Thurston Moore
Also Known As: Sonic Youth
Biography: Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 25, 1958
Age: 66 years old
Gender: Male
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Punk: Attitude
Overview: A documentary on the music, performers, attitude and distinctive look that made up punk rock.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-04
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Notebook
Overview: Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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1991: The Year Punk Broke
Overview: David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances by Dinosaur Jr, Babes in Toyland, The Ramones and Gumball.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-19
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Kill Your Idols
Overview: A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current generation of would be icons and true innovators seeing to represent New York City in the 21st century
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-08
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David S. Ware
Overview: A documentary about saxophonist David S. Ware.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Overview: A compilation of 24 music videos by Sonic Youth ranging from 1990 to 2002. Collaborators include Harmony Korine, Spike Jonze, Todd Haynes, Mark Romanek, Richard Kern, and more.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-08
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25 Years of Punk
Overview: Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock movements in New York & England, the underground punk scenes in the 70's & 80's, and the punk resurgence in the 90's. A collaboration between VH1 and Spin magazine.
Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-19
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Sonic Youth: From The Basement
Overview: Enjoy Sonic Youth’s full From The Basement set! Track listing: 01:26 - The Sprawl 10:45 - Incinerate 16:15 - Hey Joni 20:42 - Jams Run Free 24:34 - Pink Steam Recorded August 2007
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-22
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Overview: The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's preeminent No Wave icon from the late 70's, Lunch has forged a lifetime of music and spoken word performance devoted to the utter right of any woman to indulge, seek pleasure, and to say "fuck you!" as loud as any man. In this time of endless attacks on women this is a rallying cry to acknowledge the only thing that is going to bring us together - ART...as the universal salve to all of our traumas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-15
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Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Overview: This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous video clips and films of live gigs as well as interviews with, and reminiscences of, collaborators over the years will be used to document the musical development of one of the most innovative and influential bands of the last two decades. Contemporaries include former mentor Glenn Branca, composer and conductor of guitar symphonies which had a seminal influence on participating musicians such as Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore, who went on to become Sonic Youth’s guitarists. The band members‘ numerous creative arts projects and other musical activities – in particular improvised music – will be covered in depth.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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I Need That Record!
Overview: Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection - why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade," (Johnathan Perry, Boston Globe). A tour-de-force tale of greed, media consolidation, homogenized radio, big box stores, downloading, and technological shifts in the music industry told through candid interviews, crestfallen record store owners, startling statistics, and eye-popping animation. Fat cats or our favorite record stores? You decide. Featuring- IAN MACKAYE, NOAM CHOMSKY, MIKE WATT, THURSTON MOORE, LENNY KAYE (Patti Smith), CHRIS FRANTZ (Talking Heads), GLENN BRANCA, PATTERSON HOOD (Drive By Truckers), PAT CARNEY (Black Keys) , LEGS MCNEIL, BOB GRUEN, BP HELIUM, and many indie record stores across the U.S.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-03
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Blood on the Beach
Overview: Sonic Youth's Blood on the Beach is comprised of two shows and interview clips recorded in November 1985 in Brighton, UK.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-01
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Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Overview: Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a film museum, research library and art gallery. The event, which raised money for the Archives and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker Stan Brakhage, featured Sonic Youth providing an improvised instrumental collaboration with silent Brakhage’s films. The band performed with drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes (Essex Green, Jukeboxer, Silver Jews).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-12
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Louder Than You Think
Overview: Gary Young, drummer for indie-rock icons Pavement, injected a wild-card unpredictability into the band's breakthrough, lo-fi sound. But those same gonzo impulses derailed his rock star dream.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-13
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Day Trip Maryanne
Overview: Day Trip Maryanne captures the collaboration between legendary sound sculptor Maryanne Amacher and guitarist Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth at her house last autumn. In this very visually honest presentation, the musicians make heavy drones until the speakers explode.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Record Player: Christian Marclay
Overview: Christian demonstrates some techniques and preparations and meditates on the turntable, improvisation, and the difference between the sonic and the visual arts.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-09
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Cut Shorts
Overview: A collection of short films and music videos from independent filmmaker David Markey, from 1974 to 2004.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-06
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Ecstatic Peace Archives
Overview: Lance Bangs interviews Thurston Moore about the Ecstatic Peace Archives.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
Overview: the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lunch, Blixa Bargeld, Alex Hacke, Gudrun Gut, Nick Cave, and others. An important film. Bravo, Mr. Dreher.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-07-03
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Kill Your Idols: More.
