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Peter Forrest — who, as P. Fluid, was lead singer and frontman of the pioneering Black rock band 24/7 Spyz — has died at the age of 64. On Jan. 14th, Forrest’s body was found badly beaten in the back of an abandoned ambulette bus in the Bronx. Forrest, who worked for the ambulette company as a driver, reportedly suffered “trauma around the body.” The New York Police Department confirmed the death to Rolling Stone, adding that the incident “is now being investigated as a homicide.”

Starting in the Eighties, 24/7 Spyz was part...

Off!, the hardcore supergroup led by singer Keith Morris and guitarist Dimitri Coats (ex-Burning Brides), have announced a run of final shows to coincide with the release of their new feature film, Free LSD.

The three final shows will take place July 18th at Lincoln Hall in Chicago (with Shellac); July 20th at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City (with Fucked Up); and July 26th at The Belasco in Los Angeles (with Surfbort).

Each of those cities will also feature an advance screening of the movie along with a Q&a: July 17th at Music Box Theatre in Chicago; July 19th at Village East by Angelika in NYC; and August 2nd at Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles. Tickets for both the shows and film screenings can be purchased here.

The movie was written and directed by Coats, with a synopsis that is described as follows in a press release:...

Fishbone are ringing in their belated 40th anniversary with a new self-titled EP, out May 26th, and the ska legends accompanied the announcement with a new single and collab with Nofx titled “Estranged Fruit.”

The track offers the best of both bands, with Fishbone joined by Nofx’s El Hefe on trumpet in the horn-laden backbone of the arrangement, and Fat Mike backing Angelo Moore’s lead vocals. There’s even some fast-paced pop punk in the track, most noticeably during the race-to-the-finish ending. Fat Mike also handled the production of the song and EP.

“‘Estranged Fruit’ is a timeless composition merging the past and present embodied by the irony of us repeating what should be in the rear view mirror of a so called evolved society that still has far to go,” commented Fishbone’s Chris Dowd, who returned to the band in 2018 after stepping away in 1994 (one of...

Just two days before Sundance Film Festival will unveil its lineup, the other major January Utah festival has released theirs. Now in its 29th iteration, next year’s Slamdance Film Festival––which will also be providing programming both in-person and online, from January 20th through 29th––has unveiled its features slate. The lineup for the festival, which opens with Moby’s Punk Rock Vegan Movie, was culled from 7,600 total submissions, 1,522 of which were features. All films selected in the Narrative Features and Documentary Features competition categories are directorial debuts without U.S. distribution, with budgets of less than 1 million Usd.

“From the streets of Seattle to the psychedelic skies of a unicorn-run dystopia, our filmmakers are transporting audiences to new dimensions with stories that explore the nuance of disability, immigration and gender. This year’s lineup represents a generation of new directors who are breaking boundaries and redefining what filmmaking...

Slamdance has announced its feature lineup and “Free LSD” as the closing night film for the 29th Slamdance Film Festival

This year’s lineup was chosen from 7,600 submissions — 1, 522 of which were features — and represents projects from 13 different countries. The selections for the Narrative Features and Documentary Features competition categories are directorial debuts without U.S. distribution, with budgets of less than 1 million.

In addition to Slamdance’s opening night film Moby’s “Punk Rock Vegan Movie,” the festival will also showcase two additional Spotlight Feature screenings: “Downwind” and “Free LSD,” which follows one man’s inter-dimensional journey where, after using an experimental drug, he is provided a glimpse into a parallel universe. The film features appearances from Keith Morris and Jack Black.

“From the streets of Seattle to the psychedelic skies of a unicorn-run dystopia, our filmmakers are transporting audiences to new dimensions with stories that explore the nuance of disability,...

The Slamdance Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 29th edition — taking place both in-person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah from January 20-26, and online on the Slamdance Channel from the 23rd to the 29th.

This year’s lineup of films from 13 countries was chosen from more than 7,600 submissions, more than 1,500 of which were features. As has been the case at each edition of Slamdance since its 1995 founding, all films selected in Narrative Features and Documentary Features competition are directorial debuts without U.S. distribution, with budgets of less than 1M Usd.

