On this week’s episode, I am joined by Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter and collaborator with LEONARD COHEN, PERLA BATALLA, who discusses her good friend/creative muse and her thoughts on the film 'LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN.' We discuss Perla’s childhood and escape from her family into a life in music, her Mom’s record store, working for T.V. legend Norman Lear documenting The Jeffersons & One Day At A Time, her surprisingly frantic introduction to Leonard Cohen’s music and the man himse...
Apr 24, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 86
On this week’s episode, I'm joined by filmmaker Jim Hickcox ( Slow Creep, Soft Matter ), who brings us the greatest zombie/rock film of all time, WILD ZERO, starring Guitar Wolf! !! We discuss the Japanese garage rock scene and Guitar Wolf’s stature within it, what is Jet Rock N’ Roll, how Guitar Wolf made the loudest record ever recorded, Bass Wolf & Drum Wolf’s non-stop hair combing in this movie, Guitar Wolf’s pro-Trans stance in the film, going to video stores rather than record stores w...
Apr 17, 2025•56 min•Ep. 85
This week, I'm joined by Jenny Don’t & Kelly Halliburton ( Jenny Don’t & The Spurs & Pierced Arrows ), who discuss their bandmates/dear friends Fred & Toody Cole and the documentary UNKNOWN PASSAGE: THE DEAD MOON STORY. We also discuss how my very first Country/Western show was seeing Fred & Toody’s band Western Front, Jenny and Kelly’s wildly different entry points into Punk and Country, Jenny learning to sing using an answering machine, The Cole’s approach to get the job do...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 84
On this week’s episode, we are joined by Johnny Echols , who was part of one of the greatest bands of all time, the 60's band Love . We are also joined by Mike Randle , co-founder of the band Baby Lemonade and Love w/ Johhny Echols , who, alongside Love singer/songwriter Arthur Lee & Echols, helped find new audiences for Love's music before Arthur died in 2006. We discuss how for a long time the music documentary Love Story was the only way to glean information about the mysterious band, how...
Apr 03, 2025•50 min•Ep. 83
On this week’s episode, we look at the ultimate song and dance man, Andy Kaufman , and the new documentary about him, Thank You Very Much , directed by this week’s guest, Alex Braverman . We discussed Alex’s parents working on the filming of Andy Kaufman’s Carnegie Hall stage show and how Alex discovered Andy through that VHS sitting on his parent’s shelf, how most of Andy’s comedy was infused with music, Tony Clifton, Andy's skill at wasting valuable network TV time, the incredible footage of A...
Mar 27, 2025•43 min•Ep. 82
On this week’s episode, we are joined by the legend Kevin McDonald of The Kids In The Hall, who talks about his upcoming rock opera, Superstar (A Rock Opera) , and the films and music that influenced it. We also discuss Kevin’s love of musicals, why comedians want to be musicians and vice versa, Kevin discovering Jesus Christ Superstar and the effect it had on him, the musicality of Kevin’s voice in his comedy, writing the Kids In The Hall sketches ‘The Suburbs’, ‘Daddy Drank, and ‘The Bass Play...
Mar 20, 2025•37 min•Ep. 81
This week, we are joined by PULP 's MARK WEBBER to discuss what was to be the most influential documentary of his life, THE SOUTH BANK EPISODE ABOUT THE VELVET UNDERGROUND . We discuss Mark’s path from making fanzines (including interviewing Mo Tucker ), & running the Pulp fanclub to eventually joining PULP as they embarked on their classsic records ( DIFFERENT CLASS, THIS IS HARDCORE & WE LOVE LIFE ), how Pulp composes music, being too young to get the Velvet Underground on first listen...
Mar 13, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 80
This week, we are joined by musician, producer, composer, and filmmaker Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Rites Of Spring, The Messethics) , who chose the wildly unexpected outlaw country documentary HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS to discuss. We also get to discuss the importance of his bands Rites Of Spring & Fugazi , Chris seeing Fugazi in a hippie cafeteria on their first tour, playing videogames with Elliott Smith , Brendan's Burn to Shine series that featured bands playing songs in a condemned house that was ...
Mar 06, 2025•57 min•Ep. 79
This week, we are joined by MARTIN WONG (co-creator and editor of GIANT ROBOT magazine and self-proclaimed ‘shitworker’ for THE LINDA LINDAS ) to discuss the music narrative punk film LINDA LINDA LINDA . We discuss Martin’s past writing for FLIPSIDE magazine and his initial exposure to punk music, how Giant Robot was started, our favorite obscure Asian cinema and music, how James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins did the soundtrack for this film, the L.A. Chinatown punk scene, the Linda Lindas opening fo...
