The Allure of the Overflowing Record Shop
Record stores often play an outsized role in peoples' lives and shaping their taste in music. These documentaries show the influence specific record stores have had on artists, their surrounding communities and how they stir up memories of bygone times.
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Flipside
Directed by Chris Wilcha • Documentary • With Chris Wilcha, Ira Glass, Herman Leonard, David Milch, Judd Apatow • 2024 • 96 minutes
When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdness from his y...
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It Came From Aquarius Records
Directed by Kenneth Thomas • Documentary • With John Darnielle, Wayne Coyne, Ty Segall, Matt Groening • 2022 • 108 minutes
Indie rock, psychedelic, folk, krautrock, weirdo Finnish prog rock, Japanese noise, glitchy black metal... Aquarius Records discovered and promoted all of this and more, yea...
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Other Music
Directed by Puloma Basu, Rob Hatch-Miller • Documentary • With Tunde Adebimpe (TV On the Radio), William Basinski (composer), Panda Bear, Avey Tare & Geologist (Animal Collective),
Matt Berninger (The National), Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai), James Chance (The Contortions), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Y...