Slamdance revealed today that Dimitri Coats’ Free LSD will make its world premiere at the festival, serving as its Closing Night feature. The film featuring appearances from Keith Morris and Jack Black follows the inter-dimensional journey of a man who has used an experimental drug to cure a personal problem, thereby being provided a...

The Celebrating David Bowie tribute tour is headed back on the road this fall with a lineup that includes Todd Rundgren, Adrian Belew, Spacehog’s Royston Langdon, Fishbone’s Angelo Moore, and Jeffrey Gaines.

“David Bowie was a master,” Langdon says in a statement. “It’s impossible to put into words quite how much he taught me. It gives me a huge thrill to get to honor Mr. B. & to be a small part of this immense celebration of his life & work with these world-class musicians and everyone, who like...

For the third year in a row, veteran members of various David Bowie’s backing bands are hitting the road to play music from his vast catalog. This year’s incarnation of the A Bowie Celebration tour is lead by Spiders From Mars keyboardist Mile Garson (who played with Bowie from 1972 all the way to his final live appearance in 2006), guitarist Earl Sick, bassist Carmine Rojas, multi-instrumentalist Mark Plati and guitarist Charlie Sexton along with vocalists Bernard Fowler and Corey Glover.

The setlist switches a bit from show to show,...

It's time to break out those dancing shoes!

Goldie Hawn and Derek Hough were among the celebs on hand for the grand opening of Just Dance Los Angeles on Oct. 11. The duo posed with Dancing With the Stars alum Julz Tocker on the red carpet, and other famous faces in attendance included another DWTS pro, Sharna Burgess, as well as Haley Reinhart, Lady Victoria Hervey, Big Time Rush's James Maslow and Alfonso Ribiero.

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Janet Jackson was also dancing in the aisles, but for a very different reason -- she spent a night off from her State of the World Tour by taking in a performance of Magic Mike Live at Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Oct. 13.

Photo: Magic Mike Live Las Vegas

Pics: Rock Out With These Stars on Tour

Aaron Paul was also in Sin City that same night. He celebrated his grandmother’s 90th birthday with family, including his pregnant...

It’s been almost a year to the day since we lost David Bowie, but the rock icon and beloved creative force is still foremost in the minds of those who knew and loved him best. As Billboard reports, on Sunday evening, some of those people — including fans, friends and even former bandmates — gathered together to celebrate what would have been Bowie’s seventieth birthday for a three-hour charity concert at London’s Brixton Academy. It was an appropriately rocking and raucous event.

The show was hosted by actor (and close Bowie pal) Gary Oldman, who took the stage not only to emcee the event, but to rock out to a few of Bowie’s classics, including “Sorrow” and “The Man Who Sold the World.”

Read More: David Bowie’s ‘No Plan’ Music Video Is a Posthumous Tribute to the Departed Space Oddity — Watch

Oldman was joined by other luminaries and performers,...

Looking forward to SXSW 2015 already? Here's your first taste of the musical lineup. Jessie Ware (watch her "Say You Love Me" video below), The Dodos and Ben Kweller are just a few of the better-known artists who have been announced for the festival, which will take place in Austin, Texas from March 13-22 (the music portion is slated for March 17-22). Check out the full preliminary list of artists below, and stay tuned for updates as more names are announced. Agoraphobia (Boiro Spain) Agosto (Buenos Aires Argentina) Alvvays (Toronto Canada) Angus & Julia Stone (Sydney Australia) Babes (New Orleans La) Baby In Vain (Copenhagen Denmark) Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires (Birmingham Al) Ballet School (Berlin Germany) Ball Park Music (Sydney Australia) The Barberettes (Seoul South Korea) Courtney Barnett (Melbourne Australia) James Bay (Hitchin UK-england) Be Forest (Pesaro Italy) Big Phony (Seoul South Korea) Bishop Nehru (New York NY) Blacklist Royals...

