REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

This week on Revolutions Per Movie, my guests are the two driving forces behind CHIC-A-GO-GO (the 3-decade-long Chicago cable-access dance show for all ages): Jake Austen & Miss Mia Park !!! We discuss their pre-Chic-A-Go-Go lives including Jake's zine Rocktober & Mia's life in rock bands, Phil Milstein (President of the Velvet Underground Appreciation Society) turning Jake onto th...

Welcome to an ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vaults. As we near Halloween, it feels appropriate to revisit my first Halloween episode, which focused on the THIS IS GWAR documentary. But this is also a fascinating episode because this is before my guest, Chaki , and I knew we would become Urgh! A Music War soulmates (with our A Very Opinionated Look At Urgh P...

This week on Revolutions Per Movie, I had the pleasure of having three souls who not only have swirled in and around the world of the musical/film/performance collective, Elephant 6 , but who were also principal in the finishing of the final The Olivia Tremor Control record, The Same Place , completed 27 years after the release of their last record. We discuss their entry point into the world of E...

THE PRODUCTION, ARRANGEMENTS, SCORING & FILM SCORES OF GEORGE MARTIN w/ Brian Kehew & Kevin Ryan This week I am joined by the authors of two of the greatest books on music ever ( George Martin: The Scores & Recording The Beatles, which received a 5-star review in MOJO ): Brian Kehew & Kevin Ryan! They are also two incredible musicians, producers & engineers who have worked with...

My guest this week is comedian, actor & musician Jon Daly (Kroll Show, Fallout, Comedy Bang Bang, Curb Your Enthusiasm), who picked the skin-crawling, jaw-dropping documentary History Of The Eagles. We also discuss Jon's intersection between music and comedy, how his Red Hot Chili Peppers Super Bowl parody composition fooled the universe into thinking it was real, growing up in Pittsburgh,...

Welcome to an ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vaults. What can we say DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM EVER but yes...please listen to my guest, Grammy-nominated archivist Andy Zax, tell you why!!! (Episode 27 originally aired on Mar 14th 2024) ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES: This week, we discuss a music film that my guest, Andy Zax (a Grammy-nominated archivist and the Music Ge...

This week I'm joined by Ilya Chaiken , the director of Pretty Ugly: The Story Of The Lunachicks & Theo Kogan & Sydney 'Squid' Silver of The Lunachicks !!! We discuss the experience of having not only a movie about your lives come to fruition but a book as well, their dreams of each having solo albums like Kiss when the band first started, the incredible story of Thurston Moore and Kim Gord...

Yes! It took a member of Mission of Burma to finally pick a Beatles film to discuss, three years into the podcast! Totally honored to have the person behind so much of my favorite sonic wizardry, Roger Clark Miller, on Revolutions Per Movie. We discuss the mysterious lore behind the Horrible Truth About Burma live LP and how it might be the high water mark of their tape manipulator (Martin Sw...

Welcome to an ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vaults. This was an early episode of Revolutions Per Movie with one of my favorite documentary filmmakers, David Weissman. Through his hard work and artistry, he made the story of The Cockettes available to future generations of free-spirited weirdos to drink from forever. (Episode 12 originally aired on Dec. 9th...

I'm honored to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of Revolutions Per Movie with two legends-- King Coffey of Butthole Surfers & filmmaker Tom Stern ( Freaked , The Idiot Box ), who directed the new documentary BUTTHOLE SURFERS: THE HOLE TRUTH & NOTHING BUTT. We discuss the complicated relationship with Texas and what about that push/pull creates singular artistic statements, how Tom met the ban...

Robert Pollard: "Richard Davies is one of the last great songwriters on planet Earth." Alright…this is a big one for me, as one of my long-time musical heroes, Richard Davies of The Moles & Cardinal , joins me on this week's episode to let me discuss his body of work as well as his music film pick, The Wrecking Crew !!!! We discuss why no two of his albums are the same (down to multiple re-iss...

Welcome to an ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vaults. There may have been no more cut-through-the-bullshit guest than Perla Batalla!!! Getting to discuss her legacy as well as her lovely creative partnership with Leonard Cohen was sparky as hell...and I loved her critical eye and honesty on a film she's a part of (LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN). Anyone who is c...

