster that reflects the open-mindedness and risk-taking dynamism of the...
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