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  • Noise Pop: Kids Like You & Me (SF Premiere)

    Director, Bill Cody, has fashioned a second look at his travels with Atlanta’s Black Lips and Beirut’s Lazzy Lung. A meditation on touring the Middle East bringing the viewer into the process of walking the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and traveling through Egypt. This version, while more quiet, is also more experimental and immersive.  View this second version of the tour and feel what it is like to travel in the country where so much is happening every day.

    Kids Like You & Me, directed by Bill Cody, shows the punk rockers playing where few western bands have gone before, deep into the Middle East, including three groundbreaking stops in Egypt. (The last known American rock band to play Egypt being The Grateful Dead in 1978!) Get on the bus with Black Lips and their good friends, Lebanese indie rockers, Lazzy Lung and see the people of the Middle East in daily life.  Shopkeepers and restaurant owners. Skaters, graffiti artists and musicians. Revolutionaries and dreamers. Kids like you and me ! The film highlights the flower punk quartet’s life changing journey through the land of the pyramids for a documentary that is both heart-wrenching and soul-churning in the midst of pure cultural chaos. You’ll never look at the Middle East the same way after seeing this film. TRT: 79 mins.

    website: http://black-lips.com/kids-like-you-and-me-film-and-tourdates/
    trailer youtube link: http://youtu.be/HdC4WKy-MqI

    Ticket Link: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/450881

  • Noise Pop: 
OUR VINYL WEIGHS A TON: THIS IS STONES THROW RECORDS


    Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton is a feature-length documentary about avant-garde Los Angeles based record label Stones Throw Records. The film weaves together rare concert footage, never-before-seen archival material, inner-circle home video and photographs and in-depth interviews with the artists who put the mighty Stones Throw Records on the map. Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton gives an exclusive look into the label’s left-of-center artists, history, culture, and global following. This exciting and fresh doc by director Jeff Broadway features exclusive interviews with Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Madlib, Common, Questlove, Talib Kweli, Mike D (The Beastie Boys), Tyler the Creator, and many more. DIR: Jeff Broadway, TRT: 93 mins

  • Noise Pop: Bayou Maharaja; the tragic genius of James Booker (SF Premiere)

    Bayou Maharajah explores the life and music of New Orleans piano legend James Booker, the man Dr. John described as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.” A brilliant pianist, his eccentricities and showmanship belied a life of struggle, prejudice, and isolation. Illustrated with never-before-seen concert footage, rare personal photos and exclusive interviews, the film paints a portrait of this overlooked genius. Directed by Lily Keber, TRT: 90 mins.
    website: http://www.bayoumaharajah.com/
    trailer youtube link: http://youtu.be/tV8zi0uwChk

    Ticket Link: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/443355