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Plus: Willie Nelson, Roger McGuinn of the Byrds Sorry, Adam Duritz. You don t get to be . But guess what?

In Velvet Goldmine/Far From Heaven director Todd Haynes forthcoming feature I m Not There, six other people do-- including Richard Gere, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, and even Cate Blanchett. Each plays a Dylan of a different period in the experimental flick, presently in post-production and tentatively slated for release later this year.
A lot of fine folks who aren t playing Dylan get to do the next best thing-- cover the man s timeless songs for the film s soundtrack.

While details have not yet been completely confirmed, we do know , , and -- with , , and the Byrds -- are among the acts giving it the old Dylan try.
According to Rollingstone.com, Stephen Malkmus takes on Dylan s Maggie s Farm and Ballad of a Thin Man -- with Dylan bandmember Tony Garnier in his band and Sonic Youth s Lee Ranaldo in the producer s chair.

Judging from a post on the Malkmus website, it seems the indie icon s cover will appear in the film itself with an actor mouthing the words: Maybe we arent supposed to talk about this too much. but one of our favorite movie stars inhabits senor jick s voice to perfection, claims the Malkmus site.
The Hold Steady, meanwhile, take on B-side Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?

, according to a post on sound engineer s website (intense high five to reader Kaley Evans for the tip!). Mustachioed Hold Steady keyboardist confirmed the band s participation in I m Not There on his own website.

Calexico contribute a rendition of Street Legal s Se or (Tales of Yankee Power) , joined by folk legend Willie Nelson and flamenco guitarist Salvador Duran. The band performed and briefly discussed their cover on Minnesota Public Radio last September. Check out the video .

Finally, in an August 2006 with The Daily Californian, Joey Burns of Calexico mentioned My Morning Jacket s Jim James had lent vocals to another Calexico-backed I m Not Here Dylan cover (apparently set to appear in a Richard Gere scene), and that Calexico had recorded tracks for Roger McGuinn for a third soundtrack contribution.
Contrary to early reports, Jack White will not be participating, according to his publicist. Other rumored participants include PJ Harvey, Aimee Mann, and Michael Stipe.

Clipse, Mos Def, Chuck D Featured in PBS Documentary Not that we re displeased by any means, but we never thought someone would get prominent members of the rap community like Clipse and 50 Cent to go on camera and discuss issues like sexism, violence, homophobia, and masculinity for a documentary about gender roles in hip hop. And then get that documentary to air on . But that s just what has done.

And if a member of Kid n Play can be a , why not?
In , which premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, Hurt examines these issues through interviews with artists, activists, authors, and executives. In addition to Clipse, 50 Cent, and a whole host of scholars, interviewees include Chuck D, Mos Def, Russell Simmons, KRS-One, Busta Rhymes, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez s M-1, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Doug E.

Fresh, D12, cultural critic Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, and former Vibe editor-in-chief Emil Wilbekin. Hurt also interviewed several young women at Spelman College as well as aspiring MCs and hip hop fans across the country in order to get an interesting cross-section of opinions.

On the PBS website, Hurt gives an idea of the kinds of questions he asked: What do today s rap lyrics tell us about the collective consciousness of black men and women from the hip hop generation? How do black men feel about the representations of manhood in hip hop? What does homoeroticism in hip hop media look like?

It s a very interesting subject for a loving critique of hip hop music and culture, and we re marking our calendars for February 20, when the film will air on the Terrence Howard-hosted from 10:00-11:00 p.m. Check your local listings .

It's like Footloose. I come into town, liberate the feet of the teens. --David Berman Just over a year ago, the Red Sea parted and hell froze over as the once reclusive David Berman and his announced their .

The whirlwind inaugural jaunt, 15 years in the making, put Berman and band before sell-out crowds across the North America and Europe-- including a headlining spot in front of 15,000+ Pitchfork Festival attendees last summer-- and even took these wandering Jews all the way to Israel.
Director captures the Middle Eastern leg of the Jews tour in the new documentary , following Berman, his wife Cassie, and the rest of the band-- keyboardist Tony Crow, drummer Brian Kotzur, and guitarists Peyton Pinkerton and William Tyler-- around at two Tel Aviv gigs and a trip to Jerusalem. The 51-minute film, edited by Jane Rizzo and produced by Matthew Robison for Nashville s Walter O.

Robison Productions, premieres at in Austin (March 9-17, exact screenings TBA).
Silver Jew then hits up the (April), the (April 23), and the . Plans for overseas screenings and a DVD release are in the works.

So what can fans expect? As Tully told Pitchfork, It s a hard one to describe, because it incorporates so many different elements. Yes, it s a tour document, and, yes, it s a travelogue, but ultimately it s the story of an individual who has found peace within himself, with the help of newfound faith, a loving wife, and creativity.

If you re hoping for a history of the band type of thing, that s not what this is. Sorry, all you Behind the Music junkies.
If Tully s name sounds familiar, you may recall he directed the for Tanglewood Numbers I m Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You , also shot in Jerusalem.

