REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

This week I am joined by the one and only  Kid Congo Powers  of  The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , and  Juanita & Juan  (to just scratch the surface of his incredible career), who picked the iconic 1956 rock n' roll comedy classic  The Girl Can't Help It !!! We discuss Kid running the  Ramones  fan club, sleeping outside for ticke...

Welcome to an emergency BONUS episode of Revolutions Per Movie! Last week, while I was talking to Jackie and Jill from Target Video, they mentioned the doc  We Were There To Be There,  which focuses on Target filming  The Cramps  &  The Mutants  playing a show at Napa State, a psychiatric hospital in Northern California. So today, here is my conversation with...

My guests this week are two absolute legends,  Jackie Sharp  and  Jill Hoffman-Kowal  of the punk rock video team  Target Video  (who documented hundreds of incredible live performances by  Iggy Pop, The Screamers, Black Flag, Throbbing Gristle, minutemen, The Cramps, Hüsker Dü, Survival Research Laboratories, Bauhaus, Dead Kennedys ,  Lydia Lunch, and Young...

This week, we continue our conversation with musician  David Pajo  ( Slint, Papa M, Gang Of Four ) as we start to delve into his music-film pick: the Louisville, Kentucky indie-music narrative film  Half-Cocked,  in which he also appears! We discuss David meeting filmmakers  Suki Hawley  &  Michael Galinsky , the legendary Rocket House in Louisville where mos...

My guest this week is musician  David Pajo  ( Slint, Papa M, Gang Of Four ), who picked the Louisville, Kentucky indie music film  Half-Cocked    to discuss.  BUT…there was so much to talk about that this is only part one of the conversation before we even got to talking about the film!   We discussed his Papa M compositions, how Slint songs were made to sou...

Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Welcome to our bi-monthly ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vault! The incredible Craig Finn on the amazing Ramones' cult film Rock 'N' Roll High School...what more can I say, Principal Togar...this episode rules...enjoy! (Episode 51 originally aired on August 24th, 2024). Original Show Notes: This week, we talk to CRAIG FINN of THE HOLD STEA...

My guest this week is comedian/writer/actor  Jon Gabrus  ( High & Mighty ,  101 Places To Party Before You Die   TV Series  &   Staying Alive  podcast w/ Adam Pally ), who chose to discuss the  Mike White/Richard Linklater/Jack Black  force of nature  School Of Rock . We discuss Jon’s surprising new health show with  Adam Pally  (...

This week I’m joined by comedian/podcaster/director  Scott Aukerman  ( Comedy Bang Bang, Between Two Ferns, R U Talkin' R.E.M. RE: ME?  w/ Adam Scott ) as we delve into the recent  David Bowie  documentary,  Moonage Daydream. We also discuss Scott’s parents searching his teenage room for dangerous music,  Frankie Goes To Hollywood  and  Prince , Sc...

Welcome to an Encore Presentation of one of my favorite episodes ever of Revolutions Per Movie, where I got to discuss the documentary Desolation Center with the creators of these legendary events (who else would put the Minutemen on a barge or Einsturzende Neubauten in the desert). Plus, I love it whenever I get to surprise my guests with more guests to create the whole picture from the inside ou...

This week I’m joined by author/photographer  Pat Blashill  ( Texas Is The Reason; Someday All The Parents Will Die ) to talk about the Texas punk community he documented, including  Scratch Acid ,  Butthole Surfers  &  Big Boys,  as well as the 2014 documentary  The Dicks From Texas . We also discuss punks living in Texas and how the bands from there pus...

My guest this week is graphic novelist/artist/musician  Leela Corman  ( Victory Parade, Unterzakhn ),  who chose to discuss the 1980 midnight movie classic  Forbidden Zone . We also talk about how Leela creates her long-form graphic novels, the difficulties and joys of making her masterwork  Victory Parade , how  Einstürzende Neubauten 's album  La...

Welcome to an Encore Presentation of the first episode ever of Revolutions Per Movie...It had to start somewhere...and of course I had to begin with 'Dig' the Dandy Warhols/Brian Jonestown Massacre documentary! I was so happy that my first discussion already had a surprise guest to dismantle the film from the inside. Oh, the youth of us all...ha! (Episode 1 originally aired on Sept. 14th 2023). Th...

