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A Legendary New Orleans Rock Club Stars in a Locally Produced Documentarynew

Before the members of the Grateful Dead were so famously arrested by New Orleans police on January 30, 1970, the band — along with Fleetwood Mac and The Flock — christened the opening night of The Warehouse, a bare-bones, 30,000-square-foot music venue on Tchoupitoulas Street.
Gambit  |  Alex Woodward  |  12-16-2009  |  Music

Watch Wieden+Kennedy's Portland Music Documentarynew

Anytime you make a documentary on the Portland music scene, a few common topics are brought up. Portland is cheap. Portland has lots of basements. Portland is creative. And, of course, the biggie: it rains ALL THE TIME. But there are a lot of stories that haven’t been told.
Willamette Week  |  Michael Mannheimer  |  12-09-2009  |  Music

Bad Things Happen When Fans Get Behind the Cameranew

Digital democratization of the means of film production has brought us to the point where every subculture on the planet seems to have generated its own documentary. Formlessness and boosterism afflict all of these films to some damaging degree, but Until the Light Takes Us is in a class of its own for wasted cinematic potential.
Chicago Reader  |  Cliff Doerksen  |  07-27-2009  |  Reviews

The Belated Glory of Anvilnew

The recent success of the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil has brought the mostly obscure, longtime metal band Anvil more mainstream attention than they've ever enjoyed.
Boston Phoenix  |  Daniel Brockman  |  07-23-2009  |  Profiles & Interviews

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