X: The Unheard Music
A fittingly ambitious film for a fittingly artistic and poetic band.
Tag: American Hardcore
American Hardcore
The net result of plowing through a weighty tome like this is a sense of awe at how a bunch of kids created their own culture whole cloth, like the music industry on a Utopian, communal, microcosmic level.
Until The Light Takes Us
A tangle of corpse paint, murky ideologies, and total atonal extremity, this is music for the committed outsider.
You Weren’t There
In the near future, there will be a documentary produced on every single punk scene or band from the late ’70s to mid ’80s. And that’s just fine.
Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp
Matthew Moyer basks in the ramshackle glory of Sacred Harp singing, the oldest, and perhaps most punk, American religious music. This new documentary explains it all.
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