My guest this week is Mike Sacks (NY Times bestselling author and creator of weirdo audio projects featuring Jon Hamm , John Waters , Bob Odenkirk , and Laraine Newman ) who picked Jesus Christ Superstar ! We also talk about misremembering scenes from movies we watched as kids, trucker films of the 70s, Paul Williams , Mike's novelizations of "movies" such as the grunge classic Slouchers , working...

My guest this week is Emil Amos (musician: Grails, Holy Sons, Om, Jandek & podcast: Drifter's Sympathy) who surprised me by picking the Paul Simon narrative film One Trick Pony (which also features the mind-bending acting debut of Lou Reed ). We also discuss the naivety of thinking certain artists were bigger culturally than they were, Lou Barlow 7"s and Guided By Voices, how Emil goes about c...

Hey everyone...welcome to our bi-monthly ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vault! I love this episode because my initial experience of seeing this upsetting, darkly funny film (by the director of The Brutalist) was completely thrown overboard due to my guest Logan Lynn's harmful experience within the music industry when he was younger (which is the subject of h...

My guest this week is Evan Minsker (Critic/Journalist for Pitchfork & the heart behind the amazing punk newsletter See/Saw ) who (...wait for it...) picked a very punk film: Autonomy And Deliberation , by a very Australian AND very punk band The UV Race. And although it has never been publicly released, the director and the band let us watch it so we can discuss it for you! Got it yet?!?!? We...

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of Revolutions Per Movie.  Thank you for supporting what we’re doing…it means a lot. We were in the process of releasing our recent conversation about John Curry and his band Flyboys this week when we heard from Lisa Fancher about his passing. So we've decided to make this episode of EXPLORING THE AXIS: THE ORAL HISTORY OF FRONTIER RECORDS w/ Lisa...

My guest this week is Tony Rettman (author of the books NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990; Straight Edge: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History & Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985 ), who chose to discuss the incredible music doc We Are Twisted F***ing Sister!   We talk about the NYC hardcore scene, suburban NJ wise-ass punk bands, the letter that Henry Rollins wr...

Welcome to an ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vaults. ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES: This week, we talked to multiple Grammy winner Cheryl Pawelski (Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos; Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Deluxe, Omnivore Records) about Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story. Besides her stories of working with Stax and their artists, we d...

My guest this week is Josh Kanto r (Organist for The Boston Red Sox ; keyboardists w/ The Dream Syndicate , The Split Squad & The Baseball Project ), who picked the Stevie Wonder LP, film score and theatrical film, The Secret Life Of Plants . We discuss Josh playing with Mavis Staples and Peter Buck , his mentorship from the legendary Clem Burke and playing in a band with him, the influence of...

This week, we present to you the recording of the sold-out show of Revolutions Per Movie Live w/ Jay Ferguson & Chris Murphy of Sloan (Recorded Live at Paradise Theatre in Toronto on March 22nd 2026)! Enjoy as we leap through the incredible 35-year history of Sloan's music videos, from their first indie video for "Underwhelmed", to their series of movie trailers for their latest LP, Based On T...

For this week's Encore Presentation of Revolutions Per Movie, I bring you my 4th episode ever (just listen to my youthful, nervous voice doing the intro here...ha!). I was fortunate enough to discuss one of my favorite music films about one of my favorite bands with one of my favorite people, Nick Agular (Frankie And The Witch Fingers, Mike Watt) . Enjoy! (Episode 4 originally aired on Oct 5th 202...

This week I'm joined by the legendary Sally Timms & J on Langford of The Mekons to discuss not only their music documentary The Revenge Of The Mekons but the iconic film Trances about the Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane (which was the first film Martin Scorsese restored as part of his World Cinema Project). We discuss the mixed feelings both bands had regarding being the subject of a documentary...

This week, I'm joined by an absolute music video legend, Graeme Whifler , who created iconic work with The Residents, Devo, Sparks, Tuxedomoon, MX-80 Sound, 45 Grave, Oingo Boingo, Red Hot Chili Peppers & Renaldo & The Loaf , to name a few. Get ready for some of the most hilarious, dark, and mind-bending stories that have ever been unleashed on the show. We discuss Graeme’s jawdroppin...

Welcome to an ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vaults. In celebration of HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT 's 40th ANNIVERSARY celebration, I bring you one of the most joyous Revolutions Per Movies episodes of all time--my deep dive into that amazing doc with WILCO's MIKAEL JORGENSON & JEFF KRULIK--The Co-Creator of HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT. And remember that punk ro...