Music festivals have never appealed to me. Especially the ones that involve camping in the dead of summer. The bands that are booked for festivals either don’t register or elicit a chuckle. Being around hundreds to thousands of people for that long sounds like one of the ten Chambers of Hell not mentioned in Big Trouble in Little China. Not to mention chronic swamp ass for days.

Six friends are headed to the Free Love Festival nestled deep in the Red Wood forest. Samantha (Jamie King) is hoping to have a good time and put her psycho right wing ex-boyfriend, and bad acid trip behind her. Samantha is excited to spend the time Not everyone is thrilled about the annual freak show. While the Mayor (Rick Overton) is eager for the revenue to fill the town coffers, Sheriff Buzz Hall (Thomas Jane) smells a rat. And they don’t...

We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Tool, Black Label Society, My Chemical Romance, Down, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mushroomhead, Devil You Know, La Dispute, Midtown, Fishbone, Energy and more. Don't touch that dial.

News

Devil You Know will release their debut album, The Beauty of Destruction, on April 29 via Nuclear Blast. The band is fronted by former Killswitch Engage vocalist Howard Jones.

Mushroomhead will release their eighth album, The Righteous & The Butterfly, on May 13th via Megaforce Records.

A New Jersey woman who sued Fishbone after frontman Angelo "Dr. Madd Vibe" Moore landed on her while stage diving has been awarded $1.4 million for compensatory and punitive damages.

Music

Listen to My Chemical Romance's "Fake Your Death" here. It appears on the bands posthumous greatest hits collection, May Death Never Stop You, which comes out March 25 via Reprise Records.

We're unsure who was the first musician with the bright idea to hurl themselves off the stage into the crowd, but according to the authoritative source known as Wikipedia, the practice was popularized by Iggy Pop. Four decades after the punk pioneer plopped his Popsomeness on the people, stage diving remains a prominent feature at live concerts. Will that ever change? On Wednesday, a Pennsylvania federal judge ordered Los Angeles-based alternative rock band Fishbone and its lead singer Angelo Moore to pay a woman nearly $1.37 million over a stage dive gone wrong. The dispute stems from a

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Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone originally screened at SXSW in 2011, and the filmmakers and the band were back in town last October to support Austin Film Society with a special screening and Q&A, as well as a sold-out show at Emo's Austin. I thoroughly enjoyed this compelling and dynamic tale of punk rock pioneers Fishbone and their rise, fall and subsequent revival -- read my review. The documentary was released on DVD this week, and is available for purchase on the Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone website. Bonus features include deleted scenes, band commentary, interview outtakes, and rare concert footage sure to please any Fishbone fan. 

During their October movie-and-music tour, I spoke with band members and frontmen Norwood Fisher and Angelo Moore -- listen to the podcast interview -- as well as filmmakers Chris Metzler and Lev Anderson. Find out how Metzler and Anderson used a...

New York, NY — The Cinema Guild is pleased to introduce Spark, a new label dedicated to releasing quality documentaries on the arts. Spark titles will be released on home video and/or digital and will cover a broad range of topics within the arts, including film, music, photography, painting, literature, architecture, dance, etc. The first releases to go out under Spark include “Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone”, the raucous history of the pioneering all-Black rock band Fishbone, and “The Woman with the Five Elephants,” winner of the Sterling Award at Silverdocs, a documentary that unravels the mystery behind the life and work of the world’s greatest translator of Russian literature. Both titles will be available to own February 21, 2012. “We’re very excited about launching Spark,” commented Ryan Krivoshey, Director of Distribution, “There’s a great demand for docs that tell compelling, inspiring stories about creativity and ingenuity and...

NBC is now checking the songs the Roots play on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon after the band performed an off-color song during Michele Bachmann’s show appearance last month.

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of The Roots says now he’s “gotta clear a lot of the song choices” with the network.

“It’s still a comedy show, so they promise not to step on my toes or that type of thing, but they definitely want to know the title of the song, the subject matter of the song, can it be seen as an insult?” he said in an interview Thursday.

