Featuring over 30 interviews with members from bands such as Nomeansno, Dayglo Abortions, Neos, Show Business Giants, Red Tide, Infamous Scientists and many more, Somewhere to Go is a gritty and raw documentary film that does not simply focus on the past phenomenon of punk in Victoria BC but aims to explore the timeless themes of rebellion, ‘art for art’s sake’ and the integral role of music to culture, community and identity.
Live performance from the post-punk goth band, recorded at the Marquee Club in London in 1984.
Jim and Loz Beck are brothers from Chipping Norton. They play rock'n'roll together since they're 8 years old. At 18, they leave the boring british countryside to live and work on their music in London. Jim starts working in a Cultural association while Loz discovers the pleasures of the student life. The film is driven by the raw punk music and the deeply political and emotional lyrics from their two piece band Cassels. In this intimate portrait, Jim and Loz will confront their strong artistic point of view and their DIY approach to the reality of the music industry and the social and economical London's life.
Recorded for Canal+ TV's La Musicale series in France, Riverside, California's BellRays rip through four songs promoting the 2006 album, Have A Little Faith. Tracks: "Third Time's the Charm", "Tell the Lie", "Everyday I Think of You", and "Detroit Breakdown".
A documentary about portuguese punk/hardcore scene in Portugal.
Loud, fearless and (un)typical girls: Gina Birch (The Raincoats) and Helen Reddington (The Chefs), musicians and punk icons turned directors, serve up a fascinating documentary built on new interviews with the women who played instruments in punk bands in the 1970s. In accounts laced with wit, honesty and insight, pioneering players including the Adverts’ Gaye Black (bass), Palmolive from The Slits (drums), Shanne Bradley from The Nips (bass), Jane Munro from The Au Pairs (bass), Hester Smith and Rachel Bor from Dolly Mixture (drums and guitar), bassist Gina and guitarist Ana Da Silva from The Raincoats, as well as many others, we hear about acquiring instruments, learning to play, forming bands and getting gigs.
During a career that stretches back to the mid-’80s, Matthew Sweet has never followed trends, though his landmark 1991 album "Girlfriend" was responsible for starting one — its bone-dry, caterwauling sonics opening up a wild and picturesque new terrain for restless singer/songwriters to inhabit and explore. On Tour is a music and performance program recorded live on location at local venues in PA, NJ & DE
A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."
Made in NYC is the live album released by the punk rock band The Casualties, recorded live in 2007 at a small NYC club. One listen and it's clear that The Casualties are still the reigning kings of the current street punk movement. DVD featuring a "Welcome Home" show concluding the 'Punx for Life' tour, behind the scenes footage and a tour of NYC punk rock landmarks with band. Listen and watch as The Casualties fight to keep REAL Punk Rock alive in an ever changing New York City landscape.
The Long Ryders, with bands such as The Bangles and The Three O' Clock, were key players in the Paisley Underground, a musical movement from the mid-1980s, combining the chiming folk rock of the 1960s with a psychedelic bent and a bit of punk attitude. The Long Ryders developed a cult following, becoming college radio favorite. This presentation finds frontman Sid Griffin and his band performing at the Roxy in Los Angeles in February of 1986.
Directed by Hugo Conim and Miguel Newton, "Enterrado na Loucura – Punk em Portugal 78-88 - A 2ª Vaga" (“Buried in Insanity – Punk in Portugal 78-88 – The second wave”), continues a history that started to be told in “A Um passo da Loucura - A 1ª Vaga" (“One Step from Insanity – The first wave”) a documentary first screened in 2015. The two documentaries are a faithful and realistic portrait of the first decade of Punk in Portugal. This second documentary starts in 1982 with the birth of a second wave – more combative and involved with the punk scene - of Portuguese punk bands like ‘Crise Total’, ‘Grito Final’, ‘Kú-de-Judas’, Mata-Ratos or Peste & Sida and ends around 1988. The history is told not only by the musicians but also by anonymous punk’s or even concerned parents. It’s an interesting narration that evolves around music but also around aesthetical, political, educational, legal and ethical dimensions of Punk.
On the run from a $45,000 debt, critically acclaimed, San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker Amalia Ortiz has returned home and is hiding out in Texas. When her attempt to make ends meet working in the family business, selling quaint folk art door-to-door doesn't work out, she turns her artistic sights on Speeder, the Chicano punk band rehearsing across the street.
Ravaged by a debilitating illness, the Toxic Man sets out to stop the cabal of scientists and bureaucrats responsible for his metamorphosis in a surreal stab at vengeance.
Canada's Hardcore legends, D.O.A., ply their political brand of Punk Rock in Newport, Kentucky in 1986.
About the art explosion in Amsterdam during the 1980's when artists of all sorts found spaces and places and the legendary club RoXY (1987-1999) was created.
Cincinnati Garage Rock legends, The Chants, perform on City Nights.