His first feature film, , debuted at SXSW last year.
As for the Silver Jews themselves, they re presently winterizing following , as David perpares to write the next album.
Now has one more activity to help him procrastinate the recording/releasing of Detox: making movies.

The good doctor and have agreed to a multiyear feature deal, with Dre producing dark comedies before moving onto other areas, such as horror, according to Variety.com. No word yet on whether or not he will journey into anything a little less morbid.

Dre has created a film company called Crucial Films ( ahead!) to accommodate his new position, and he will deal heavily with the music aspects of his films. Phillip Atwell, the director of many Aftermath , will co-produce with Dre, and it was New Line s Toby Emmerich who approached him a year ago about the move to movies.

He said, I want to be your . There was nothing more he needed to say, Dre said to Variety. But doesn t Dre already have a Jimmy Iovine?

recently told MTV News UK that they would love to record an r b album with the producer, but with this deal in place, we assume they ll get about the same treatment he gave . Continue editing the film version of with Charles Atlas. Wonder how we will cut over sixty hours of touring and interview footage.

Wish conductor Gavin Bryars and the singers and musicians of Opera North the best in their performances of for one of Shakespeare s sonnets. Send a thank-you note to the Royal Shakespeare Company, and try to make it to the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon for one of the concerts if I can.
with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra.

Not sure if Muhly s directing or not, but collaborating with him for this show sure was swell.
New albums! Buy Bj o rk s , which features my duet with her, and continue recording my third album with the Johnsons.

Try to expand upon my current theme: ghosts and nature.
are no strangers to the film music game. In 2006 alone, the band provided music for Half Nelson and Snow Cake.

They re continuing the trend in 2007 with their score for , which on February 8 will open the Panorama program of the . Ellen Page (Hard Candy, X-Men: The Last Stand) plays the film s protagonist, Tracey Berkowitz. Vancouver author Maureen Medved wrote the screenplay based on her own book of the same title, a psychodrama about a girl looking for her lost brother who thinks he s a dog.

According to a press release, the film is a stirring tragic comedy and a 21st century Catcher in the Rye, told in a dazzling pop-art fashion. Though it sounds like a little bit like a Wes Anderson movie, it s actually Canadian director Bruce McDonald s project.
The February 8 screening will be the film s world premiere, and there is no word of future screenings or a commercial release of Broken Social Scene s score.

We ve been swooning over s concept-heavy albums (like last year s ) for a while now, but the British producer has not limited his output to just records. He has also been quietly recording film music for a decade now. will release a 17-track compilation of these pieces in April, simply titled Score.

Score collects Herbert s soundtrack work from seven films and one ballet piece, much of which was arranged by frequent collaborator Pete Wraight. The compilation includes his work with Blanca Li (the choreographer of Daft Punk s Around the World ) and Etienne Chatiliez, who Herbert is currently recording with at Abbey Road s Studio One for a new film. That project is, according to a press release, a musical called Agathe Clery, about a white racist who turns black.

could not be reached for comment.
True to his dedication to avoid the use of pre-set keyboard sounds, drum machines, or secondary musical sources, the sounds Herbert sampled for these pieces relate conceptually to the films for which they were recorded. Thus, in his rejected demos for Manolete (a bullfighting flick), he used the sound of blood and hair, dust and cloth, and even the bull itself to generate percussion.

And in his score for Set Boundaries , a live performance piece about borders, all the percussion [was] made out of bullets from RAF Tornado shells that were used in Iraq, and from Israeli bullets. I just wanted to reinforce the idea that national boundaries are defended with ruthless violence. Man, talk about commitment.

Still one of the hardest working men in indie showbiz, folk-pop institution has lined up a month-long set of live engagements across the U.S. The jaunt kicks off tonight with a string of four East Coast through the 27th, hitting fifteen more cities along the way.

features an original score by Richman, as well as his, er, riches: Jonathan While the film is currently without a release date, it s never too early people adrift in The City, and the choices they make in their search for meaning in the face of an increasingly oppressive and alienating society. Could be the next There s Something About Mary, who knows?
in a high, squeaky voice.

And nothing says best Easter gift ever like a DVD copy of the movie, !
family-friendly folks at s Home Vision imprint.
Directed, produced, shot, and edited by , A Family Movie (Low, Retribution Gospel Choir), author Rick Moody, and WNYC radio host For a guy who died over 32 years ago, has been awfully prolific these days.

Not content simply to loan his music to TV adverts and serve up 2004 s Made to Love Magic , Drake s ready to haunt emotional young people well into 2007.
First up, the deceased has a new LP on the way, tentatively due in late spring or early summer on Island UK. Titled Family Tree, the disc collects some extremely rare Drake material, none of which has been mastered or released officially.

While a few of the tunes have crept onto bootlegs, much will grace fans ears for the very first time. At least, that s what they tell us-- the tracklist is not yet confirmed.
Next, festival attendees will have several opportunities to indulge in their love for all things Drake.

The favorably-received 2000 documentary -- featuring Drake s actress sister Gabrielle Drake, his producer Joe Boyd, his arranger Robert Kirby, and Paul Weller-- will screen at the Convention Center Theater at 11 a.m. on March 17.

