REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

This week, I'm releasing a one-two punch of Judas Priest-related films. On today's episode, I’m joined by  EVAN 'FUNK' DAVIES , legendary DJ on  WFMU , who brings us a Heavy Metal Parking Lot-adjacent film to discuss today:  ROCK STAR  (loosely based on the story of Tim "Ripper" Owens, who replaced Rob Halford of  Judas Priest  after being in a  Ju...

This week I’m joined by  WILCO's MIKAEL JORGENSON  to discuss a film he knows backward and forwards:  HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT!   But that's not all… I also got to blow his mind with surprise guest  JEFF KRULIK--The Co-Creator of HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT!!! We discuss Mikael’s endless creativity and how he decides where to put his energy on any given day,&nbsp...

Welcome to my 100th episode of Revolutions Per Movie (and that's really 181 episodes counting the exclusive Patreon episodes )! So to properly celebrate gloriously, we are joined by one of the greats, Tom Scharpling (host of The Best Show , co-host of Double Threat , and writer for What We Do In The Shadows & Monk ) who brings us his favorite music film of all time by his all-time favorite art...

Hey everyone...in honor of Julie Klausner coming to Portland to do Revolutions Per Movie Live on July 5th 2025 , I'm re-releasing my incredible conversation with Julie about the Nancy Sinatra TV Special Moving With Nancy (Episode 5 which originally aired on Oct. 12th, 2023). This episode should get everyone excited to come out to see us at the Clinton St. Theater where we will be watching and disc...

This week I’m joined by Australian musician  Gareth Liddiard (Tropical Fuck Storm, The Drones)  who chose to discuss one of the greatest concert films of all time,   EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN: HALBER MENSCH . We talk about how  Tropical Fuck Storm  made their own film ( Goody Goody Gumdrops)  during the pandemic lockdown, Gareth playing shows with Neubauten, how TFS...

Hey everyone...in honor of our upcoming 100th episode (!!!), I'll be occasionally re-releasing some of my favorite past conversations. This one was special and powerful--the incredible Ann Magnuson coming on and being incredibly heartfelt, funny, vulnerable, and truthful on the show. I love that I never know where the show is going to go and this episode is the perfect example of why I feel so hon...

This week, we are joined by  Sue Carpenter , the author and director of  40 WATTS FROM NOWHERE , which documents her pirate radio stations in SF and LA. We talk about what made her want to turn her book into a documentary, how her station also became a theatrical experience, the incredible amount of documentation she did considering it was a pirate radio station, what makes starting a tr...

Hey everyone...in honor of our upcoming  100th episode  (!!!), I'll be re-releasing a few of my favorite past conversations on Tuesdays. This one was a lifelong dream for me: getting to talk to  DEVO 's  Gerald V. Casale  about their body of work--a band whose musical and visual identity showed teenage me that it was o.k. to be different, weird, and skeptica...

This week, I am joined by  Jake Fogelnest , who at the age of 14 hosted  MTV's Squirt TV,  and later collaborated with  Will Ferrell, Sarah Silverman & Billy Eichner.   We take a look at the  Bee Gees/Peter Frampton  mess-a-thon theatrical feature  SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND . We also discuss how Jake turned his childhood cable access sho...

Hey everyone...in honor of our upcoming 100th episode (!!!), I'll be occasionally re-releasing some of my favorite past conversations. And why not start with a bang: Actor, Musician & Director Paddy Considine on his favorite band Guided By Voices and their documentary Watch Me Jumpstart (Episode 34 which originally aired on May 2nd, 2024). Now that you've all caught up with Paddy and the rest...

This week, I'm joined by  JoE Silva , the author of The Minimoog Book   and host of  Athens 411 ,  who chose the film  Moog  to discuss. We talk about how JoE first met  Robert Moog  and then went on a 14 year journey to write  The Minimoog Book ,  Rush 's  Geddy Lee  writing the preface to the book, the incredible stories surrounding&nbs...

This week I’m joined by  Stephen Chung , the director of  IT’S ALL GONNA BREAK -- a documentary about the band  BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE . We discuss Stephen’s decades-long friendship with Broken Social Scene and his fly-on-the-wall documentation of the band, how they all met, why the band did not want an earlier version of their documentary to come out, Stephen’s breaking out of hi...

A Very Opinionated Look At URGH! A MUSIC WAR--CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: An interview with Lesley Woods of Au Pairs Hello everyone! This week, I’m releasing this extra-special episode from the  Revolutions Per Movie Patreon  for everyone to hear! It's an incredible conversation with a complete legend— Lesley Woods of Au Pairs , who has also been an immigration lawyer in the UK for over t...

