| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Ecstatic Peace Archives | | 2010-04-09 | Lance Bangs interviews Thurston Moore about the Ecstatic Peace Archives…. |
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| Sonic Youth: Rocknacht – Live In Dusseldorf 1996 | | 1996-07-04 | Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic Yout… |
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| Goo | Himself | 1991-06-11 | In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track … |
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| Teenage Superstars | Himself | 2017-06-22 | Grant McPhee’s sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish music… |
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| Sonic Youth – Goo | Himself | 1991-08-21 | Promotional music video collection… |
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| Put More Blood Into the Music | Himself | 1988-08-06 | PBS produced documentary about Sonic Youth at the height of their powers in 1988… |
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| Daydream Nation | | 2019-02-23 | A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full at the ABC in Glasgow…. |
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| Lou Believers | Himself | 1988-01-01 | Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, and Lou Reed roam the streets of Los Angeles searching for James Woods…. |
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| Sonic Youth – Gila Monster Jamboree – January 5, 1985 | | | A video documenting Sonic Youth’s performance at the Gila Monster Jamboree. Taking place in a remote location in the Mojave Desert, this was the bands… |
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| Notebook | | 1991-01-01 | Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video…. |
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| Sonic Youth: From The Basement | self | | Track listing: 01:26 – The Sprawl 10:45 – Incinerate 16:15 – Hey Joni 20:42 – Jams Run Free 24:34 – Pink Steam Recorded August 2007 at Maida V… |
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| Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth | | 2000-01-01 | This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous video c… |
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| Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost | | 2004-06-08 | A compilation of 24 music videos by Sonic Youth ranging from 1990 to 2002. Collaborators include Harmony Korine, Spike Jonze, Todd Haynes, Mark Roman… |
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| I Need That Record! | Himself | 2008-05-03 | Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, “an elegy for a vani… |
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| Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes | | 2005-07-03 | Sonic Youth’s 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France’s largest rock music festivals…. |
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| Weatherman ’69 | Jeff Jones | 1989-11-17 | Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself, … |
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| Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage | Performer | 2003-09-18 | Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this … |
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| Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond | | | As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural ambassa… |
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| Thick Air | Himself | 2020-08-26 | Shot across five cities and countless nights, Thick Air is a noise-injected collage, composed of diaristic footage, a found narrative (memories of a p… |
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| Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003) | | 2003-04-12 | Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhi… |
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| Cut Shorts | | 2006-09-06 | A collection of short films and music videos from independent filmmaker David Markey, from 1974 to 2004…. |
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| Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape | Himself | 2016-06-27 | Cassette inventor Lou Ottens digs through his past to figure out why the audiotape won’t die. Rock veterans join a legion of young bands releasing mus… |
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| It’s Not Repetition, It’s Discipline | Himself | 2014-10-15 | Dandelion Records and DVD’s present Probably the nearest you will ever get to an official documentary on Mark E Smith and The Fall. Put together over … |
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| Swans: Where Does a Body End? | Self | 2019-09-19 | From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their odds-defying current status as one of the most acc… |
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| SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions | Self | 2019-05-27 | A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth…. |
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| Record Player: Christian Marclay | Himself | 2000-09-09 | Christian demonstrates some techniques and preparations and meditates on the turntable, improvisation, and the difference between the sonic and the vi… |
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| Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) | Himself | 2015-04-11 | “Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)” examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation’s Capital. It was a decade when seminal ban… |
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| An Introduction to Harmolodics | | 1995-12-01 | Ornette Coleman is always asked, “what is Harmolodics?†Harmolodics is the term he coined to describe his music and his philosophy of life. He dec… |
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| Kill Your Idols: More. | Himself | 2006-08-11 | A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is included on the DVD of the 2004 film KILL YOUR IDOLS…. |
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| Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East | Himself | 2007-05-29 | Filmed during their 2005 reunion tour, this release captures the sonic guitar assaults of Dinosaur Jr. onstage, playing the songs “Gargoyle,” “Little … |
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| Pavement: Slow Century | Himself | 2002-10-22 | Documentary tracing the existence of noted rock band Pavement from 1989 to their final performance in late 1999. The DVD also compiles all of their mu… |