Once sufficiently depressed, drag your feet on over to ACC Room 15 at noon, where Gabrielle, Joe, and special guest Robyn Hitchcock will discuss Nick s legacy at a panel titled Nick Drake Remembered .
Then get a glimpse of the man himself at the A Place to Be photo exhibit, going down at the Habana Annex on March 17 from noon to 6 p.m.

This marks the first curated exhibit of Drake s official photographs, most of which were taken by the late British photographer Keith Morris. Several living musical acts will pay tribute to Drake throughout the day.
Finally: If you imbibe enough, you just might catch Drake s ghost playing a few tunes in between sets from Girl Talk and the Pipettes at .

P.S. , classical pianist/radio host reinterprets Drake favorites as part of , going down at UCLA s Royce Hall theater on February 16.

Expect O Riley s Drake takes to appear on Second Grace: The Music of Nick Drake, out this April via World Village/Harmonia Mundi.
So this guy-- wasn t he, like, some kind of crooner back in the day? And what s all this I keep hearing about his reclusiveness?

And why are folks so gosh darn excited about this album? It gives me the creeps, man!
Fear not, my inquisitive friend, for the answers to all these questions and more lie just beyond the theatre door.

(Hey, like, that rhymes.) Anyway, the documentary -- which charts the eclectic career of the enigmatic singer/ songwriter-cum-noisemaker-- will finally land in London film palaces this April.
The film also boasts quite an array of interviews with a first-rate collection of Walker devotees: David Bowie, members of Radiohead, Jarvis Cocker, Damon Albarn, Brian Eno, Johnny Marr, Alison Goldfrapp, the Divine Comedy s Neil Hannon, Richard Hawley, Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde, one-time One Dove chanteuse Dot Allison, Ute Lemper, and even Sting.

will deliver the Stephen Kijak-directed, Grant Gee DP d picture-- executive produced by Walker championeer Bowie-- to cinemas this spring. 30 Century Man is tentatively slated to open April 27 at London s , with openings in other theatres to follow.
It s unclear whether the film will cross the Atlantic anytime soon, but we have our fingers crossed a few dozen times over.

UPDATE: The doc will likely be screened at SXSW.
German audiences (and film nuts) are in luck, however: 30 Century Man will screen four times at the , which runs from February 8-18. For details, click .

Insert A Movie Script Ending joke here: singer/guitarist is making the leap from indie rock heartthrob to indie film heartthrob. He has a role in the big-screen adaptation of David Foster Wallace s short story collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, directed by , aka Jim from the American version of . Eagle-eyed reader Trey Burke alerted Pitchfork to the movie s , which lists Gibbard as playing a character named Harry.

Other cast members include a guy who was in Snakes on a Plane (Bobby Cannavale), a guy from Saturday Night Live (Will Forte), a girl from That 70s Show (Mila Kunis), Krasinski s Office coworker Rashida Jones, and Krasinski himself. Unfortunately, Gibbard s next film role will not be in a remake of the Cash Money Millionaires classic , in which he would be so, so great as Lil Wayne s character, Iceberg Shorty.
Look past the differences in skin color, social and geographical background, and diamonds worn per square inch of body surface, and you can see the common bond between Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David and : the sometimes crippling self-consciousness (don t forget about All Falls Down !

). And now West can add subject of his own HBO show to the list of similarities, as Billboard.com (via the Hollywood Reporter) reports that the MC and producer will be the subject of an HBO series developed by Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer and director Larry Charles.

Charles-- also the executive producer of Entourage s first two seasons and director of Borat-- will team with the project s other executive producers (West, superproducer Rick Rubin, and West s manager G Roberson) to present a day in [Kanye s] crazy, hectic life.
West is also still working on the feature film inspired by his music that he began last March in cooperation with and . He will act in the film, which will be a multi-perspective portrait of the U.

S. as seen through the eyes of West and several filmmakers. Grizzly Bear Yellow House Film Sync Discovered!

lion roar or something like that), and take copious amounts of drugs, you ll be amazed to find the two sync up rather tellingly. But what about the modern Seems Yellow House syncs cinematically after all, according embarks on a quest to save his little brother from a diabolical inventor, his midget wife, and their hapless cloned henchmen. Jeunet went on to direct Le which is probably your favorite film ever, as it should be.

characters in the film, songs begin and end in tandem with scenes, and protagonists, antagonists, and dramatic situations. Check out the from 12 Computers, who goes so far as to wager that the sync is House love to lost children in cities across the U.S.

and Canada beginning next month. Oh! And apparently if you play Yellow House backwards it will subliminally coerce you into killing Paul and worshipping Satan.

imprint-- and when we say world music, we don t mean that hokey, over-produced shit your yoga instructor listens to.
innermost nooks, crannies, and niches of exotic locales to bring us pampered peoples of the information age documents of raw, unadulterated foreign music One of those partners, world traveler and filmmaker Hisham Mayet, has contributed a number of DVDs to Sublime Frequencies eclectic output, including visual pieces exploring the regional musical treasures of Libya, Niger, and Thailand. Mayet s latest offering, , February.

