REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

This week, I’m joined by critic, author, and podcaster Alonso Duralde, who chose to discuss the 1982 Australian New Wave music film Starstruck.  We also talk about Alonso’s incredible new book Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film, working in video stores, 80s mind-bending musicals like The Apple and Can't Stop The Music, how filmmaker Gillian Armstr...

Hey everyone...welcome to our bi-monthly ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vault! On this episode, I was joined by Homer Flynn, representing The Residents and all things Ralph Records, to talk about their incredible body of work, and my gawd, they performed part of their epic, Eskimo, live recently...incredible! This was my chance to ask about so many things that wouldn't be typically discussed ...

This week, Todd Brashear joins me to discuss his experiences being in the band Slint, Lance Bangs' Slint documentary Breadcrumb Trail, and our shared history of being video store owners!!!

We also talked about how Jesus Urge Superstar is an overlooked masterpiece, Todd’s early days in the hardcore punk scene in Louisville, the pre-Slint band Maurice, the first time Todd saw Slint perform, the Tweez EP, the amazing...

This week, I am joined by one of the greatest late-night writers & performers of all time, BRIAN STACK (Late Night With Conan O’Brien, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), who picked a beloved music documentary to discuss: Be Here To Love Me - A Film About Townes Van Zandt.

We discuss the differences between working on Conan and Stephen’s shows, the last-minute panic of doing a late night show, my experience p...

Hey everyone...welcome to our bi-monthly ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vault! On this episode, I was joined by Vanessa Briscoe Hay of Pylon & PRS (Pylon Reenactment Society), who brought so much incredible history and focus in our discussion on the Athens, GA, scene she was part of and the film that caused multitudes of college students to move there: ATHENS, GA: INSIDE/OUT. (Episod...

This week Angela Jaeger (Author of I FEEL FAMOUS Punk Diaries 1977-1981 and member of bands such as PIGBAG, THE MONOCHROME SET, THE BUSH TETRAS & THE STARE KITS) joins me to discuss THE PUNK ROCK MOVIE.

We talk about Angela's feelings about publishing her personal diaries & how Thurston Moore and Byron Coley encouraged her to release them for everyone, being a t...

This week, I'm releasing a one-two punch of Judas Priest-related films. On today's episode, I’m joined by EVAN 'FUNK' DAVIES, legendary DJ on WFMU, who brings us a Heavy Metal Parking Lot-adjacent film to discuss today: ROCK STAR (loosely based on the story of Tim "Ripper" Owens, who replaced Rob Halford of Judas Priest after being in a Judas Priest cover band).

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This week I’m joined by WILCO's MIKAEL JORGENSON to discuss a film he knows backward and forwards: HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT!  But that's not all… I also got to blow his mind with surprise guest JEFF KRULIK--The Co-Creator of HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT!!!

We discuss Mikael’s endless creativity and how he decides where to put his energy on any given day, the many hours he spent as a teenage...

Welcome to my 100th episode of Revolutions Per Movie (and that's really 181 episodes counting the exclusive Patreon episodes)!

So to properly celebrate gloriously, we are joined by one of the greats, Tom Scharpling (host of The Best Show, co-host of Double Threat, and writer for What We Do In The Shadows & Monk) who brings us his favorite music film of all time by his all-time favorite artist, Neil Young’s Rust Never Sleeps!...

Hey everyone...in honor of Julie Klausner coming to Portland to do Revolutions Per Movie Live on July 5th 2025, I'm re-releasing my incredible conversation with Julie about the Nancy Sinatra TV Special Moving With Nancy (Episode 5 which originally aired on Oct. 12th, 2023).

This episode should get everyone excited to come out to see us at the Clinton St. Theater where we will be watching and discussing the Rachel Welch wild-ass ...

This week I’m joined by Australian musician Gareth Liddiard (Tropical Fuck Storm, The Drones) who chose to discuss one of the greatest concert films of all time,  EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN:HALBER MENSCH.

We talk about how Tropical Fuck Storm made their own film (Goody Goody Gumdrops) during the pandemic lockdown, Gareth playing shows with Neubauten, how TFS writes their brain-melting songs and how...

Hey everyone...in honor of our upcoming 100th episode (!!!), I'll be occasionally re-releasing some of my favorite past conversations. This one was special and powerful--the incredible Ann Magnuson coming on and being incredibly heartfelt, funny, vulnerable, and truthful on the show. I love that I never know where the show is going to go and this episode is the perfect example of why I feel so honored to do Revolutions Per Movie. ...

This week, we are joined by Sue Carpenter, the author and director of 40 WATTS FROM NOWHERE, which documents her pirate radio stations in SF and LA.

We talk about what made her want to turn her book into a documentary, how her station also became a theatrical experience, the incredible amount of documentation she did considering it was a pirate radio station, what makes starting a traditional radio station almost impos...

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-fledg...

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 s...

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...