The Bay Area premiere of ‘Directions,’ the 11 video companion to Death Cab for Cutie’s Grammy nominated album, ‘plans,’ featuring a video for each and every song on the record by directors including Paul Brown, Ace Norton, Monkmus, Autumn de Wilde, and Laurent Briet. Preceded by a new trailer about Girls Rock camp for girls… Read more »
In 1979, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis hosted a two-day No/New Wave festival, featuring Devo, the Fleshtones, James Chance and the Contortions, the Monochrome Set, Minneapolis own the Suburbs, Judy Nylon with a young Alejandro Escovedo on guitar, and many others, when this music was just beginning. Early black-and-white video imagery captures the… Read more »
Oakland’s Cuts are rock and roll traditionalists with releases on Birdman and Lookout. Jonny X and the Groadies barrel out of Portland, Oregon with a screamo penchant for robotic beats and insane chugga skree. Unlike much anything else out there, seizure inducing black metal-influenced dramatones.http://www.myspace.com/groadies Spider and the Webs from Olympia do glowing pop rock… Read more »
Dual Injustice: Since 1993, over 400 women have been violently killed and roughly 4,000 cases of disappeared women have been registered in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. Known as feminicide, this phenomenon has become the most embarrassing human rights scandal in recent Mexican history. Under fire for their incompetence, the police have attempted… Read more »
The Gadabout is a nationally touring film festival that screens a program of 20+ international short films. Independent in every sense, these films share the same willingness to challenge the conventions set for filmmaking. The Gadabout is a distribution avenue for truly indie filmmakers that distrust Hollywood and the commercial film festival circuit. We are… Read more »
Films from all over the world contemplating the relationship of labor and economics, the identity of individual to family and the struggle of Gay people for basic human rights, make-up the exciting array of films in the 4th Annual Absolute Time Film Festival. TOP OF A CIRLCE kicks off the third and final day of festival…. Read more »
Films from all over the world contemplating the relationship of labor and economics, the identity of individual to family and the struggle of Gay people for basic human rights, make-up the exciting array of films in the 4th Annual Absolute Time Film Festival. TOP OF A CIRLCE kicks off the third and final day of… Read more »
Cortina Die! Die! Die! KIT Mikaela’s Fiend KIT are the product of the much maligned “best summer ever”, a sarcastic moniker lobbed at the midmonths of 2002 by Friends Forever fanatics and Dirty South transplants alike. Somehow after the honeymoon there are 3 vinyl babies (7″s on zum/post present medium, narnack buddy series, hello asshole/hug… Read more »
We live in a society where public places that people feel like they are an active part of and can use for non-economic purposes are increasingly rare. Public spaces where people can go in order to feel like a part of a community and to participate in creating a transformational culture of resistance to the dominant… Read more »