If you missed it there, don t fret: the film screens in several U.S. cities beginning tomorrow night in New York.

According to a press release, Musical Brotherhoods performing and manifesting the ecstatic truth! screen). As a bonus, folks in Baltimore can catch Mayet s Niger: Magic and Ecstasy in the Sahel as well.

We might be going out on a limb here, but we re Here is part of the plot description for the forthcoming film , directed by Martin Hynes and starring Lou Taylor Pucci, Zooey Deschanel, and Jena Malone: Left with an aching instinctual itch to explore America after a traumatic loss, a curious teenager named Mercer suddenly steals a car in Oregon and develops a life-altering telephonic connection with the forgiving and mysterious girl he took it from. As he sets out with her phone calls as guidance, Mercer s motives find focus as he travels across the postmodern highways of the former Wild West to seek self-knowledge and a sense of belonging. Does that sound like a movie you d want to see?

No? What if you read that paragraph again..

.while listening to the rustic indie-folk stylings of ? You can just feel the tumbleweeds, the stares off into the distance, and the sexual tension, right?

Yeah, this movie is totally going to suck. But at least it ll have good music, as Ward has made his first foray into film music with the score for The Go-Getter. It premieres at the Sundance Film Festival later this month, and Ward will perform at the festival to celebrate.

But Park City is just one stop on Ward s current world tour. He s in Australia right now, with a couple of gigs in New Zealand scheduled for next week. Then, it s back to North America for a brief run of solo shows.

, will release Ward s To Go Home single on February 20. It features guest appearances by such luminaries as Neko Case, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, and Howe Gelb of Giant Sand.
ready to cut a rug, because are about to tour pretty much everywhere.

In late January, the band will fire things up with quick treks through both Japan and Australia. Then, they re off on whirlwind treks across North America and Europe, taking them through late April. the Sisters also slated to play a New Year s Eve gig in Berlin, as well as three English dates in the summer.

And they ll reach an even bigger audience on February 8, when Scissor Sisters will appear on the zany NBC soap opera Passions . According to their website, the band will burst on to the show in a puff of smoke, conjured by young witch(!) Endora to play in her mother s living And speaking of that big screen sitting in front of your face (the one that isn t a computer monitor), last month, Scissor Sisters asked their fans to film themselves getting ready, pumped and prepared Finally, the band released a new single, Land of a Thousand Words , not too long ago on CD, picture disc, and iTunes exclusive download.

M.I.A.

in studio with Timbaland / in Liberia with former child soldiers It s been a little while since we ve heard from the / camp, but that doesn t mean they haven t been crazy busy. Today comes word via Diplo s website that the ace DJ/party-starter-- along with UK producer/remixer , aka David Taylor-- is right now mastering M.I.

A. s second album, the follow-up to 2005 s white-hot Arular.
Details on the new disc remain scant, but we do know that M.

I.A. shacked up in the studio at some point with everyone s favorite chaperone to the chorus, Timbaland.

While it s unclear in what capacity he contributed, a video showing M.I.A.

and Tim apparently selecting tracks for her new LP popped up on YouTube earlier this week-- and vanished before we had a chance to share it with you.
M.I.

A. hasn t mentioned her dealings with Tim on her blog (yet), but she did on December 3 about jetting OFFFF TO LIBERIA. TO MEET X CHILD SOILDERS [sic].

She also shouted out Michael Jackson s Liberian Girl and posted what appear to be lyrics to a new jam.
Wesley Diplo Pentz, meanwhile, also reports he s putting the finishing touches on , a forthcoming film celebrating Rio de Janeiro s vibrant Funk Carioca culture that Dip executive produced, co-directed, and handled sound for (the flick shares its title with his 2004 baile funk mix). Joining Pentz, s handled direction, cinematography, and production for the doc, which should see release soon.

Scope a blazin trailer below and catch three more clips by clicking .

Also, Kozelek Scores Short Film for Art Exhibit two-disc live compilation which dropped today (November 28) on his own label? Well, now you can check out Salvador Sanchez , a track from the first CD of the set.

Click on the link below and judge for yourself. on s 2003 release, , is performed Salvador Sanchez isn t as instrumentally heavy as its original, it stands more familiar and homey than ever, and the well-managed club aesthetic of the recording (you can hear the crowd, but not too much) only increases the number s intimacy. version are, advised to seek it out, however, as Kozelek s live lyrics are sometimes unclear due to a slight echo on the microphone.

The also via Caldo Verde. As , buyers can expect to find a new Kristina Faragher for which Mark provided the score. The short fits into a larger art exhibit, Yosemite: Art of an American Icon , which is on display at Los Angeles through April 22.

After that, it will travel to the (May 19-September 2, 13, 2007-January 13, 2008), and Indianapolis (March 22-August 9, 2008). musical worth to the world for a long time, but keeps dipping his hands in whatever he can find. As , Albarn s will release their self-titled debut LP in January, and just released a whole of Demon Days-related material.

But those are just the beginning. El Gusto s forthcoming album, due out in the spring on his label. Franz Contribute to Soundtrack, Doodle for Charity Mackenzie s forthcoming film, .