Feb 27, 2025•47 min•Ep. 78
This week we are joined by the director and producers of the amazing Gary Young/Pavement documentary ‘ LOUDER THAN YOU THINK,' 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 discussing Gary, Gary’s legendary home studio where he played drums and recorded Pavement's early records, the incredible marionettes that were built specifically for the film, what it was l...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 77
This week, we are joined by actor, writer & comedian CLARE O’KANE (whose latest comedy album, Everything I Know How To Do , was released on Eugene Mirman ’s record label) about the classic 1968-directed film MONTEREY POP ! We discuss Clare’s Bay Area upbringing and being too uptight to be a hippie, our history with comedy records and what its like for Clare to make one, we share our weirdo pre-flight rituals, why the Grateful Dead didn’t want to be in the finished film and other performances...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 76
This week, we are joined by musician STEVE MICHENER ( Big Dipper, Volcano Suns, Dumptruck, Barbara Manning ) to discuss a documentary featuring one of Steve’s old bandmates, T HIS IS NOT A PHOTOGRAPH: THE MISSION OF BURMA STORY !!!! We discuss the makeup of the Boston music scene of the 80s, Steve’s time in post-Burma band VOLCANO SUNS with Peter Prescott , the genesis of BIG DIPPER , how it was like Beatlemania for Burma in Boston, Burma playing 3 times a week in the early days, how Burma chang...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 75
This week, we are joined by RONNIE BARNETT of THE MUFFS, who chose the classic music documentary ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL to discuss! We also discuss the sides of Double Nickles On A Dime , Ronnie's high-school metal & new wave band roots, Creem magazine, Ian McKaye’s love of Ted Nugent, trying to understand Van Halen, turning your back on metal during the punk wars, how most bands suck after their 4th record, how the director of Hitchcock ( who was once an Anvil roadie) made this film, the...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 74
This week, we’re joined by musician & arranger Kyleen King . As a backing performer for such acts as Brandi Carlile, The Decemberists & Drive-By Truckers, Kyleen picked a film that strikes close to home, 20 Feet From Stardom . We discuss what it feels like to serve other musician’s visions even if they can’t articulate what they want, zoning out on stage, pre-show rituals and superstitions, the performative elements of being a backing musician, how the film helped Kyleen want to go into ...
Jan 23, 2025•55 min•Ep. 73
This week, we are joined by one of the legends of the American Underground, STEVE WYNN ( The Dream Syndicate ), who picked the jaw-dropping THE TAMI SHOW from 1964 to discuss. We also talk about the excitement of being young in the studio for the first time, the four elements that make a great record and how The Fall inhabited all of them, working with Peter Buck, being a snobby music snob, Chris seeing The Dream Syndicate open for R.E.M. on their Reckoning/Medicine Show Tour, how they evolved f...
Jan 16, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 72
On this week’s bonus episode of Revolutions Per Movie (released for fun on Chris' birthday), we are joined by director Jeff Feuerzeig ( The Devil And Daniel Johnston, AUTHOR: The JT LeRoy Story, Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King ) to discuss a very mysterious, litigious, and glorious documentary KISS IN CADILLAC, MICHIGAN 1975 ! We get to discuss Jeff’s origin story with Kiss, his childhood insights into their albums, how a high school assistant football coach got Kiss, at the height of...
Jan 10, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 71
This week, we are joined by Paisley Underground legend MATT PIUCCI (Rain Parade, Crazy Horse) to discuss the TODD HAYNES ’ documentary, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND . We also talk about Haynes’ body of work including Velvet Goldmine & Safe , the perfect run of Velvet Underground records, Chris’ emotional breakdown after seeing the film in the theater, Roky Music & The Doors, does a biopic need to be truthful, how being on stage is similar to Matt’s forensic courtroom work (and would any member...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 70
This week we are joined by superforce musician, actor, writer & podcaster SEAN NELSON (Harvey Danger, The Wonder Of It All) to discuss one of the most divisive music biopics of all time, Oliver Stone’s THE DOORS . We delve into seeing the film in the theater when it first came out in 1991 and how it was wiped off the culutral map shortly after its release, the divisiveness of The Doors’ music, how this was the peak of Oliver Stone’s power after just winning an oscar, DePalma’s proposed versi...
Jan 02, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 69
Happy holidays, everyone! I wanted to thank everyone who has supported and listened to the show, all of you incredible folks who have gone the distance & subscribed to the show's Patreon (again, thank you thank you thank you!), written kind reviews, turned other people onto the show, and generally just cheered this show along as I work on the show. I also want to give much love and thanks to my co-host Chaki The Funk Wizard, all my incredible guests who bring such goodness to the show, and t...
Dec 26, 2024•47 min•Ep. 68
This week, we are joined by documentary filmmaker SCOTT CRAWFORD to discuss the director’s cut of his D.C. hardcore punk documentary, SALAD DAYS !!! We discussed Scott’s punk fanzine that he published in 7th grade, unlocking the mystery of VOID , the sadness of MINOR THREAT ’s final EP Salad Days , Trouser Press Magazine, devouring punk rock scene reports, seeing FUGAZI play in a hippie cafeteria, witnessing RITES OF SPRING ’s legendary live shows, being able to name all members of BEEFEATER , t...
