Mali’s Songhoy Blues Are Ready for Their Music Film Close-Up
Tweet Songhoy Blues If there’s a silver lining in the horrific cloud of Mali’s sectarian strife, it might be Songhoy Blues. This four-piece band is explicitly a product of the conflict, which saw...
View ArticleSXSW 2015: The Music Films
Tweet Landfill Harmonic, one of 16 music documentary world premieres coming to SXSW in March. For hardcore music documentary fans and followers, the unveiling of South by Southwest’s feature film...
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Tweet Where:Austin, Texas When: March 13-21 What: AKA South by Southwest® (or just South By™), but if you visit this site you probably know that. And you know what it is, and that it goes a long way...
View ArticleCIMMFest 2015: A Temple of Music Film
Tweet Shake the Dust This post has been changed to reflect CIMMFest program updates. Befitting its big-shouldered hometown, the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival has unveiled a...
View ArticleThe Aggregate: Who Were They?
Tweet Tender chunklets of music documentary news from the week past. Nothing like a rollicking untold rock ‘n’ roll story: 14-plus months after premiering and Sundance, the documentary Lambert &...
View ArticleThey Will Have to Kill Us First: Tales of Musical Exile from Mali
Tweet Malian guitarist Moussa Sidi in They Will Have to Kill Us First. Update: They Will Have to Kill Us First won the prize for best feature documentary at the CIMMFest No. 7 awards, presented April...
View ArticleFilm Fest Catch-up: And the Winners Were …
Tweet Kidd Life: a jury favorite at Turin's Seeyousound music film festival We’ve been remiss lately in keeping up with the award winners at the numerous springtime film festivals that pay attention...
View ArticleICYMI: Green Day Issuing ‘Idiot’ Documentary, In-Edit to Honor Tony Palmer
Tweet We aggregate the music documentary news so you don’t have to. There’s been a lot of Green Day on the silver screen lately. 2012 brought ¡Cuatro!, about the making of the pop-punk threesome’s...
View ArticleICYMI: ‘Amy’ Team Prepping Oasis Doc, Two Music Films Up for IDA Top Prize
Tweet Music documentary news you maybe missed: Oasis are overrated, OK? There, we said it. A pretty good rock ‘n’ roll combo transmogrified by laddish swagger, juicy sibling rivalry, admittedly...
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