Filmmakers Chris Metzler and Lev Anderson were in town recently to bring the culture that shaped the personal stories of the black genre-breaking band Fishbone in the compelling film, Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone -- read my review here. Narrated by Laurence Fishburne, viewers are taken through a musical and intimate journey of Fishbone as they face the challenges of a band democracy, fiercely independent artists, and the music industry machine.

Personal interviews include musical artists and actors Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Gwen Stefani (No Doubt), Ice-t, and many others, including the dynamic and determined frontmen Angelo Moore and Norwood Fisher. I joined the pair on their tour bus for an interview while they were in town last month for a special Austin Film Society screening and show at Emo's Austin.

Hear what Angelo Moore had to say about the impact of digital technology and his ode to Wall Street,...

Titling this particular documentary Everyday Sunshine serves multiple purposes. First, of course, is that “Everyday Sunshine” is the name of one of Fishbone’s most well-known songs. However, the title is also at once both an ironic counterpoint on the punk fusion band’s tragic career, as well as a commentary on the band’s core members’ undying struggle to see the silver lining that’s continually just out of their sight.

Yes, filmmakers Chris Metzler and Lev Anderson are forced to follow the same trajectory as other music documentaries: An upstart young band quickly become superstars only to be derailed from a promising career thanks to an uncaring music industry and turmoil from within its own ranks. The band then hits its lowest point, only to begin its long, difficult struggle to get back on top.

That storyline is impossible to avoid because that’s exactly what happened to Fishbone.

[Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone will screen in Austin tonight (Oct. 25) -- details are at the end of this review.]

Between deejaying college radio stations and also living in the heart of Montrose in Houston during the 1980s and 1990s, my nights were dedicated to the diverse music scene. New wave genre was my first love, but it was the upbeat tempo of ska and nitty-gritty sounds of punk that got me moving to the dance floor and from time to time, to the mosh pit. The creative cacophony of Austin bands including Bad Mutha Goose, Retarted Elf, The Big Boys, and Bad Brains created a mesmerizing wall of sound, moving the audience in a mass of sweaty, flailing bodies with an incredible outlet of energy.

Many of these bands were influenced by Fishbone, a black punk band from the streets of South Central Los Angeles. Band members sported dreadlocks and Mohawks as well as the ska/mod fashion, although sometimes they wore only their musical instruments. Fishbone "brought the Funk to the Punk.

Yes, we're in the midst of Austin Film Festival. But there are other film things going on if you're not attending Aff. On Monday night, Austin Cinematheque is showing a (free!) screening of Werner Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser at the Texas Union Theater, 

The next Essential Cinema screening in the "Goin' for Baroque" series is Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover on Tuesday at Alamo South Lamar. Starring Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon and Richard Bohringer about a bored wife considering an affair, this is the only movie I ever stopped watching after a few minutes back in the days when VHS was king, so I need to give it one more try.

Love music and documentaries? Directors Lev Anderson, Chris Meztler are bringing thier doc Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone to town on Wednesday and will be in attendance along with...

The 10th annual Lausanne Underground Film Festival is a truly epic film event with an immense lineup of the strangest, sexiest, most grotesque, oddball and downright freakish movies from all over the world — from modern underground treats to classic cult movies of yesteryear.

The fest officially begins on Oct. 15 with a special live performance by the legendary Diamanda Galas. But the film festivities run from Oct. 17-23, starting with the grand opening of an exhibition and retrospective of the films by Ericka Beckman.

The full film lineup, which is presented below, is a massive mix of underground greatness, but here are some of the highlights:

Gross-Out Flicks:

Chop, dir. Trent Haaga.

The Taint, dir. Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson.

Calibre 9, dir. Jean-Christian Tassy.

The Bunny Game, dir. Adam Rehmeier

Trippy Movies:

Profane, dir. Usama Alshaibi

The Oregonian, dir. Calvin Lee Reeder

Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass, dir.

The 14th annual Antimatter Film Festival in Vancouver, BC, Canada is an epic 9-day event of expanded cinema performances, feature-length documentaries an a ton of experimental short films and festivals.