According to the Franz website, the track was recorded during the band s most recent tour of Latin America and is described as a lyrical drunken waltz. The soundtrack will come out on some time next year, and will also include music from Franz s Domino labelmates Sons and Daughters, Psapp, and Four Tet. Franz frontman Alex Kapranos described the new music, which does not use any drums, as quite dark and full of whimsy.

IMDB), the movie, filmed in Edinburgh, Scotland, is about a teenager, Hallam (played by Jamie Bell, aka the kid from Billy Elliott and that Green Day video), who becomes a voyeur following the suicide of his new stepmother. Sounds strikingly similar to another H-titled British tale out there, huh? , , , and , respectively.

The film opens in the UK on also published the book in the UK earlier this month. A collection of the singer-guitarist s previously published food columns in the Guardian, it is due to be published by Penguin in the U.S.

on January 2, 2007. other news, Franz Ferdinand are one of many bands (and artists, writers, athletes, etc.) who generously decorated Cameron Ross Stars on Canvas exhibition.

addition to Franz, Fatboy Slim, the Kooks, and a host of others contributed art to this worthy cause. The pieces will be auctioned off at and in a final, real-life auction set to take place on November 26 in Brighton, England. , the band recently contributed to the benefit compilation Give.

Listen. Help. Filter Magazine and Urban Outfitters teamed up for the release, which will be distributed website.

The band is also featured on s forthcoming collaborative record, , out today (November 14) on /Universal Music Danielson Famile Movie Set for U.S. Theaters the movie.

No recollection of it? Given that we refresh. Aronson, head honcho over at the Brooklyn-based , set out to explore the religious motifs, solo/family balance, and other mysteries surrounding Daniel Smith aka Br.

Danielson and the Danielson then, he s carved his footage into a 105-minute movie with, according to a press release, collage, direct cinema, animation, and memorable performances all included. Also featured are cameos from author Rick Moody, Steve Albini, Daniel Johnston, WNYC s David Garland, and film, now officially titled , experienced a successful festival run, and was screened at events like the Southwest, the San Francisco Independent Film Fest, the New York Underground Film Fest, and a series of others. And now, residents of select U.

S. cities will be able to see A Family Movie on the big screen, as a limited theatrical release has been scheduled. The work will be screened at New York s Cinema Village from December 15-21, Chicago s Siskel Center on December 10 and 14, Austin s Alamo Downtown on December 11, 20, 28 and January 2, Seattle s NW Film Forum from December 15-21, San the first two weeks of December, and Portland s NW Film Center in the third week of January, as well as in Los Angeles, Toronto, Boston, and Washington, DC sometime in the not-so-distant future.

trailer, Daniel Smith performs at a retirement center in his tree costume, so this is not to be missed, folks. previously reported, Danielson currently have a big round of dates on their itinerary, set to kick off in Brussels later this month. First off, however, on November 22, the band will record a VRPO 3VOOR12 radio session in Amsterdam.

and three members of his Bad Seeds-- Warren Ellis (also of ), Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos-- will release their as-yet-untitled debut album as on March 5 via in the UK.
Grinderman s music is an instinctual yawlp that..

.resurrects the demons of each musician s past: the trashcan proselytizing of Birthday Party-era Nick; Jim Sclavunos late 70s New York no-wave noise wisdom; Martyn Casey s ominous Triffids bass reverb; plus Ellis avant-garde soundtrack work and his teenage love of Black Sabbath, according to a press release.
No Pussy Blues -- the song streaming from the band s MySpace page-- could be mistaken for a track from the Stooges reunion album, or at least what we hope that record will sound like.

It s noisy, funny, raw, and totally cathartic. Well, well, well. Looks like are up to their old tricks again: releasing bong-loads of recordings, luring the kids out to live shows, and collaborating, side-projecting, and multimedia-mongering all willy-nilly-- last I heard, Thurston Moore was starting an improv noise ensemble with your mom.

Anyhow, this latest dispatch on Youth-ful happenings may include any or all of the following: (1) info on a new B-sides/rarities comp; (2) SY s thoughts on label limbo; (3) info on the U.S. premiere of and associates Perfect Partner; (4) side project mania; and (5) tour hysteria.

First up, the rarities comp. Titled The Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities, according to Billboard.com, the disc arrives December 12 via Geffen.

Sonic Youth s and culled the collection s selections from the back sides of singles, various compilations, and bonus cuts from international editions of SY releases. While the final tracklist has yet to be determined, The Destroyed Room will also a few tunes that even you-- yes you, with the washing machine tattooed on you chest-- have never heard before. Er, maybe.

Following the release of the comp, Sonic Youth become the musical equivalent of a free agent, having fulfilled their contractual obligations with Geffen. Asked by Billboard.com if the band would stay with their longtime label, bassist Kim Gordon expressed uncertainty.

I don t really think they want us to stay. They fired a few key people working on [Rather Ripped] a week before it came out..

.So, I don t know.
There s also talk of an expanded reissue of Daydream Nation-- to the at the Library of Congress-- which a label split might jeopardize.

