REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

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 also discuss entering competitions when you're a kid, how Rheostatics have changed over their 45-year history and how the geography of Canada shaped their music, Dave's parents talking to him about the evils of Punk Rock, Stompin' Tom Conners, how Canadian record labels want bands to strip the Canadian aspects from them, the film/book/lp Whale Music, signing to Sire Records and working with Seymour Stein, Dave watching Cotton Candy when it first aired on TV, Charles Martin Smith and Clint Howard’s amazingly honest nerdy turns in this film, Kiss Meets The Phantom, how TV started competing with films in the late 70s, the pacing of a made-for-TV movie, old teenagers in films, teenage rejection and self-sabotage, being "PUNK" on TV, having a band logo before you even have a band, the brand of Power Pop in this film, dancing in movie theater aisles, the uncomfortable strip poker scene, building bands’ mythology in your head, music that scared you as a kid, being hypnotized by commercials as a kid, Ron Howard's directing style, a great story about Frank Sinatra & The Cramps and more! So let's head to the mall to play in the battle of the bands on this week's Revolutions Per Movie!DAVE BIDINI: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/2290/dave-bidiniRHEOSTATICS: https://www.sixshooterrecords.com/artists/rheostaticsWEST END PHOENIX: https://www.westendphoenix.com/REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!TIP JAR:ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovieSOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 the magazine made me feel smarter by reading it, the wild highs and lows of publishing Trouser Press, making mistakes in journalism, writing a letter to Pete Townshend and the reply that came back in the mail, how 70s rock journalism still held power in the culture of the time, the Devo/William Burroughs interview, how they got difficult interviewees to open up to their writers, how the magazine become an obligation rather than an opportunity over the years, the hardcore punk movement, how and why the magazine stopped publication, MTV's influence on music journalism, Laurence Harvey’s strange and powerful performance in Expresso Bongo, how young Cliff Richard was in this film, the incredible opening title sequence of the film, how the film pushes the cultural boundaries for young people in the late 50s, the British kitchen-sink drama movement, how the film was originally a West End musical and the differences between the two, how sleazy and risqué the film is for its time, The Shadows, how exploitative the British rock management world was, the threat of the 50s teenager, the alternate ending of the film and so much more.So let's spin in circles while shattering our espresso cups on the ground on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!TROUSER PRESS BOOKS (you can read the entire Trouser Press Magazine run in their archives!):trouserpressbooks.comREVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 most powerful (upsetting and darkly funny) shows I'd ever witnessed. A band that is notoriously difficult to pin down was explored beautifully with Stand By For Failure, so I was excited to get into the weeds (and we do!).(EPISODE 55 originally aired Sept 26th 2024)ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES:This week, we are joined by documentary filmmaker RYAN WORLSEY to discuss her film STAND BY FOR FAILURE: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT NEGATIVLAND. We discuss how Ryan was introduced to the world of Negativland and what she thought of it, how she decided the best way to tell their complicated but surpringly emotional story, the fair use doctrine and copyright law, are Negativland really a band, David Wills (aka The Weatherman) and his astonishing talents & laughter through it all, Negativland's origin story, how Negativland’s current live show We Can Really Feel LIke We’re Here might be their most powerful work to date, the band signing and then getting sued by SST Records, their long-running radio show Over The Edge, what Negativland did with band member Don Joyce’s ashes after his passing, can you still culture jam today, plunderphonics, how Negativland’s perceptions of the world are formed through their music and then mirrored back to us, Richard Lyons' and his alter egos, the U2 lawsuit against the band, the majesty of Casey Casem swearing, the resilience of the band through all their hardships, seeing the inside of The Residents’ recording studio in the film, the Christianity Is Stupid murder myth, how artist’s are still getting ripped off, what it’s like being the subject of a documentary, where Ryan & Negativland stand on AI, and the cultural desert that is the suburbs.Is there any escape from noise? Find out on this week’s episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!RYAN WORSLEY:http://pool-food.com/failure/NEGATIVLAND:https://negativland.com/https://negativland.com/negativland-documentaryREVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movies releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 LP, punk rock mix tapes, touring with Xiu Xiu and going 'method' on that tour, David making his early records in basement bedrooms on 4-track cassette recorders, embarrassing imperfections in music, an early eureka moment while opening for Broken Social Scene, working solo vs. collaborating with others, the different modes of Neil Young, John Cale’s touch and attack, how they did the vocal gymnastics live with Bjork, Einstein On The Beach and Phillip Glass, slowing down songs to half speed, being fans of people you collaborate with, the soundtrack to Rumblefish, David's early work on Ochi and the film's 10-year gestation period, vocal hocketing, creating the creatures’ voices in the film, how it feels to hear your music played by an orchestra, my video store colliding with David creating his 1st record while sleeping in a hallway in Portland, and more...So come find out if I put a bag over my head for asking naive questions on this episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!DAVID LONGSTRETH/DIRTY PROJECTORS:https://www.davidlongstreth.com/https://www.dirtyprojectors.net/REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 also discuss Beth’s incredible origin story working with Jonathan Richman and her time in The Modern Lovers during which she suddenly quit her job for a life in music, touring with Jonathan, the story of Chris working with Jonathan Richman for a charity album/documentary, what her upcoming Duplex Planet documentary will be like, the blessing and curse of doing a hour-long doc for PBS, rockabilly influences in the punk underground, how Beth puts her films together, Beth working with Wanda Jackson, The Collins Kids, Brenda Lee & Janice Martin (The Female Elvis), the stage mom factor within the Rockabilly music scene, how Beth gets her candid interviews, Jack White, Robert Oermann & Mary Bufwack's excitable interviews about Rockabilly in the doc, The Sing Along With Mitch albums, how Brenda Lee tried to get Columbia Records to sign The Beatles, the incredible stories of Big Al Dowling (piano player with Wanda Jackson who had one of the first integrated bands in the U.S.), the gender fluidity of many of the rockabilly artists, how documentary filmmaking has changed for Beth over the years and so much more.So come shake a chicken in the middle of the room on this week's Revolutions Per Movie!WELCOME TO THE CLUB--THE WOMEN OF ROCKABILLY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nihZl9Ni-Fw&t=856sBETH HARRINGTON: https://www.bethharrington.com/DUPLEX PLANET DOC: https://www.beyondduplexplanet.com/BETH W/ JONATHAN RICHMAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf4NSNw_U4I&list=PLE9wKImo1JY6wdkL_W_aZmqutEs-ZSSr4&index=7REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.