Overview: A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is included on the DVD of the 2004 film KILL YOUR IDOLS.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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Llik Your Idols
Overview: Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-30
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Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Overview: Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City. Part of the first wave of American noise rock groups, the band carried out their interpretation of the hardcore punk ethos throughout the evolving American underground that focused more on the DIY ethic of the genre rather than its specific sound. As a result, some consider Sonic Youth as pivotal in the rise of the alternative rock and indie rock movements.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-04
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Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Overview: Sonic Youth's 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France's largest rock music festivals.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-03
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Scala!!!
Overview: This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-05
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Weatherman '69
Overview: Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself, this deadpan narrative pays dubious homage to the 1960's radical underground. In this crudely rendered home video of a commune of stoned revolutionaries, the cameras are hand-held, the edits in-camera, and the dialogue is wryly on-target. Pettibon's band of outsiders reenacts a countercultural moment defined by rock music, drugs, and ideological paradox — and in so doing, captures their own late-80's West Coast grunge milieu as well.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-17
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Turn of the Century
Overview: Filmmaker, illustrator and musician Dame Darcy's weekly television collaboration with Blessed Elysium's Lisa Hammer aired on New York's Public Access from 1996-1999, presenting original drama and comedy in a German Expressionist style, utilizing New York underground personalities including Jennifer Nixon (aka Queen Itchie), Peter Moran, Bliss Blood, Banjo Pete, Miller Duvall, Secretary Jenny, Cynthia Mitchell, Patrick O'Clock (aka Patrick Hambrecht), Jasper McVain, Daisy Miller, Li'l Sweetie, and Countessa Cinorre, as well as celebrity guest stars Thurston Moore, Courtney Love and Tiny Tim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
Overview: Formed in 1978 by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, and still actively playing and recording today, Redd Kross are the ultimate rock and roll lifers. They have influenced independent music in ways that beg to be acknowledged. From helping invent Beach Punk to influencing the Grunge and Glam Metal movements, Redd Kross have maintained the highest level of musical integrity, originality and quality for over forty years. Born Innocent will introduce a wider audience to two of the coolest people alive. The McDonald Brothers embody Southern California, rock and roll, and what it means to be an artist.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-20
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An Introduction to Harmolodics
Overview: Ornette Coleman is always asked, “what is Harmolodics?” Harmolodics is the term he coined to describe his music and his philosophy of life. He decided to do a short film about Harmolodics. A few artists were in enlisted, including Lou Reed, Thurston Moore, Yoko Ono and dancer Wunmi Olaiya. The film only went out to journalists as part of the Tone Dialing press kit. It was released publicly in honor of the occasion of Ornette’s 90th birthday March 9, 2020.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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Death Valley '69
Overview: Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment interlaced with live footage of the band.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
Overview: Filmed during their 2005 reunion tour, this release captures the sonic guitar assaults of Dinosaur Jr. onstage, playing the songs "Gargoyle," "Little Fury Things," "Just Like Heaven," and more. Also included is rare behind-the-scenes footage featuring the band, as well as interviews with Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Mike Watt (The Minutemen), and guitarist Steve Albini.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-29
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Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Overview: Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone almost relentless media scrutiny. This is a playful yet deeply intimate portrait of Lee, exploring his meteoric rise to pop stardom and the issues of celebrity and spirituality that arise when launched into the spotlight.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-06
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Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Overview: Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-08
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We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Overview: A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginnings in San Pedro, California, to their demise after the death of singer D. Boon in 1985.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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From The Basement
Overview: First DVD release from this refreshingly basic UK music programme puts the music in the foreground with an impressive role call of acts. With sparse production and no filler (no host, no audience, just artist centre stage), From The Basement's eclectic line-up reads like a contemporary alternative who's who; The White Stripes, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Albert Hammond Jr., The Shins, Beck, Damien Rice, José González, Super Furry Animals, Eels, and more.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-08
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Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