There are seven feature documentaries screening including Marie Losier‘s hit The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye, a profile of the pandrogenous entity, Breyer P-Orridge; and Chris Metzler & Lev Kalman’s popular Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, about the legendary ska punk band. Plus, there’s Adele Horne’s And Again and more.

On the expanded cinema front, Antimatter welcomes retrospectives of Kerry Laitala, who will be presenting a selection of her 3D light and motion experiments; and Roger Beebe will screen a series of multi-projector performances.

As for the short films, the real highlight of the fest is a screening of Jaimz Asmundson‘s trippy and powerful The Magus, a fictional/documentary hybrid of his father’s Satanic painting process.

“Everyday Sunshine: The Story Of Fishbone”

A documentary by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler

Opens in NY at ReRun Theater in Brooklyn on October 7

Opens in La at Laemmle Sunset 5 on October 21

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Fishbone; their new CD is being released on October 11

Pale Griot Films are proud to present the Us Theatrical release of Everyday Sunshine: The Story Of Fishbone, a documentary directed by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler. The film had its World Premiere at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, and went on to screen at Mill Valley and SXSW film festivals, among many others. Everyday Sunshine will open on October 7, 2011 at the ReRun Theater in Brooklyn, NY, and on October 21, 2011 at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in Los Angeles, CA. Many other cities (including Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, DC) will follow. Celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, the band will also release their much-anticipated...

The 11th annual Nevada City Film Festival, running Aug. 18-21, is four nights crammed full with short films, several feature-length documentaries, one dramatic feature, stand-up comedy performances and more surprises, all nestled within the rolling hills of Northern California.

The fest opens with the feature documentary Someplace With a Mountain, directed by Steve Goodall and narrated by Chevy Chase. The film tells the story of the embattled people of the Puluwat atoll who are besieged by the Pacific Ocean itself. Rising waters due to global warming are making their land slowly disappear beneath the waves.

Other feature docs include music-based films We Are Wizards, directed by Josh Koury, about the oddball phenomenon of rock bands that only craft songs about the world of Harry Potter; and Everyday Sunshine, directed by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler, which profiles the legendary ska punk band Fishbone that continues to bring their enthusiastic music to the masses.

Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek

(from the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival

Directed/Written by: Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler

Featuring: Kendall Jones, Norwood Fisher, Chris Dowd, Phillip Fisher, “Dirty” Walt Kibby II, Angelo Moore, Ice-t, Flea, Tim Robbins, Branford Marsalis, Perry Farrell and Gwen Stefani; narrated by: Laurence Fishburne

The ska/punk/funk-fuelled documentary by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler begins at a frantic pace, exuding the energy of a band that mixed dozens of types of music within a single song, and employs interviews with one industry giant after another to cast an everlasting impression of the band’s influence. Of course, time always passes, and the band Fishbone itself, with some members still singing, some slinging and some seemingly miles away, is in various states of a funk, playing to small Eastern European audiences and left wondering whether they’d do it the same if they had the opportunity.

Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek

(from the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival

Directed/Written by: Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler

Featuring: Kendall Jones, Norwood Fisher, Chris Dowd, Phillip Fisher, “Dirty” Walt Kibby II, Angelo Moore, Ice-t, Flea, Tim Robbins, Branford Marsalis, Perry Farrell and Gwen Stefani; narrated by: Laurence Fishburne

The ska/punk/funk-fuelled documentary by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler begins at a frantic pace, exuding the energy of a band that mixed dozens of types of music within a single song, and employs interviews with one industry giant after another to cast an everlasting impression of the band’s influence. Of course, time always passes, and the band Fishbone itself, with some members still singing, some slinging and some seemingly miles away, is in various states of a funk, playing to small Eastern European audiences and left wondering whether they’d do it the same if they had the opportunity.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

Chicago – “Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone” aspires to be more than an episode of “Behind the Music” and succeeds largely due to the amazing talent of the band it chronicles, the stunning, one-and-only Fishbone. It’s common for a critic to call a great, underrated band influential but Fishbone doesn’t really qualify because what they did was so unique that it’s impossible to copy.