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| The Devil and Daniel Johnston | Himself | 2006-03-31 | This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the presen… |
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| Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over | Self | 2019-08-15 | The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City’s preemin… |
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| Punk: Attitude | Himself | 2005-07-04 | A documentary on the music, performers, attitude and distinctive look that made up punk rock…. |
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| Kill Your Idols | Himself | 2004-04-08 | A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock ‘n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current … |
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| Llik Your Idols | Himself | 2007-07-30 | Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won’t forget…. |
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| The Public Image Is Rotten | Himself | 2017-04-21 | British rock icon John Lydon and fellow bandmates recall the years they spent performing as Public Image Ltd…. |
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| (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale | Himself | 2004-09-12 | While planning the eventual DVD release for “1991: The Year Punk Broke”, Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion … |
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| Death Valley 69 | | 1986-01-01 | Music video of Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch spliced with scenes featuring Lung Leg…. |
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| Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine | Himself | 2019-03-14 | Explores the seminal music magazine from its 1969 launch in Detroit to the untimely death of its publisher Barry Kramer in 1981…. |
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| Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. | himself | 2021-10-01 | The American indie rock band “Dinosaur Jr.†is a radical group with an unmistakeable sound. The film tells the story the three charismatic guys in… |
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| Noise | | 2006-06-15 | Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts…. |
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| Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché | Self | 2021-02-27 | The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother’s archives in this intimate document… |
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| No Wave – Underground ’80: Berlin – New York | Self | 2009-07-03 | the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lun… |
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| Ben Lee: Catch My Disease | Self | 2012-11-06 | Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone alm… |
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| We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen | Himself | 2005-01-01 | A feature-length documentary chronicling early ’80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginnings in San Pedro, California, to their demise afte… |
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| Welcome to My Castle! | Himself | 2007-12-04 | Over 5 hours of full-length interviews with Nirvana, Tommy Chong, Sonic Youth, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Ron Jeremy, and many more. Includes videos of Na… |
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| New York Rock at the BBC | Self – Sonic Youth | 2008-06-24 | Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and m… |
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| David S. Ware | Himself | 1999-10-01 | A documentary about saxophonist David S. Ware…. |
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| Turn of the Century | Himself | 2009-09-19 | Filmmaker, illustrator and musician Dame Darcy’s weekly television collaboration with Blessed Elysium’s Lisa Hammer aired on New York’s Public Access … |
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| I’m Now: The Story of Mudhoney | | 2013-10-20 | This documentary tells the story of Mudhoney from their very beginnings, to following them on their recent world tour and everything in between. Compl… |
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| You’re Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson | Himself | 2007-06-08 | Documentary about rock pioneer Roky Erickson, detailing his rise as a psychedelic hero, his lengthy institutionalization, his descent into poverty and… |
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| Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos | Self | 1994-08-16 | Documentary that gives a voice to the percentage of youth that were outcasts/non-conformists in the 90’s. Interviews many famous musicians and other c… |
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| Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard | Self | 2011-10-27 | From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A be… |
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| 1991: The Year Punk Broke | Self | 1992-11-19 | David Markey’s documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances… |
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| Submit to Me | | 1985-01-01 | Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death… |
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| Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB | Himself | 2009-04-24 | An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in musi… |
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| The Butthole Surfers Movie | Self | 2023-05-01 | Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary…. |
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| Desolation Center | | 2018-01-01 | The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the inspi… |
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| Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child | Self | 2010-01-25 | A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive i… |
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| The State’s 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special | Self | 1995-10-27 | Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS…. |
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| Blank City | Himself | 2011-04-06 | In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circu… |
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| The Sparks Brothers | Self | 2021-06-18 | Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your fav… |
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