This week, my guest is author, musician, journalist  DAVE BIDINI  (member of Canada's longest running indie band-- Rheostatics,  Editor-In-Chief at West End Phoenix, author of 12 books including  Around The World In 57 1/2 Gigs ) who picked one of the most fought-over titles to discuss on Revolutions Per Movie,  Ron Howard 's TV Movie Of The Week,  COTTON CANDY !!! We...

This week I’m joined by  IRA ROBBINS  (Editor & Co-Founder of  TROUSER PRESS  magazine) as we end the year with the 1959 U.K. cult classic  EXPRESSO BONGO !!! We discuss how Ira's influential magazine was started on a whim, and how as outsiders they wanted a different approach to rock journalism, how they got a long-form interview with  Jimmy Page , how...

Hey everyone...welcome to our bi-monthly ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vault! This was a special one...director Ryan Worsley had just finished the film at the time of this recording and was publicly screening it along with Negativland performing live afterwards. Not only was it the best Negativland performance I had ever seen, but it was also one of the mos...

This week, I’m joined by David Longsreth (of  Dirty Projectors  and musical collaborator with  David Byrne ,  Bjork ,  Solange , and  Rihanna ) to talk about his life in music, and the experience of composing his first soundtrack for  A24 's  The Legend of Ochi. We discuss the head-bending Dirty Projector’s take on the  Black Flag   Damaged&nb...

This week, I talk to  Beth Harrington, Emmy-winning/Grammy-nominated  director of  The Winding Stream: The Carters, The Cashes and the Course of Country Music,  the upcoming Duplex Planet documentary, and a recording/touring member of  Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers,  about her amazing documentary,  Welcome To The Club: The Women Of Rockabilly . We...

Hello and welcome to a special holiday bonus episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!! I'm delighted to be joined by film critic/author  Alonso Duralde  ( Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation in Film  &  Have Yourself A Movie Little Christmas)  to discuss one of the greatest holiday feasts of all time:   PEE-WEE'S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL !!!! We also discu...

My guest this week is Doug Gillard ( Guided By Voices, Nada Surf, Death Of Samantha ), who picked the film,  Ghost On The Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce & The Gun Club ,  to discuss. We also talk about our experiences recording for Guided By Voices, the night GBV played Austin City Limits , Doug’s first songs he wrote when he was 5 years old, the influence of cartoon/bubbl...

How better to ring in the start of the holiday season than with two of my favorite music film obsessives, musician  Chaki  (The Funk Wizard) & comedy writer/artist/filmmaker  Rachel Lichtman  of  Programme 4,  who brought to my attention the 1970 TV spectacular  T he 5th Dimension Special: An Odyssey In The Cosmic Universe Of Peter Max . We dis...

Hey everyone...welcome to our bi-monthly ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vault! And what could be more timely for this Thanksgiving week than a listen back to my episode with DAVID PASQUESI ( Strangers With Candy , Lodge 49 , At Home With Amy Sedaris, Veep, TJ & Dave ) about the Thanksgiving concert that was to become THE LAST WALTZ !!! Enjoy! (EPISODE 53...

My guest this week is Michael Layne Heath (critic, author & compiler of  My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters With Lou Reed ), who brings us the Lou Reed & John Cale performance film  Songs For Drella to discuss. We also talk about Michael starting the first D.C. Punk zine in 1977, reading about bands before hearing them, The Slickee Boys , Tommy Keene & Razz , Vintage Violenc...

This week I'm joined by author and music critic  Keith Cameron  ( Mudhoney: The Sound and the Fury From Seattle, 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers ), who picked the documentary  I’M NOW: THE STORY OF MUDHONEY  to dive into. We discuss our relationship with the British musical weeklies and how Keith ended up working for them, the power of Radio...

My guest this week is JASON POLLARD, the co-director of  OL' DIRTY BASTARD: A TALE OF TWO DIRTYS . We discuss the filmmaking influence of Jason's father (the Peabody and Emmy-winning Sam Pollard) on Jason’s own film work,   being on the set of Spike Lee films as a young kid, what it was like for Jason to co-direct  A Tale Of Two Dirtys  with his father, analog vs digital e...

Hey everyone...welcome to our bi-monthly ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vault! On this early episode of Revolutions Per Movie, I was joined by VERA DREW (writer, director, and star of T HE PEOPLE'S JOKER ), who picked a film that had a massive influence on her art, Pink Floyd: The Wall . It seems totally incredible that at the time of recording this episode,...