Dec 19, 2024•50 min•Ep. 67
This week, we are joined by legends Jeff & Steven McDonald of REDD KROSS and Andrew Reich, the director of the new Redd Kross documentary ‘ BORN INNOCENT: THE REDD KROSS STORY .' A band very close to my heart and record collection, we discussed so much in this episode, including the Elks Lodge Punk Rock riot and the story of their parents rescuing them from it, Andrew’s gateway into hearing the band for the first time, Jeff’s early hair regiment and the moment the band decided they would cut...
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 66
This week, we talk to director, comedian, visual artist, writer, and conjurer of groovy worlds, RACHEL LICHTMAN (Programme 4, Easy AM 66), about one of the most surreal episodes of the fabulous variety series The Hollywood Palace ! Our deep dive leads us into one of the strangest and funniest episodes ever of Revolutions Per Movie, where we take apart (and at times destroy ‘with love’) the show—complete with the mind-twisting commercials of the day. We discuss how the host, quadruple artistic th...
Dec 05, 2024•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 65
This week, we are joined by New Zealand musician & composer LUKASZ PAWEL BUDA ( Hunt For The Wilderpeople; The Phoenix Foundation) , who picked the Dave Markey music documentary 1991: THE YEAR PUNK BROKE to discuss. We talk about discovering Nirvana & Sonic Youth, what it’s like for Luke to compose music for director Taika Waititi ’s films, 1991’s director Dave Markey’s history with SST records, Luke taking the teenage trek to see grunge bands live and does Pearl Jam count as a grunge ba...
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 64
This week, we are joined by comedian, musician, and the proud creator of 31 Videos In One Day , JOE KWACZALA , who picked the Lonely Island music comedy biopic POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING to discuss. We also talk about what leads the charge for Joe—comedy or music, Joe’s obsessions with classic rock radio, getting your rock shirts at JcPenneys, Joe cracking classic rock station trivia contests and winning beer as 14 year old from them, the shield of comedy lyrics, how difficult it is to r...
Nov 21, 2024•51 min•Ep. 63
This week, we talk to Nick Brine (who, as a teenager, worked on The Stone Roses ’ 2nd LP & Oasis ’ What’s The Story Morning Glory and has worked with everyone from Nick Cave to Bruce Springsteen ) about the legendary Welsh recording studio that Nick got his start in the doc Rockfield: The Studio On The Farm . We discuss all the legends that have recorded there from Hawkwind to Queen from The Beta Band to Shane MacGowan , how The Ward Brothers who created Rockfield transformed their family fa...
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 62
This week, we talk to journalist and author KATHERINE YESKE TAYLOR ( She’s A Badass: Women In Rock Shaping Feminism ) about the much-requested film PURPLE RAIN !!! We get to discuss Katherine’s start at interviewing bands at age 16 and fighting against her highschool newspaper to do so, how she put her book together (interviewing Suzie Quatro to Lydia Lunch to Death Valley Girls), seeing Purple Rain in a movie theater vs. seeing it at home on VHS, how the First Avenue (the lengendary music club ...
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 61
This week, we talk to author and music critic MARC MASTERS ( High Bias: The Distorted History Of The Cassette Tape , Pitchfork, The Wire) about the film THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON and the cassette tape culture surrounding Daniel. We also discuss our elaborate tape trading stories and sequencing your perfect mixtape, Bananafish magazine, Sebadoh, Homestead Records, ordering Daniel Johnston cassettes directly, Daniel’s religious upbringing, arguing with his Mom and how he put it directly into h...
Oct 31, 2024•52 min•Ep. 60
This week, we talked to documentary filmmaker Katherine Linton about her Sundance Channel documentary Follow My Voice: The Music of Hedwig, which follows the students of the Harvey Milk School in NYC and John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask of Hedwig & The Angry Inch (and Revolutions Per Movie host Chris Slusarenko) putting the charity album together. We discuss the stress of not letting Kim Deal of The Breeders know that Frank Black was also appearing on the record, the unknown magic a...
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 59
This week, we talk to actor, writer, and comedian DC PIERSON ( Community, Derrick Comedy & author of The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To) about the legendary THIS IS SPINAL TAP ’! We discuss the genesis of the project and the trials of making the movie, the original 4 1/2-hour cut of the film and the significant changes throughout the film, the similarities/differences between the comedy & music world, why musicians want to be comedians and vice-versa, what makes a subject ripe f...
Oct 17, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 58
This week, we tal k to BRETT BOHAM (producer of Double Threat & The Best Show w/ Tom Scharpling + co-host of Movies Babyyyyy) about the UK film 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE . We discuss Steve Coogan’s incredible performance as Tony Wilson (who put out records by Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays) and Paddy Considine as Rob Gretton, unearthing fake Stone Roses footage that was not used in the film, pivotal video store moments, working with Julie Klausner & Tom Scharpling, Brett being able to...
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 57
