REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

Hey everyone...in honor of our upcoming 100th episode (!!!), I'll be re-releasing a few of my favorite past conversations on Tuesdays.

This one was a lifelong dream for me: getting to talk to DEVO's Gerald V. Casale about their body of work--a band whose musical and visual identity showed teenage me that it was o.k. to be different, weird, and skeptical. Jerry does not suffer fools gl...

This week, I am joined by Jake Fogelnest, who at the age of 14 hosted MTV's Squirt TV, and later collaborated with Will Ferrell, Sarah Silverman & Billy Eichner.  We take a look at the Bee Gees/Peter Frampton mess-a-thon theatrical feature SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND.

We also discuss how Jake turned his childhood cable access show (shot in his bedroom!) into a full-fledged M...

Hey everyone...in honor of our upcoming 100th episode (!!!), I'll be occasionally re-releasing some of my favorite past conversations. And why not start with a bang: Actor, Musician & Director Paddy Considine on his favorite band Guided By Voices and their documentary Watch Me Jumpstart (Episode 34 which originally aired on May 2nd, 2024).

Now that you've all caught up with Paddy and the rest of the Harrigan family on the seaso...

This week, I'm joined by JoE Silva, the author of The Minimoog Book and host of Athens 411, who chose the film Moog to discuss.

We talk about how JoE first met Robert Moog and then went on a 14 year journey to write The Minimoog Book, Rush's Geddy Lee writing the preface to the book, the incredible stories surrounding Sun Ra as one of the first musicians to ge...

This week I’m joined by Stephen Chung, the director of IT’S ALL GONNA BREAK -- a documentary about the band BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE.

We discuss Stephen’s decades-long friendship with Broken Social Scene and his fly-on-the-wall documentation of the band, how they all met, why the band did not want an earlier version of their documentary to come out, Stephen’s breaking out of his shyness through his love of music a...

A Very Opinionated Look At URGH! A MUSIC WAR--CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: An interview with Lesley Woods of Au Pairs

Hello everyone! This week, I’m releasing this extra-special episode from the Revolutions Per Movie Patreon for everyone to hear!

It's an incredible conversation with a complete legend—Lesley Woods of Au Pairs, who has also been an immigration lawyer in the UK for over thirty years.  Anyone wh...

This week I am joined by musician, author, and songwriter Ezra Furman, who picked the Kathleen Hanna documentary THE PUNK SINGER to discuss.  We talk about Ezra’s process of writing her lyrics, the headspace of making a record, the directness of Kathleen Hanna’s lyrics, and how her lyrical approach changed from Bikini Kill to Le Tigre, the notion of audiences and bands protecting ea...

This week’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience on Feb. 7th, 2025, at Cinema 21 in Portland, Oregon. Beloved composer, musician, and iconic actor PAUL WILLIAMS joined us to discuss the film we screened that night, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, as well as his impressive and long career in film and music. 

Paul talks about his experiences working with director Brian De Palma, juggling acting and composi...

For today’s episode of Revolutions Per Movie’s Pavement Week (Episode #6 out #5…right?), I am joined by actor Michael Esper who played the lead role (Essem) in the musical Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical that is featured in the new documentary Pavements. 

We discuss how Michael first got involved in the project and whether or not he felt the musical was earnest or a put-on, the...

For the finale of Revolutions Per Movie’s Pavement Week, we are joined by Pavement’s Spiral Stairs (aka Scott Kannberg) & Robert Greene, editor/producer of the new documentary Pavements.

We discuss its kaleidoscopic storytelling, which weaves together a star-studded biopic, a traditional band documentary, a Pavement museum, and the Pavement jukebox musical all into a feature-length film.

We also talk about Robert’s long-term ...

This week we continue Pavement Week on Revolutions Per Movie with episodes celebrating Pavement to the max.  

For today’s episode (#4 of 5) we talk to filmmaker Alex Ross Perry who directed the new kaleidoscopic documentary Pavements.  We discussed Alex’s formative years working at the legendary Kim’s Video in NYC, how Alex broke away from traditional music documentaries to make Pavements, the ...

This week, we will be celebrating Pavement Week on Revolutions Per Movie with episodes that are Pavement to the max!!!  

For today’s episode (#3 of 5) we talk to multi-instrumentalist of Pavement, The Minders, Pedro The Lion & Wild Flag, Rebecca Clay Cole!!!  We discuss her time in Pavement and her varied musical life, and she also brought us an amazing music film pick to di...

This week, we will be celebrating Revolutions Per Movie’s Pavement Week with episodes that are Pavement to the max. For today’s episode (#2 of 5), we present an encore airing of our discussion with the director & producers of the amazing Gary Young/Pavement documentary ‘LOUDER THAN YOU THINK,' which is one of the best music documentaries I have seen in recent years and also one of the most enlightening abou...

'SLOW CENTURY’ & ‘PAVEMENTS’ w/ LANCE BANGS

(PART 1 of PAVEMENT WEEK)

This week, we will be celebrating Pavement Week on Revolutions Per Movie with episodes that are Pavement to the max!!!  

For today’s episode (#1 of 5) we start off with a bang with director/producer LANCE BANGS (Slint: Breadcrumb Trail, Jackass, Pavement: Slow Century, Pavements). We discuss how Lance first connec...

On this week’s episode, I am joined by Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter and collaborator with LEONARD COHEN, PERLA BATALLA, who discusses her good friend/creative muse and her thoughts on the film 'LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN.'

We discuss Perla’s childhood and escape from her family into a life in music, her Mom’s record store, working for T.V. legend Norman Lear documenting The Jeffersons & One Day At A Time, her surprisingly...

On this week’s episode, I'm joined by filmmaker Jim Hickcox (Slow Creep, Soft Matter), who brings us the greatest zombie/rock film of all time, WILD ZERO, starring Guitar Wolf!!!  We discuss the Japanese garage rock scene and Guitar Wolf’s stature within it, what is Jet Rock N’ Roll, how Guitar Wolf made the loudest record ever recorded, Bass Wolf & Drum Wolf’s non-stop hair combing in this movie, Guitar Wolf’s ...

This week, I'm joined by Jenny Don’t & Kelly Halliburton (Jenny Don’t & The Spurs & Pierced Arrows), who discuss their bandmates/dear friends Fred & Toody Cole and the documentary UNKNOWN PASSAGE: THE DEAD MOON STORY.

We also discuss how my very first Country/Western show was seeing Fred & Toody’s band Western Front, Jenny and Kelly’s wildly different entry points into Punk and Country, Jenny learni...

On this week’s episode, we are joined by Johnny Echols, who was part of one of the greatest bands of all time, the 60's band Love. We are also joined by Mike Randle, co-founder of the band Baby Lemonade and Love w/ Johhny Echols, who, alongside Love singer/songwriter Arthur Lee & Echols, helped find new audiences for Love's music before Arthur died in 2006. We discuss how for a...

On this week’s episode, we look at the ultimate song and dance man, Andy Kaufman, and the new documentary about him, Thank You Very Much, directed by this week’s guest, Alex Braverman. We discussed Alex’s parents working on the filming of Andy Kaufman’s Carnegie Hall stage show and how Alex discovered Andy through that VHS sitting on his parent’s shelf, how most of Andy’s comedy was infused with music, Tony Clifton, Andy's skill at...