Dig!, Ondi Timoner’s documentary about frenemy bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize.
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At the height of its failure, every day was Altamont for the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the San Francisco outfit founded in 1990 by Anton Newcombe, the Klaus Kinski of psychedelic rock. Just in time ...
The Brian Jonestown Massacre have announced an extensive 40-date North American tour in two legs: September will blanket the East Coast and Midwest, while November will hit the Southwest and West ...
I have been in this business for a long time. And in that time I have realized many of my professional dreams. But one dream persists. It’s a modest dream, but it is mine: I want to write the liner ...
Dig!, a documentary about two bands – The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols – is a musical trainwreck, equal parts romantic comedy and horror film that follows the highs and lows of being ...
Back in 1996, young filmmaker Ondi Timoner had an ambitious plan: She would follow 10 young underground rock bands for one year and film them, as they all reached for their respective grip on a brass ...
Back in the mid-’90s, before either the Dandy Warhols or the Brian Jonestown Massacre had really been discovered, the two retro-hip, 1960s-adoring bands were best pals. At that time, filmmaker Ondi ...
“This is hell out here,” Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe says over the phone from Nashville. “It’s just so fuckin’ humid. It completely negated my shower.” Despite the sweaty ...