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Kill Your Idols
Tweet Directed by Scott Crary USA, 2004 Genre: Post-Punk, Alternative/Indie Back when she was queen of New York’s late ’70s/early ’80s “No Wave” scene, Lydia Lunch of Teenage Jesus & the Jerks...
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Not a Photograph: The Mission of Burma Story
Tweet Directed by Jeffrey Iwanicki and David A. Kleiler Jr. USA, 2006 Genre: Post-Punk, Alternative/Indie Not a Photograph revolves around Mission of Burma’s 2002 “Inexplicable” tour, which saw...
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Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are a Devo Documentary
Tweet Devo’s fanbase isn’t what it was, size-wise – not compared to the Akron spud boys’ early-’80s spell as perhaps the world’s least likely hitmakers. But those who’ve stuck around, many of them...
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Joy Division
Tweet Directed by Grant Gee UK/USA, 2007 Genre: Post-Punk As surely as as any other influence, places make bands. Liverpool and the Beatles, Detroit and the Stooges, Springsteen and Jersey. One of the...
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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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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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Special Effects: The Story of Shoegaze in Beautiful Noise
Tweet A movie about shoegaze? As its British music press-bestowed moniker implied, it wasn’t the most visual of subgenres. Far from just staring at their feet in performance, shoegaze avatars the...
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That ’80s Music Film: How a Long Island Radio Station Broke the New Wave
Tweet Forgive me a generational indulgence, but what am I supposed to do, not post on the Indiegogo campaign for Dare to Be Different? In 1982, under the slogan that gives this music documentary in...
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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Tweet Directed by Richard Lowenstein and Lynn-Maree Milburn Australia, 2011 Genre: Alternative/Indie, Post-Punk I feel continuing pangs of guilt about my Big Star documentary pan of a month back. I...
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Jack Bond: Catching Up with Adam Ant in Music Film The Blueblack Hussar
Tweet The Blueblack Hussar is a story of Adam Ant, but it’s not the story of Adam Ant. Jack Bond’s music documentary picks up the tale in early 2011 as the punk-turned-pop sensation was embarking on...
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Hardcore Devo Live!
Tweet Devolving back to their earliest days as a band, Devo perform rare and little-known tracks in this June 2014 show which doubled as a tribute to late member Bob Casale and was caught live by...
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Gerald Casale of Devo: Back to the Basement in a New Concert Film
Tweet Devo's Gerald Casale in concert film Hardcore Devo Live! The theory of de-evolution took musical shape in the basements of Akron, Ohio, where a bunch of ex-Kent State University art students –...
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Big Gold Dream: Postcards from the Dawn of Scottish Post-Punk
Tweet The short-lived Scars were at the center of Edinburgh's late '70s/early '80s post-punk scene. Photo courtesy of Hilary Morrison. Big Gold Dream is a study in indie inspiration and cinematic...
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Fast List: Bob Last’s Favorite Indie Labels (Besides His Own)
Tweet What makes a great independent record label – besides, of course, great music? “They all have attitude,” says Bob Last of the six indies he picked as favorites in response to our request for a...
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