The documentary about them, playing Saturday night, April 16th, 2011, at the Chicago International Music & Movies Festival, expresses the band’s incredible individuality while also not quite getting a finger on what worked about them, why they weren’t bigger, or what happened later. It’s an interesting piece of filmmaking mostly due to the fact that Fishbone rules, but it’s a little light on subject matter for the length of a theatrical documentary.

Read Brian Tallerico’s full review of “Everyday Sunshine” in our reviews section.

Still on the festival circuit, Everyday Sushine: The Story of Fishbone makes a pit stop at the Atlanta Film Festival this month.

The documentary, directed by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler, covers the rise and fall of the popular musical group Fishbone, an 80′s underground group known for their ska-punk-funk sound.

The film delves into many issues including why they never received mainstream success as their white counterparts did and their never-ending dilemma of being “too white” for black audiences and “too black” for white audiences.

Synopsis:

Everyday Sunshine is a documentary about Fishbone, musical pioneers rocking on the margins of pop culture for the past 25 years. From the streets of South Central-Los Angeles and the competitive Hollywood music scene of the 1980′s, the band rose to prominence, only to fall apart when on the verge of “making it.”

Suave but serious, Laurence Fishburne narrates Everyday Sunshine, an entertaining cinematic...

The 8th annual Calgary Underground Film Festival is set to run on April 11-17 at The Plaza Theater with 18 feature films and documentaries, several live performances, a classic cartoon extravaganza and Cuff’s legendary 48-hour Movie Making Challenge.

Sentient car tires. Wrongly accused hillbillies. Post-apocalyptic vampire hunters. Rage-filled neighbors. Real-life superheroes. Angry Star Wars fans. Those are just a few of the oddball characters you’ll find in the Cuff lineup below that includes festival hits such as Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil, The Woman, Superheroes, A Horrible Way to Die, Shut Up Little Man!, Rubber and more.

Some of the special events include: Not only a screening of Chris Metzler and Lev Anderson’s documentary Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, but a live concert by the band after the screening. Plus, there will be a wild live burlesque show being held as a fundraiser for the upcoming film...

In the midst of one of the biggest music festivals in the world, Bob Forrest wanted the music to be shut off. "Look at this fucking thing that's going on," he asks me, gazing back in the direction of Austin's infamous 6th Street. He laughs, "Do you want to be over there in that fucking thing?"

Though Forrest is still an active musician, there was a time when he was right in the middle of the fray. As the frontman of Thelonious Monster, he came up with a group of Los Angeles bands including the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fishbone (also the subject of an excellent documentary at SXSW called "Everyday Sunshine") that ruled the L.A. scene in the early '80s with a sound that found the rhythm in chaos described as "drunk rock" by one critic. And Forrest was drunk, and high for most of it,...

Directors: Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler Writers: Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler Starring: Laurence Fishburne (narrator), Norwood Fisher, Angelo Moore, Chris Dowd, Dirty Walt Kibby II, David Kahne, Ice T, Larren Jones, Kendall Jones, Flea, Gwen Stefani, George Clinton, Mike Watt, Vernon Reid, Questlove, Dazireen Moore Let’s start at the very beginning...and the Black history of Los Angeles leads effortlessly right into the meeting of the original core members of Fishbone at a predominantly Caucasian high school. From there John Norwood Fisher (bass, vocals), Phillip "Fish" Fisher (drums), Angelo Moore (vocals, saxophone), Kendall Jones (guitar), "Dirty" Walter A. Kibby II (vocals, trumpet) and Christopher Dowd (keyboards, trombone, vocals) plunged right into the white La punk scene of the early 1980s. As a band, they were a pure democracy; everyone with their own personality and input, creating a sound that is still to this very day an unclassifiable hodgepodge of musical styles.

“Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone,” a documentary on the creation and life of the funk-punk-rock band Fishbone is more than a simple tale about a successful band as it's truly a commentary on the social and economic movements of the past 30 years. Directed by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler, “Everyday Sunshine” is a compelling documentary for both music and film enthusiasts. Narrated by Laurence Fishburne, its in-depth interviews with band members, friends and fellow musicians from the punk/ska scene of the late 1980’s make it so you don’t have to be a fan of Fishbone to be enthralled…...

