This week, my guest is Sahan Jayasuriya, musician & author of Don't Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen, who discusses the influential but polarizing band, DIE KREUZEN , as we look at the two legendary cable access performances that bookended the band's career in 1983 & 1991. We discuss how Die Kreuzen is beloved by musicians such as Neko Case, Thurston Moore & Ian MacKaye ; why fans often don't want their favorite band to ever change musically and how Die Kreuzen struggled w...
Aug 14, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 108
A Very Opinionated Look At URGH! A MUSIC WAR--CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: An interview with JC CARROLL of The Members Pt. 1 This week, we bring you Part 1 of our conversation with URGH performer JC CARROLL from UK band THE MEMBERS , who has had one of the most incredible lives (as you will soon hear!). We discuss JC's first live concert: T REX , honoring your past by playing classic songs that people still want to hear, JC meeting Graham Parker in a bar and making 4-track recordings in their bedroom t...
Aug 10, 2025•42 min
This week, my guest is Dave Holmes (author, Editor-At-Large at Esquire , former MTV VJ , podcaster), who brings us our most requested film: VALLEY GIRL !!! We discuss the wild stories of Dave auditoning for and becoming a MTV VJ, reading symbolism in music videos with your teenage friends, how long we could stare at an album cover for, NIght Flight , our mutual love for Tommy Keene , did Dave ever get a music video of his choice on MTV during his time there, leaving your body while interviewing ...
Aug 07, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 107
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 Armstrong ’s second film was nowhere near the vibe of her first ( My Brilliant Career ) , the underground ra...
Jul 31, 2025•57 min•Ep. 106
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 regarding The Residents. I was extremely proud when, at the end ...
Jul 29, 2025•51 min
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 archival footage of the band rehearsing in Britt’s parents’ basement, how Sli...
Jul 24, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 105
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 performing on Conan, accidental mistakes turning into magic, how many of Brian’s ...
Jul 17, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 104
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 . (Episode 22 originally aired on Feb. 8th, 2024). The original podcast show n...
Jul 15, 2025•58 min
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 teenage roadie and friend of Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, experiencing CBGB ’s and Max's Kansas City as a teen, heading overs...
Jul 10, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 103
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). . We also talk about the NYC club scene of the late 70s and early 80s, take a jealous look back at the club calendars at that era, ho...
Jul 04, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 102
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 teenager making music on his IBM floppy drive computer, doing David Letterman-style comedy audio cassette recordings, how...
Jul 03, 2025•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 101
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 ! We discuss Tom’s 25 years of doing The Best Show, Tom’s intro...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 100
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 musical special Rachel! which Julie goes into a bit during our orig...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 9 min
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 Neubauten’s influence crept into their work, TFS having to leave Melbourne due to economics, making ...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 99
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. (Episode 48 which originally aired on August 8th, 2024). The origi...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr
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 impossible, her incredible roster of DJs from Mike Watt to Keith Morris , climbin...
Jun 12, 2025•43 min•Ep. 98
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 gladly, so I was quite nervous going into the interview, but once he realized I wasn't going ask about the flower ...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 18 min
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 MTV show, getting his hair cut on TV by Kim Gordon , the day Cypress Hill showed up to his bedroom, the diffi...
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 97
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 season finale of MobLand & his band Riding The Low releasing their...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 10 min
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 get a Minimoog, the strange era where digital synths overtook analog synths, how shy and gentle Robert Moog was, Moog's onstage work wit...
May 29, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 96
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 and photography, how the film's story was told through the lens of Stephen's life as an...
May 22, 2025•58 min•Ep. 95
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 who has been listening to the URGH! A MUSIC WAR PODCAST knows that Lesley's performance blew open...
May 18, 2025•51 min•Ep. 33
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 each other, Kathleen urging 'girls to the front' and how Ezra still is working on that at her own shows, being misun...
May 15, 2025•55 min•Ep. 94
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 composing songs for fellow actors William Finley, Gerrit Graham, and Jessica Harper, his stylist...
May 08, 2025•45 min•Ep. 93
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 mixed bag that often is a jukebox musical, whether or not his fellow actors knew about Pavement and their music ...
May 05, 2025•30 min•Ep. 92
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 push-pull artistic relationship with the film’s director Alex R...
May 02, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 91
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 truth hidden within the fiction of the biopic segments of the film, the earnest nature of musical theate...
May 01, 2025•51 min•Ep. 90
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 discuss: the Luther Vandross documentary Luther: Never Too Much . We also talk about her involvement with the Elephant 6 s...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 89
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 about Pavement. We discuss how surprisingly open the members of Pavement were to discussi...
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 88
'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 connected with Pavement and started documenting their early shows, what a young Lance was watching and listening to b...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 87
