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A documentary on the music, performers, attitude and distinctive look that made up punk rock.
Punk: Attitude
Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video.
Notebook
David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live...
1991: The Year Punk Broke
A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current...
Kill Your Idols
A documentary about saxophonist David S. Ware.
David S. Ware
A compilation of 24 music videos by Sonic Youth ranging from 1990 to 2002. Collaborators include Harmony Korine, Spike Jonze, Todd Haynes, Mark...
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock movements in New York & England, the underground...
25 Years of Punk
Enjoy Sonic Youth’s full From The Basement set! Track listing: 01:26 - The Sprawl 10:45 - Incinerate 16:15 - Hey Joni 20:42 - Jams Run...
Sonic Youth: From The Basement
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's...
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous...
Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a...
I Need That Record!
Sonic Youth's Blood on the Beach is comprised of two shows and interview clips recorded in November 1985 in Brighton, UK.
Blood on the Beach
Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and...
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Gary Young, drummer for indie-rock icons Pavement, injected a wild-card unpredictability into the band's breakthrough, lo-fi sound. But those same...
Louder Than You Think
Day Trip Maryanne captures the collaboration between legendary sound sculptor Maryanne Amacher and guitarist Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth at her...
Day Trip Maryanne
Christian demonstrates some techniques and preparations and meditates on the turntable, improvisation, and the difference between the sonic and the...
Record Player: Christian Marclay
A collection of short films and music videos from independent filmmaker David Markey, from 1974 to 2004.
Cut Shorts
Lance Bangs interviews Thurston Moore about the Ecstatic Peace Archives.
Ecstatic Peace Archives
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia...
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is included on the DVD of the 2004 film KILL YOUR IDOLS.
Kill Your Idols: More.
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
Llik Your Idols
Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic...
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Sonic Youth's 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France's largest rock music festivals.
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which...
Scala!!!
Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself,...
Weatherman '69
Filmmaker, illustrator and musician Dame Darcy's weekly television collaboration with Blessed Elysium's Lisa Hammer aired on New York's Public Access...
Turn of the Century
Formed in 1978 by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, and still actively playing and recording today, Redd Kross are the ultimate rock and roll lifers....
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
Ornette Coleman is always asked, “what is Harmolodics?” Harmolodics is the term he coined to describe his music and his philosophy of...
An Introduction to Harmolodics
Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment...
Death Valley '69
Filmed during their 2005 reunion tour, this release captures the sonic guitar assaults of Dinosaur Jr. onstage, playing the songs "Gargoyle," "Little...
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone...
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginnings in San Pedro, California, to their demise...
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
First DVD release from this refreshingly basic UK music programme puts the music in the foreground with an impressive role call of acts. With sparse...
From The Basement
"Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)" examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal...
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern...
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Cassette inventor Lou Ottens digs through his past to figure out why the audiotape won't die. Rock veterans join a legion of young bands releasing...
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Billy Ruane, storied impresario of the 90s Boston indie music scene. Billy promoted shows and inspired cult-like followings of bands by the likes of...
The Road to Ruane
Don't Bring A Dog shows a part of the New York underground music scene - rooted in the early eighties - existing apart from MTV and billboard charts....
Don't Bring A Dog
Thurston on a bender. Shot one day during a break on the Ragged Glory Tour. Hip Hopped-up NYC roadie Maurice Menares plays the psychotic...
Rap Damage
Starring Vehicle for Free Kitten. Kim Gordon, Julie Cafritz, & Mark Ibold lounge on suburban lawns, jamming a guitar effects box & Japanese beat...
Grunge Pedal
In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track...
Goo
Explores the seminal music magazine from its 1969 launch in Detroit to the untimely death of its publisher Barry Kramer in 1981.
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley...
The Hardcore Collection
Video Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern, Sonic Youth, White Flag, Psycho Daisies, Charlie...
Sublapse Video Mag 1
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...
365 Day Project
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...
Blank City
Anthony Kiedis and Sofia Coppola try to escape the fashion influence of Debbie Harry.
Changing Fashions
British rock icon John Lydon and fellow bandmates recall the years they spent performing as Public Image Ltd.
The Public Image Is Rotten
Documentary that gives a voice to the percentage of youth that were outcasts/non-conformists in the 90's. Interviews many famous musicians and other...
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish...
Teenage Superstars
Documentary tracing the existence of noted rock band Pavement from 1989 to their final performance in late 1999.
Pavement: Slow Century
From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula....
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Dandelion Records and DVD's present Probably the nearest you will ever get to an official documentary on Mark E Smith and The Fall. Put together over...
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion...
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
This documentary tells the story of Mudhoney from their very beginnings, to following them on their recent world tour and everything in between....
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
Promotional music video collection
Sonic Youth - Goo
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the...
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Documentary about rock pioneer Roky Erickson, detailing his rise as a psychedelic hero, his lengthy institutionalization, his descent into poverty...
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the...
Desolation Center
Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this...
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...
Put More Blood Into the Music
A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full at the ABC in Glasgow in 2007.
Daydream Nation
From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their odds-defying current status as one of the most...
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in...
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural...
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, and Lou Reed roam the streets of Los Angeles searching for James Woods.
Lou Believers
A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth.
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.
Noise
A video documenting Sonic Youth's performance at the Gila Monster Jamboree. Taking place in a remote location in the Mojave Desert, this was the...
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to...
Thick Air
Over 5 hours of full-length interviews with Nirvana, Tommy Chong, Sonic Youth, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Ron Jeremy, and many more. Includes videos of...
Welcome to My Castle!
Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
The American indie rock band “Dinosaur Jr.” is a radical group with an unmistakeable sound. The film tells the story the three...
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate...
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your...
The Sparks Brothers
Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and...
New York Rock at the BBC
Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director...
Submit to Me
Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded the earnest hardcore classic "Skins, Brains, &...
Skeeno H.C. Rules
Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed...
Pavements
The final Sonic Youth concert
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
The band performs at the Free Jazz Festival
Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000