This week I am joined by musician, author, and songwriter  Ezra Furman , who picked the  Kathleen Hanna  documentary  THE PUNK SINGER  to discuss.  We talk about Ezra’s process of writing her lyrics, the headspace of making a record, the directness of Kathleen Hanna’s lyrics, and how her lyrical approach changed from  Bikini Kill  to  Le Tigre , th...

This week’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience on Feb. 7th, 2025, at Cinema 21 in Portland, Oregon. Beloved composer, musician, and iconic actor PAUL WILLIAMS joined us to discuss the film we screened that night,  PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE,  as well as his impressive and long career in film and music.  Paul talks about his experiences working with director Brian De Palma...

For today’s episode of Revolutions Per Movie’s  Pavement Week  (Episode #6 out #5…right?), I am joined by actor  Michael Esper  who played the lead role (Essem) in the musical  Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical  that is featured in the new documentary  Pavements .  We discuss how Michael first got involved in the project and whether or not he felt...

For the finale of Revolutions Per Movie’s Pavement Week , we are joined by Pavement’s Spiral Stairs (aka Scott Kannberg ) & Robert Greene , editor/producer of the new documentary Pavements . We discuss its kaleidoscopic storytelling, which weaves together a star-studded biopic, a traditional band documentary, a Pavement museum, and the Pavement jukebox musical all into a feature-length film. W...

This week we continue Pavement Week on Revolutions Per Movie with episodes celebrating Pavement to the max.   For today’s episode (#4 of 5) we talk to filmmaker  Alex Ross Perry  who directed the new kaleidoscopic documentary  Pavements .  We discussed Alex’s formative years working at the legendary Kim’s Video in NYC, how Alex broke away from traditional music d...

This week, we will be celebrating  Pavement Week  on  Revolutions Per Movie  with episodes that are Pavement to the max!!!   For today’s episode (#3 of 5) we talk to multi-instrumentalist of  Pavement, The Minders, Pedro The Lion & Wild Flag ,  Rebecca Clay Cole !!!  We discuss her time in Pavement and her varied musical life, and she also&nbsp...

This week, we will be celebrating Revolutions Per Movie’s Pavement Week with episodes that are Pavement to the max. For today’s episode (#2 of 5), we present an encore airing of our discussion with the director & producers of the amazing  Gary Young/Pavement  documentary ‘ LOUDER THAN YOU THINK,'  which is one of the best music documentaries I have seen in recent years...

'SLOW CENTURY’ & ‘PAVEMENTS’ w/ LANCE BANGS (PART 1 of PAVEMENT WEEK) This week, we will be celebrating  Pavement Week  on  Revolutions Per Movie  with episodes that are Pavement to the max!!!   For today’s episode (#1 of 5) we start off with a bang with director/producer  LANCE BANGS  ( Slint: Breadcrumb Trail, Jackass, Pavement: Slow Century, Pavements...

On this week’s episode, I am joined by Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter and collaborator with LEONARD COHEN, PERLA BATALLA, who discusses her good friend/creative muse and her thoughts on the film 'LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN.' We discuss Perla’s childhood and escape from her family into a life in music, her Mom’s record store, working for T.V. legend Norman Lear documenting The Jeffersons &...

On this week’s episode, I'm joined by filmmaker Jim Hickcox ( Slow Creep, Soft Matter ), who brings us the greatest zombie/rock film of all time,  WILD ZERO, starring Guitar Wolf! !!  We discuss the Japanese garage rock scene and Guitar Wolf’s stature within it, what is Jet Rock N’ Roll, how Guitar Wolf made the loudest record ever recorded, Bass Wolf & Drum Wolf’s non-stop...

This week, I'm joined by  Jenny Don’t & Kelly Halliburton  ( Jenny Don’t & The Spurs & Pierced Arrows ), who discuss their bandmates/dear friends  Fred & Toody Cole  and the documentary  UNKNOWN PASSAGE: THE DEAD MOON STORY. We also discuss how my very first Country/Western show was seeing Fred & Toody’s band Western Front, Jenny and Kelly’s wildly...

On this week’s episode, we are joined by  Johnny Echols , who was part of one of the greatest bands of all time, the 60's band  Love . We are also joined by  Mike Randle , co-founder of the band  Baby Lemonade  and  Love w/ Johhny Echols , who, alongside Love singer/songwriter  Arthur Lee  & Echols, helped find new audiences for Love's music before...