![Beautiful Noise: Funded by a kickstarter campaign, Beautiful Noise tracks the development and influence of shoegaze music, focussing on bands such as My Bloody Valentine, The Cocteau Twins and The Jesus And Mary Chain.]()
Beautiful Noise: Funded by a kickstarter campaign, Beautiful Noise tracks the development and influence of shoegaze music, focussing on bands such as My Bloody Valentine, The Cocteau Twins and The Jesus And Mary Chain. "They didn't sell a lot of records", says the tagline, "but everyone who heard them started a band." The film premieres at Sheffield Doc Fest on 8 June.
![PULP: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets: Directed by Florian Habicht, this documentary offers an insight into the life and career of Pulp, focusing in particular on frontman Jarvis Cocker. It's officially released on 6 June.]()
PULP: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets: Directed by Florian Habicht, this documentary offers an insight into the life and career of Pulp, focusing in particular on frontman Jarvis Cocker. It's officially released on 6 June.
![Heaven Adores You: This Elliott Smith documentary is another that was funded by a Kickstarter campaign. Smith died in 2003 from two apparently self-inflicted stab wounds to the chest, alongside a post-it note reading,]()
Heaven Adores You: This Elliott Smith documentary is another that was funded by a Kickstarter campaign. Smith died in 2003 from two apparently self-inflicted stab wounds to the chest, alongside a post-it note reading, "I'm so sorry - love, Elliott. God forgive me." With unheard songs from the late singer's archive, as well as access to Smith's close circle of friends, Heaven Adores You traverses the "dense, yet often isolating lanscapes of the three major cities he lived in." There's no official UK release date for this one yet.
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20,000 Days On Earth: "It's a world i'm creating," says Nick Cave in the first official clip for his documentary. "A world full of monsters and heroes, good guys and bad guys. Its an absurd, crazy, violent world, where people rage away and God actually exists." That doesn't really help with what the documentary's about exactly, but it's one helluva tagline. The film premiered at Sundance and will be released later this year.
![Sonic Highways: This Foo Fighters series, which will be broadcast on HBO, features a tour of US recording studios, travelling through Chicago, California, Washington D.C. and elsewhere. The trailer explains:]()
Sonic Highways: This Foo Fighters series, which will be broadcast on HBO, features a tour of US recording studios, travelling through Chicago, California, Washington D.C. and elsewhere. The trailer explains: "It all started with the idea of recording at different studios all over the country, doing something to make it new. You can tie all of these people and places together with these Sonic Highways. This is a musical map of America." There's no UK release date for this series, so you might need to catch it online.
![Bjork: Biophilia Live: This documentary chronicles the multidimensional concert based on Iceland's avant-garde icon Bjork. It's no ordinary concert film though - it's punctuated by]()
Bjork: Biophilia Live: This documentary chronicles the multidimensional concert based on Iceland's avant-garde icon Bjork. It's no ordinary concert film though - it's punctuated by "evocative animation and science and nature footage." The film's official website is taking suggestions as to where to show the film in the UK.
![What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music: Frankly, the film's title serves as synopsis enough. It features interviews with a huge wealth of artists, including Brian Eno, Debbie Harry, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers, Q-Tip and many more. It was released digitally in February.]()
What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music: Frankly, the film's title serves as synopsis enough. It features interviews with a huge wealth of artists, including Brian Eno, Debbie Harry, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers, Q-Tip and many more. It was released digitally in February.
![As The Palaces Burn: Though this film set out with the intention of being a straightforward music documentary following the career of metal band Lamb Of God, it became something far bigger, darker and more dramatic when lead singer Randy Blythe was arrested on manslaughter charges after the death of a fan he had pushed off the stage. The film was released in the UK in February, and is available to rent online now.]()
As The Palaces Burn: Though this film set out with the intention of being a straightforward music documentary following the career of metal band Lamb Of God, it became something far bigger, darker and more dramatic when lead singer Randy Blythe was arrested on manslaughter charges after the death of a fan he had pushed off the stage. The film was released in the UK in February, and is available to rent online now.
![Mistaken For Strangers: Tom Berninger chronicles his time spent as a member of the crew for The National, the band his brother Matt fronts. Hailed by documentary king Michael Moore as]()
Mistaken For Strangers: Tom Berninger chronicles his time spent as a member of the crew for The National, the band his brother Matt fronts. Hailed by documentary king Michael Moore as "one of the best documentaries about a band that I've ever seen", Mistaken For Strangers is funny, touching and unpretentious. It's released in the UK on 27 June.
![Super Duper Alice Cooper: The story of]()
Super Duper Alice Cooper: The story of "this half alien half guy... who killed chickens," also known as Alice Cooper. Using a blend of documentary archive footage, animation and rock opera, Super Duper tells the story of one of the most notorious musicians on the planet. It was released on DVD on 3 June.