Overview: "Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)" examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own records and booked their own shows-without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny. Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 1990s (and the industry's subsequent implosion). Thirty years later, DC's original DIY punk spirit serves as a reminder of the hopefulness of youth, the power of community and the strength of conviction.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-11
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Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Overview: Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern musical genius, regarded as one of the true giants of post-war music. Seated at his beloved and battered piano in his Brooklyn brownstone the maestro holds court with frequent stentorian pronouncements on life, art and music.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Overview: Cassette inventor Lou Ottens digs through his past to figure out why the audiotape won't die. Rock veterans join a legion of young bands releasing music on tape to push Lou along on his journey to remember.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-27
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The Road to Ruane
Overview: Billy Ruane, storied impresario of the 90s Boston indie music scene. Billy promoted shows and inspired cult-like followings of bands by the likes of The Lemonheads, Dinosaur Jr., Pixies, Superchunk, Buffalo Tom, Elliott Smith, Pavement, and Sonic Youth. His gracious treatment of artists set new standards in music. But underneath Billy’s exuberant cartoon-like demeanor and Harvard education, was the pain of a man with deep trauma, who struggled with bipolar disorder and substance abuse, and was confounded by the weight of an endless supply of money.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-04
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Don't Bring A Dog
Overview: Don't Bring A Dog shows a part of the New York underground music scene - rooted in the early eighties - existing apart from MTV and billboard charts. Music, interviews, sounds and pictures of the city blend into a collage. Don't Bring A Dog works like a time capsule of people and music in NY at a particular moment
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Grunge Pedal
Overview: Starring Vehicle for Free Kitten. Kim Gordon, Julie Cafritz, & Mark Ibold lounge on suburban lawns, jamming a guitar effects box & Japanese beat boxes. Thurston reads lyrics off Public Service (early 80's L.A. hardcore compilation), and Saccharine Trust's "Pagan Icons". Mark, in English accent, reads bio penned by Byron Coley.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-19
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Rap Damage
Overview: Thurston on a bender. Shot one day during a break on the Ragged Glory Tour. Hip Hopped-up NYC roadie Maurice Menares plays the psychotic sidekick/bunny. Offensively endearing, in the face of P.E., N.W.A., REM, and Desert Storm. Chance occurrence of fire, predating the LA riots. Stopping at yard sales, ended up on Venice beach. By the end of the day, I went nuts. Keep in mind, this was at a time when "Rico Suave" by Gerrardo was in heavy rotation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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Goo
Overview: In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track listing was identical to that of the original album.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-11
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Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
Overview: Explores the seminal music magazine from its 1969 launch in Detroit to the untimely death of its publisher Barry Kramer in 1981.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-14
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The Hardcore Collection
Overview: This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley 69 , The Right Side Of My Brain, You Killed Me First, The Bitches, The Sewing Circle, X is Y, Fingered, Horoscope, Submit to Me Now, My Nightmare, Manhattan Loves Suicides, Submit to Me, and Evil Cameraman. Music from Sonic Youth, Cop Shoot Cop, J.G. Thirwell, Butthole Surfers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-21
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Sublapse Video Mag 1
Overview: Video Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern, Sonic Youth, White Flag, Psycho Daisies, Charlie Pickett, Nick Zedd, Morbid Opera More R&R, Film, Prose. Pencil numbering indicates there was a run of 600 tapes.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-23
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365 Day Project
Overview: This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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Blank City
Overview: In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-06
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Changing Fashions
Overview: Anthony Kiedis and Sofia Coppola try to escape the fashion influence of Debbie Harry.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-15
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The Public Image Is Rotten
Overview: British rock icon John Lydon and fellow bandmates recall the years they spent performing as Public Image Ltd.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-21
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Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Overview: Documentary that gives a voice to the percentage of youth that were outcasts/non-conformists in the 90's. Interviews many famous musicians and other celebrity personalities, who talk about their being outcasts as youths, in school etc., leading up to their successes in adult life, and how being an outcast/non-conformist played a role in their artistic expression.. Also touches upon the topic of teen suicide & depression.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-16
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Teenage Superstars
Overview: Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish music scene. It features bands, such as The Bluebells, The Pastels, The Soup Dragons and an early incarnation of Teenage Fanclub; plenty of rich archive footage; and fascinating interviews with some of the key people of the time, including Edwyn Collins, Bobby Gillespie, Jim Reid, Sean Dickson, Eugene Kelly and Alan McGee.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-22
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Pavement: Slow Century