Tucker, Hanna, MacKaye in Riot Grrrl Documentary When a musical movement comes along and revolutionizes the way we think and feel, the least we can do is make a documentary about it 15 years later, right? Right. And so, joining the ranks of is , a documentary film that tells the story of the origins of riot grrrl in the American independent music scene of the 1990s, and how this feminist movement evolved into a revolutionary underground network of education and self-awareness through music, writing, activism, and women-friendly community, according to the documentary s .

Don t Need You features interviews with Sleater-Kinney/Heavens to Betsy s Corin Tucker, Bikini Kill/Le Tigre s Kathleen Hanna, Bratmobile/Partyline s Allison Wolfe, and of course, Ian MacKaye (what punk documentary would be complete without him?), among others. It also includes rare, archival materials including original riot grrrl fanzines, flyers, and photographs as well as seldom-seen footage from pioneering riot grrrl bands like Bikini Kill, Heavens to Betsy, and Bratmobile.

Stream: The Fountain Clips Ft. Mogwai, Antony is probably one of your favorite music-makers-- you just didn t realize it. The former frontman has collaborated with Trent Reznor, but he s best known these days as a film composer.

In addition to scoring such movies as Sahara, Doom, and Trust the Man, he s partnered with director for all three of his projects: 1998 s Pi, 2000 s Requiem for a Dream, and this year s , due in theaters November 22. , Mansell s score for The Fountain is performed by in collaboration with . , home of Kronos Quartet, will release on November 21, and they have posted a few pieces of the soundtrack on their website.

Clips of nine of the disc s 10 tracks can be heard . Of the nine thirty-second samples, Tree of Life seems the most Mogwai-ish, with droning guitars bubbling under Kronos whirling strings. The epic Death Is the Road to Awe can be heard in its entirety via .

Building and building to a crashing climax featuring screaming feedback, a choir, and bells, it s exactly the kind of vertiginous high we ve come to expect from Mansell s music. As an extra special treat, Mansell has posted an alternate outtake version of the track The Last Man on his . It features s fluttery, almost wordless cooing over mysterious, melancholy piano.

grave, Kurt Cobain is back in the spotlight once again. This time, he s headed to your television set.
1994 VHS release Live!

Tonight! Sold Out!!

, which contains material culled from their 91-92 Nevermind world tour, will be reissued on DVD on November 7 via Geffen/UMe. The film has been color-corrected, digitally remastered in 5.1 surround sound, and performance at Amsterdam s Paradiso.

The original video was completed The Fall, Raincoats, Faust Pay Tribute to the Monks
Also: Jason Forrest, the Gossip, Jon Spencer, Mouse on Mars Fresh off of the August 19 world premiere of the documentary at this year s and in Pitchfork s feature, are back with a tribute album and even a few live performances.
The tribute album is called Silver Monk Time: A Tribute to the Monks, and will release it on October 23. The compilation features 29 tracks on two discs by artists ranging from the Fall and the Raincoats to the Gossip and Jason Forrest.

The Monks themselves even appear in collaboration with Charles Wilp. There are plenty of such collaborations, the others between Jon Spencer and Solex, Silver Apples and Alan Vega, Die Goldenen Zitronen and Chicks on Speed, and Gary Burger with both Alec Empire and Faust on two separate tracks. A seven-inch single with the contributions from Alec Empire ft.

Gary Burger and the Fall is also scheduled for an October 23 release on play loud! The Monks will appear live in London, Zurich, and Berlin in October, with the latter show serving as the record release party for Silver Monk Time. Screenings of the documentary will follow the shows in Zurich and Berlin.

For more information on specific events in those cities and any that are added in the future, visit .
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Takes on John Lennon in Documentary The man may have been a walking, talking, songwriting peace sign-- and a huggable one at that-- but for some folks was, in his day, a threat to national security. Sounds crazy and, hmmmm, seems to parallel certain recent events, which is probably why the flick hits the big screen later this month.
Written, directed, and produced by the team of David Leaf and John Scheinfeld (responsible, in various configurations, for countless musician-oriented TV specials), the film explores the U.

S. government s attempts to suppress the voice of peace-happy John Lennon during the Vietnam War-happy era of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Unlike recent docs detailing the lives of and , this one focuses more on the socio-political climate of the times, so expect more hard-hitting truths and fewer baby photos.

The U.S. vs.

John Lennon features seldom-seen footage from the Lennon vaults, courtesy of the man s widow, artist Yoko Ono. But that s not all. Lennon s own music provid[es] subtly incisive narration, according to the press release.

And while he s no Morgan Freeman, we can still dig it.
Plenty of special guests pop in to say a piece or two, including linguistics superstar and political activist Noam Chomsky, journalist and news icon Walter Cronkite, Watergate watchdog Carl Bernstein, Watergate mastermind G. Gordon Liddy, civil rights activist Angela Davis, writer Gore Vidal, former Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern, former NY governor Mario Cuomo, and.

..Geraldo Rivera!

