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CHRIS WILCHA IN PERSON with FLIPSIDE +

Here’s the NorCal feature premiere from a true indy maker who finally broke out of the LA regime to tell his (our) story–that of neighborhood record-stores and the sub-cultural magick that surrounded them. Wilcha‘s tragicomic tale of returning to the New Jersey bastion of dangerous music and weirdness—where he worked as a youth before tearing off west for CalArts–reveals a sorry-ass storefront that has fallen into decay and behind the times. His quest to re-capture the special sensibilities of the 70s and 80s eventually expands into an quasi-autobiographical evocation of other unfinished personal obsessions from that same formative period. Ultimately evolving into project-based encounters with later pals Judd Apatow and Ira Cohen, these true stories cohere into a moving meditation on music, work, and the sacrifices made carving out a creative life on the margins of Hollywood. Plus Russ Forster‘s Califone turntablism $10