Overview: Documentary tracing the existence of noted rock band Pavement from 1989 to their final performance in late 1999.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-22
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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Overview: From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A beautifully gaunt and gothic aristocrat, the unique distinctive fury of his guitar style shot him directly into the imagination of a generation. He was impeccable, the austerity of his artistry embodied in his finely wrought form, his obscure tastes and his intelligently wry wit. He radiated a searing personal integrity that never seemed to tarnish. Despite the trials and tribulations of his career, in an age of makeover and reinvention, Rowland Howard never ‘sold out’. With recent and moving interviews, archival interviews and other fascinating and original footage, AUTOLUMINESCENT traces the life of Rowland S Howard. Capturing moments with the man himself and intimate missives from those who knew him behind closed doors; words and images etch light into what has always been the mysterious dark.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
Overview: Dandelion Records and DVD's present Probably the nearest you will ever get to an official documentary on Mark E Smith and The Fall. Put together over a period of 13 years by three Danish Fall fans and with full involvement from Mark E Smith this film gives a real insight into the mechanisms of The Fall. Features many live clips and rehearsals of both The Fall and Smith and Ed Blaney. The cast list includes Mark E Smith, John Peel (a real in depth contribution from Peelie), Henry Rollins, Thurston Moore, David Gedge, Stephen Malkmus, Dee Dee Ramone, Peter Hook, Grant Showbiz, John Cooper Clarke, Damo Suzuki, Gary Lucas, Ed Blaney, Jim Watts, Spencer Birtwistle, Ben Pritchard, Zlatko Buric, Alan Wise, The Other Dave and Fall Fan Dave. Bonus material includes a great interview with Mark E Smith in what was his favourite pub near Heaton Park in Manchester (sadly the pub is now closed)
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-15
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(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Overview: While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion piece to include. The film was also shown to a handful of lucky audiences before the DVD's eventual release in 2011. It's an awesome bonus with tons of great footage that could have easily been in the film. These songs were probably the best to leave out of the full-length film, since 2 were brand new and still quite shaky. The only tour staple not accounted for in either film is "Mary-Christ". Here are the sources I could determine: Inhuman - ?? White Kross - 08/27/91 Bremen Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit - 08/24/91 Koln In Bloom (Nirvana) - 09/01/91 Rotterdam Eric's Trip - 09/01/91 Rotterdam (but spoken intro is from 08/25/91?) Tunic snippet - 08/27/91 Bremen Chapel Hill - 08/27/91 Bremen
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-12
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I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
Overview: This documentary tells the story of Mudhoney from their very beginnings, to following them on their recent world tour and everything in between. Complete with testimonials from friends, music industry veterans and musicians such as Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Soundgarden's Kim Thayil and Mudhoney themselves. This is the true story of the founding fathers of Grunge.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-20
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Sonic Youth - Goo
Overview: Promotional music video collection
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-21
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Overview: This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-31
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You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
Overview: Documentary about rock pioneer Roky Erickson, detailing his rise as a psychedelic hero, his lengthy institutionalization, his descent into poverty and filth, and his brother's struggle with their religious mother to improve Roky's care.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-08
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Desolation Center
Overview: The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the inspiration for Burning Man, Lollapalooza, and Coachella. Interviews and rare performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Redd Kross, Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, Savage Republic, Swans and more.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-16
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Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Overview: Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this Soundstage performance, recorded on May 7, 2003 at WTTW Grainger Studio in Chicago. The band, which settles just outside the realm of definition, delivers a part rock, part free-form noise, part avant-garde punk performance which features a new song "Sympathy for the Strawberry."
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-18
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Put More Blood Into the Music
Overview: PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of their powers in 1988.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-06
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Daydream Nation
Overview: A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full at the ABC in Glasgow in 2007.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-23
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Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Overview: From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their odds-defying current status as one of the most accomplished and ambitious bands in the world, one whose concerts are more like ecstatic rituals than nostalgic trips. SWANS has always been a collection of singular performers, but there's been one constant since its formation in 1982--singer, songwriter Michael Gira. 'Where Does a Body End?' is a SWANS documentary with unfettered access to hundreds of hours of Gira/SWANS archives of never-seen-before recordings, videos, and photographs. An unfiltered story of a life in the arts, frequent difficulty spanning decades without a safety net, creating work because Gira says "What else am I going to do?"
