Summary: Inspired by classical progressive rock bands of 40 years ago such as King Crimson, Emerson Lake, and Palmer and Pink Floyd, young bands of today have transformed progressive music into something new. Ignored by today's music industry but empowered by the tools of the Internet, these young bands are trying to find their audience while crafting a personal sound as an alternative to mainstream music.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Media 2010

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Contents: Start -- Can -- Damo Suzuki's network -- Floh de Cologne -- Kraftwerk -- Krautwerk -- Floh de Cologne -- Neu! -- La Düsseldorf -- Japandorf -- faUSt -- Wume.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Follows the lives of Korean poet Young-Chan Cho, who is both deaf and blind, and his wife Soon Ho. Focuses on the couple's use of touch to communicate.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2013

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Summary: "During the first half of the 1970s, several West German musicians excaped the traditional rock influences of British and American bands and created a new way of making rock music. This movement--which involved psychedelic, electronic, jazz, folk, and noise music--came to be known as Krautrock. The Krautrock bands that pioneered this movement created something never heard before: They took the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: "This collective of progressive bands started [the RIO] movement that remains one of the reference points that many listeners, musicians, and distributors use to describe a cooperative approach of making and distributing non-mainstream music"--Container.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Media 2012

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Summary: Tells the inspiring and tragic love story of Lightning & Thunder, a homegrown Milwaukee husband and wife singing duo who pay tribute to the music of Neil Diamon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Waitwhat Productions 2008

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Summary: Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: "Experience fifteen years in the life of seminal British artist Ralph Steadman, whose surreal, often confrontational artwork is frequently associated with Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson"--Container.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014

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Summary: Tells the story of the world's only yodeling country singing and comedy lesbian sibling duo, the Topp Twins (Jools and Lynda Topp), who have inspired a generation with their politics and celebration of joy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kinosmith 2011

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Summary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011

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Summary: Documentary about the 1970s rock band Big Star (Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Andy Hummel, Jody Stephens), together less than four years and without mainstream success, but producing a body of work that influenced many other musicians.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk, they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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Kilmister, Lemmy

Summary: Profiles the life and career of the influential heavy metal bassist and Motörhead member Lemmy Kilmister.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Megaforce 2011

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Summary: "This special DVD presentation of Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church presents the legendary guitarist in full flight at the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival before the largest US audience of his career. This critically acclaimed film combines color, 16mm multi-camera footage of Hendrix's unforgettable July 4, 1970 concert in its original performance sequence together with a new documentary that traces his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: Documentary covering the formative years of the pub rock group Dr. Feelgood in 1970s Canvey Island, Essex, England.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: Focuses on the history of musicians of the late 1960s in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2010

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Summary: A look at the iconoclastic musicians of Phish, following them over the course of a year, on and off stages across the United States and Europe and at home in Vermont.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2000

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Summary: Documents the outlaw songwriter scene that extended from Austin and Nashville.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Siren Visual 2013

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Summary: Documentary portrait of jazz visionary Sun Ra and his Arkestra.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: Follows the English rock band around the world as they tour to promote the album "OK Computer."

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Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1998

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Summary: Martin Scorsese's pseudo-documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, and blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: An in-depth look at the legendary punk band, The Stooges.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Documentary on the avant-garde music and video collective, the Residents, based on the group's archival materials and their recent 40th anniversary world tour.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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