1991: The Year Punk Broke
Directed by: Dave Markey
"Our audience is expanding," says Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore in The Year Punk Broke. "My mind is turning into a fine gelatinous ball of...
Dig!
Directed by: Ondi Timoner
To play the industry game, or not to play the industry game? That is the question posed in Dig!, Ondi Timoner's unusually intimate documentary about the linked fortunes of...
Heima
Directed by: Sigur Rós
If Sigur Rós is Iceland's gift to the world, then Heima is Sigur Rós' gift to Iceland. A native word meaning "at home," the film follows the band on a series of sixteen free, unannounced concerts across their...
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Directed by: Sam Jones
The story of the little album that could, Sam Jones' I Am Trying to Break Your Heart follows the band Wilco on its tortuous, anguished, but ultimately triumphant path to releasing their sublime...
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
Directed by: Julien Temple
"I want a riot!" Joe Strummer passionately sings in the opening frames of Julien Temple's The Future is Unwritten, "a riot of my own!" Indeed he got one. As the frontman for seminal punk act The Clash...
Kill Your Idols
Directed by: S.A. Crary
"We weren't just trying to make music," says Jim Sclavunos of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. "We were also trying to be...
loudQuietloud
Directed by: Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin
Cantor and Galkin covered the whole process, from the first awkward rehearsals— where frontman Frank Black struggled to remember his own songs—to the band hitting its stride in...
Meeting People is Easy
Directed by: Grant Gee
With the release of their 1997 album, OK Computer, the band suddenly found itself at the center of a media frenzy. Hailed as a modern masterpiece, their tour in support of it was beset on all sides by...
Modulations
Directed by: Iara Lee
Keyboard pioneer Robert Moog alleged that "electronic music is the hot-rodding of the '90s." Anyone who watches Iara Lee's Modulations is...
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Directed by: Jeff Feuerzeig
Manic Depression! Plane crashes! Assault! It's the kind of drama one normally associates with hedonistic rock stars like Mötley Crüe or Oasis, not underground folk singers. But Jeff Feuerzeig's The Devil and Daniel Johnston reveals...
The Fearless Freaks
Directed by: Bradley Beesley
The Flaming Lips are one of the most sublimely offbeat acts to emerge from the 90's alternative music scene, and Bradley Beesley's film follows in minute detail their hard-knocks rise from three chord blunderers to...
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Directed by: Tim Irwin
We Jam Econo tells the story of D. Boon and Mike Watt, two best friends from Pedro, California who started a band that had everything to do with the spirit of punk rock and almost nothing to do with...