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Overview: An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in music have performed here.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-24
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Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
Overview: As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural ambassadors for the city when traveling. As part of the 2019 Rooftop Films programming, Sonic Youth will present a New York-specific collection of film and videos from their private archives. Much of the material to be presented is completely unseen, threaded together with a few items which are out there in the public knowledge but here presented from the best source available to the band.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-17
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Overview: A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive interviews conducted by Basquiat's friend, filmmaker Tamra Davis, the production reveals how he dealt with being a black artist in a predominantly white field. The film also explores Basquiat's rise in the art world, which led to a close relationship with Andy Warhol, and looks at how the young painter coped with acclaim, scrutiny and fame.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-25
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Lou Believers
Overview: Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, and Lou Reed roam the streets of Los Angeles searching for James Woods.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Overview: A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-27
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Noise
Overview: Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-15
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Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Overview: A video documenting Sonic Youth's performance at the Gila Monster Jamboree. Taking place in a remote location in the Mojave Desert, this was the bands first ever show on the West Coast. The bill also included bands such as Meat Puppets, Red Kross and Psi-Com.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
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Thick Air
Overview: An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to understand and to find that sound. A tale of sleepless nights and loud music, a noise-injected collage composed of diaristic footage, a found narrative (memories of a popular 60s band), original music and field recordings.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-26
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Welcome to My Castle!
Overview: Over 5 hours of full-length interviews with Nirvana, Tommy Chong, Sonic Youth, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Ron Jeremy, and many more. Includes videos of Nardwuar's band, The Evaporators, along with all sorts of bonus material!
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-04
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The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Overview: Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Overview: The American indie rock band “Dinosaur Jr.” is a radical group with an unmistakeable sound. The film tells the story the three charismatic guys in the band: J. Mascis (vocals, guitar), Lou Barlow (bass) and Murph (drums).
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-01
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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Overview: The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-27
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The Sparks Brothers
Overview: Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.
Genres: Documentary Music Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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New York Rock at the BBC
Overview: Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and more. 01.New York Dolls - Jet Boy (Nov 1973) 02.Patti Smith Group - Horses (May 1976) 03.Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Jan 1978) 04.Television - Foxhole (May 1978) 05.Ramones - Don't Come Close (Sep 1978) 06.Blondie - I'm Alway Touched By Your Presence Dear (Mar 1978) 07.Lou Reed - Waiting For The Man (Dec 1984) 08.John Cale - Dying On The Vine (Dec 1985) 09.Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane (Dec 1992) 10.Patti Smith - Because The Night (Apr 2002) 11.Lou Reed - Perfect Day (May 2003) 12.John Cale - Venus In Furs (Oct 2003) 13.David Byrne - This Must Be The Place (May 2004) 14.Antony And The johnsons - Hope There's Some One (Jun 2005) 15.The Strokes - Last Nite (Jun 2006)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-24
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Submit to Me
Overview: Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard Kern's camera. Originally created for DTNY acid parties; Submit to Me was eventually edited down to 10 minutes and given an accompanying score.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Skeeno H.C. Rules
Overview: Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded the earnest hardcore classic "Skins, Brains, & Guts" EP. The town was known as Skeeno. Audio recorded especially for the film by Society's Ills, a band consisting of Mike Watt (bass), Thurston (vocals), Dez Cadena (guitar), & David Markey (drums), who cover said EP.
Genres: Comedy Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-16
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Pavements
Overview: Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography.
Genres: Comedy Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-02
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Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
Overview: The final Sonic Youth concert
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-14
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Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000
Overview: The band performs at the Free Jazz Festival
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-19
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Free Tibet
Overview: A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Overview: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times is a documentary about the life of Brian Wilson, the musical mastermind and songwriter for the Beach Boys. The film examines the ups and downs of Wilson's life, including the early years of the Beach Boys, his years of substance abuse, and his long road to recovery.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Overview: Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago. The best accounts agree that he emerged on Earth as Herman Blount, born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, although Sun Ra himself always denied that Blount was his surname. He returned to Saturn in 1993 after creating a stunningly variegated and beautiful assemblage of earthly and interplanetary music, most notably with his fervently loyal Arkestra. Sun Ra and his Arkestra were the subject of a few documentary films, notably Robert Mugge’s ‘A Joyful Noise’ (1980), which interspersed performances and rehearsals with Sun Ra’s commentary on various subjects ranging from today’s youth to his own place in the cosmos. This documentary reuses some of Mugge’s material and includes some additional interviews.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
Overview: ACL presents the evolution of electric guitar music with Sonic Youth and the Black Keys. Sonic Youth showcases the avant-garde rock of its latest album The Eternal, while the Black Keys highlights the classic blues rock of its recent record Brothers. Sonic Youth Setlist: No Way Sacred Trickster Anti-Orgasm What We Know 'Cross the Breeze The Black Keys Setlist: Thickfreakness I'll be Your Man Next Girl Howlin for You Tighten Up She's Long Gone I Got Mine
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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