The curious may check out the trailer below, as well as an exclusive teaser clip from the film itself-- featuring Geraldo, who seeks the buried treasure of John Lenno-- er, who talks about stuff.
While you re at it, check out the film s , a too-cute Drudge Report knockoff. For the self-proclaimed greatest band in the world, it seems quite an oversight that have waited until now to issue a best of compilation.

However, the band wanted to do it right, so they selected the eighteen tracks for the forthcoming Stop the Clocks themselves. The hits compilation is scheduled for a November 20 release in the UK.
According to NME.

com, the band is also planning to release their first film this year. Its title: Lord Don t Slow Me Down. Considering how long these releases have taken them, it s hard to imagine them going much slower.

While pretty girls make graves, make their own brand of gentle, country-tinged Pacific Northwestern folk, citing their primary influence as current life. Yep, the side project of bassist Derek Fudesco-- also featuring Peter Quirk (Hint Hint) and Marty Lund (Cobra High)-- is a pretty subdued affair. The three-piece (which shares a name with Fudesco s ) formed this year in a basement and anticipate recording an album this fall.

Pete and I have been playing for about nine or 10 months, Fudesco told Pitchfork, We live together and would go in the basement and play and record songs we made up. We really liked the stuff we were writing, so we decided to make it a band. About two months ago, we got Marty to help us play better.

The Cave Singers are recording with Colin Stewart (PGMG, Black Mountain) this October, but they don t have a label yet. It would be awesome if someone wanted to put [the album] out, said Fudesco. If not, then we will release it.

While the band hope to make Cave Singers an ongoing thing. Fudesco has also kept busy writing songs for a film-- , directed by his friend Mike Ott, which recently premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and will appear at the Vienna Film Festival in October.
It was a really cool experience, writing to fit scene clips and creating a vibe and not just writing songs the same way I m used too, said Fudesco, It s something that I would like to try and do more of.

Meanwhile, Pretty Girls Make Graves recently recorded an exclusive live iTunes session which includes versions of Pyrite Pedestal , The Number , Pictures of a Night Scene , and Domino , all from the band s latest record, E lan Vital. The latter track appears as a seven-and-a-half-minute-long dub mix . PGMG head out on a massive North American tour this fall.

Sorry broheim, no porn here It s essential for a music movie to have a good soundtrack, and doubly so for a documentary of a specific scene. With that in mind, Rhino Records has assembled a pretty solid compilation of tracks from local 80s hardcore scenes to soundtrack the forthcoming documentary .
Sharing its name with the film, American Hardcore (the soundtrack) compiles 26 tracks onto a 37-minute album and includes contributions from the DC, New York, Boston, SoCal, NorCal, and Pacific Northwest scenes, among others.

Big names (Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minor Threat) mingle with smaller ones (Battalion of Saints, Gang Green) on this record, which drops digitally on September 26 and lands in stores on October 10.
The film, which debuted at Sundance this year, opens in New York on September 22 and in Los Angeles and Irvine, California on September 29, with a nationwide release scheduled for October 13.
We all know as Nirvana frontman, s love, and, more recently, an from beyond the grave.

According to journalist Michael Azerrad, however, Cobain was more accurately, a person who a lot of people thought they understood but probably didn t, MTV.com reports. apartment, and we walked down this long hallway, with a bedroom down at the end, he told MTV.

And I was just dreading what I was going to find in that bedroom. But what I found was a man lying in bed, with his feet pointed towards the door. His feet were sticking out from underneath a blanket, and his toenails were painted red.

He was extremely nice, told me to come in and sit down. And then he offered me some grapes. laid the idea of a Nirvana book on Cobain, who approved.

Following the proposal, Azerrad interviewed the frontman over a series of months. from New York, and he d call me and say, OK, great, come over at around midnight, he said. So I would take a nap, and then I d head over.

And we d start talking, and often keep talking until the sun came up. It was basically a man, in his kitchen, talking to someone he trusts in the wee hours of the morning. The TV was always on.

He was a huge Speed Racer fan. He loved Chim Chim the monkey. He d be sitting in his kitchen wearing ripped jeans and a interviews were recorded, the majority of which Azerrad used in his 1993 Nirvana book, Come as You Are.

Just months after the work landed, however, Cobain committed suicide. Emotionally unable to go over the remaining interviews (or even to listen to Nirvana albums, for that matter), Azerrad shelved the leftover material, not touching it for nearly a decade. a few years back, anyway, when Azerrad was interviewed for the They Might Be Giants documentary, Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns), and got to know director AJ Schnack.

The two bonded over their passion for Nirvana, so when Azerrad dropped the I ve got a truckload of unreleased Cobain interviews in my apartment bomb, Schnack was like, Say WHAT? Let s make a movie! Or anyone is expecting about a Kurt Cobain documentary, and it s not a traditional rock doc, Schnack explained to MTV.

There s no archival footage in the film, and Kurt only appears at the very end. Basically it s the chance to sit with his voice and listen to him tell his story. The final product, titled Kurt the tapes.

It features music by some of Cobain s favorite bands, from his widely Queen, R.E.M.

, and Cheap Trick. And get this: Death Cab for Cutie s and legendary grunge producer provide a plaintive, ambient soundtrack, according to MTV. Grundie!

About a Son will debut on September 10 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Following its premiere, Schnack and Azerrad plan to take the film to theaters across the nation. But a way and brutal in others, Schnack commented.

And listening to his voice, coupled with the visuals of the places he lived, it s both mesmerizing and haunting. You get the feeling that he was an ordinary guy-- with problems and issues-- who sort of became famous despite that. He was this really extraordinary ordinary man.

have reported that Courtney Love plans to release a 288-page memoir, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love, come November. The book will include never-before-seen photos, and journal entries on the topic of Cobain s death, the couple s last good night together, and more. A book tour will take place with the release of The Diaries, and is expected to hit Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York.

will follow the July release of their latest album, Putting the Days to Bed, with a full-on North American tour. labelmates and will join them for the majority of the dates, but their first two shows will be in California with . In addition to the tour, a Long Winters documentary is also in the works, scheduled for a tentative September release.

Through With Love is a film by about lead Winter John Roderick and the process of recording Putting the Days to Bed. The ten-minute promotional featurette linked to below includes interviews with Roderick and his bandmates as well as Ken Stringfellow (the Posies), Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), and John Vanderslice. The film will include eight live performances and even more interviews in its final incarnation.

Bishop Allen Tour, Star in Movies Justin Rice, singer/guitarist for the Brooklyn based band , stars in the indie film , directed by up-and-comer Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha). Appearing in theatres nationwide starting in late August, the film features Rice playing an um, musician who moves to um, New York after his band calls it quits. There he decides to keep pursuing music and is, of course, met with instant success and a run on the late night talk show circuit.

Ok, just kidding. Actually, he runs into various challenges related to self-promoting his work and his relationships with women. Throughout Mutual Appreciation, Rice plays his own songs, as well as some Bishop Allen ones.

When not acting (Bishop Allen s other lead singer, Christian Rudder, played one of the leads in Funny Ha Ha), the band is putting out a four-track EP for every month of 2006. In addition, they re touring with the Teeth and Chris Mills.
Well I ll be.

have once again boarded the soundtracking ship, this time with Captain Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream). Makes a little more sense than , doesn t it? upcoming film, , playing music written by Clint Mansell.

No surprise party there. The Kronos Quartet are also on the soundtrack. Sure to excite (or enrage) many a disaffected, morose fan, filming for , the long-awaited movie about Joy Division s late frontman, Ian Curtis, began this week.

Directed by veteran music video director and photographer , the film focuses on the tumultuous last years of Curtis life before he committed suicide in 1980, at the age of 23 and shortly before the band was to depart for its first American tour. Control deals with Curtis romantic conflicts with his wife, Deborah, and his mistress, Annik Honore, his increasingly debilitating epileptic seizures, and his performances with Joy Division. Filming will take place in the English towns of Nottingham and Macclesfield (where Curtis lived and is now buried).

The film will be released in the UK by Momentum Pictures sometime in 2007.
Old Joy, Starring Oldham, Set for Theaters In January, told you about s starring role in Kelly Reichardt s Yo La Tengo-soundtracked film, . Now, several screenings, a Sundance premiere, and Rotterdam Film Festival VPRO Tiger Award later, Old Joy is ready for a new audience-- you guys!

fall, beginning September 20 at New York s Film Forum. Afterward, Old Joy will make its way west, Yo La Tengo will change your kid brother s life, and Oldham will call himself Bonnie Prince Braffy. One can hope, Sometimes in order to get the ball rolling, you need a mother s blessing.

And that is just what writer/director Brian Jun received from Mary Guibert, mother of the late , when he proposed a biopic of her son. In fact, Guibert is taking her involvement to the next level; she will co-produce the film with Michelle Sy, who worked on last year s facts, Buckley s mother said in a press release. I know that he s a straight shooter.

There s a depth of character to Brian, surprising in someone so young, and I have seen from his filmmaking that he has the courage and the skill to do this the way it should be done. In January, Jun s film Steel City was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Cool moms eat that stuff up.

the big screen. Writer/producer Train Houston secured the rights to music critic David Browne s 2001 book, Dream Brother: The Lives Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley, last year, Missy, Eminem to Star in Films Seems like every other week brings a new movie starring a rapper. Recently, we ve seen ATL featuring T.

I. and Big Boi, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift with Bow Wow, Killa Season with Cam ron and Dipset. And we ll soon bask in the glory of Waist Deep starring the Game as a dude named Big Meat as well as Idlewild, the perpetually delayed Outkast movie we ve mentioned a million times already.

Well, it seems that there s even more hip-hop Hollywood action to look forward to. According to the Associated Press, will play herself in a film version of her life story; the as-yet-untitled film is being produced by Universal Pictures in conjunction with Robert De Niro s production company, Tribeca Films. No director or other participants have been revealed yet, but damn-- Robert De Niro and Missy Elliott!

This could be the greatest thing ever. Or a total disaster. We can t wait to find out who plays Timbaland.

This actually isn t Missy s first time on the big screen. She was in Pootie Tang, the Jessica Alba danceathon Honey and apparently lent her voice to Shark Tale, if IMDB is to be believed.
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