The Cmj Music Marathon and Film Festival is in full swing and The San Francisco Documentary Festival  is wrapping up, but you can still catch the entertaining and enlightening new documentary Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone from Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler at both of these great events.  At  The San Francisco Documentary Festival the film will be screening tonight Thursday October 21st at 9:30Pm at The Roxie Theater.  At Cmj in NYC, it will be screening tomorrow, October 22nd at 4:00Pm at the Norwood Private Club with a concert by Fishbone at 9:00Pm at (Le)...

Coming to the legendary Cmj Music Marathon and Film Festival, which opens today October 19th, is an event you really don't want to miss out on.  One of the greatest performance bands of all time, the Los Angeles born legends Fishbone, led by the cool brothers Angelo Moore and Norwood Fisher, will be at (Le) Poisson Rouge this Friday night, October 22nd for a special performance following the screening of the new documentary by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler, Everyday Sunshine:  The Story of Fishbone.  The screening will be at The Norwood Private Club at 4:00Pm with the...

Coming to The 6th Annual Tucson Film and Music Festival tonight is an event unlike any you will see on a normal Tucson night.  One of the greatest performance bands of all time, the Los Angeles born legends Fishbone, led by the cool brothers Angelo Moore and Norwood Fisher, will be at The Rialto Theatre tonight for a special performance following the screening of the new documentary by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler, Everyday Sunshine:  The Story of Fishbone.  Starting with the screening at 9:00Pm and followed by the Fishbone show, this is going to be an energetic,...

One of my favorite films from the festival trail this year is here Tucson, and it will be a film and music event unlike any you have seen.  The new documentary by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler called Everyday Sunshine:  The Story of Fishbone will play at 9:00Pm at The Rialto Theatre, immediately followed by a live performance from Fishbone.  If you don't know about Fishbone, you have a chance to get the story and a live performance by one of the most original and energetic live acts ever.  I had the opportunity to recently talk with the film's co-directors and...

It’s significant (and perhaps inevitable) that “Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone” premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival. As the documentary describes, the band was born of a particular time and place: 1980s Los Angeles, when the county was attempting to undo years of segregation by busing black kids from South Central to the San Fernando Valley to go to school. There, the R&B and funk of Parliament-Funkadelic and Rick James that they were listening to in the ’hood met the rock of Rush and Led Zeppelin that were popular in the Valley. Throw into the mix the emerging SoCal punk scene, and Fishbone was born — a black punk ska hybrid that continues to defy categorization.

But the very characteristics that made the group unique were also its biggest hindrances to success. First of all, there were a lot of them. And they operated as a democracy,...

It’s significant (and perhaps inevitable) that “Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone” premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival. As the documentary describes, the band was born of a particular time and place: 1980s Los Angeles, when the county was attempting to undo years of segregation by busing black kids from South Central to the San Fernando Valley to go to school. There, the R&B and funk of Parliament-Funkadelic and Rick James that they were listening to in the ’hood met the rock of Rush and Led Zeppelin that were popular in the Valley. Throw into the mix the emerging SoCal punk scene, and Fishbone was born — a black punk ska hybrid that continues to defy categorization.

But the very characteristics that made the group unique were also its biggest hindrances to success. First of all, there were a lot of them. And they operated as a democracy,...

Saturday night brought a lot of different kinds of films to the Los Angeles Film Festival. There was everything from documentaries about elephants, circus’, zeppelins, to dark comedies from the U.K and dramas from China and Romania. After the jump you can read my thoughts on the comedy short Successful Alcoholics starring Lizzy Caplan and Tj Miller, the dark drama Judge from China, a documentary about a trip around a world in a Zeppelin and the affair that took place on it, and a documentary which tells the story of the wildly inventive and influential band Fishbone. My write-up after the jump:

Successful Alcoholics

This short film about a couple played by Tj Miller (Cloverfield) and Lizzy Caplan (Party Down) who happen to be successful alcoholics (hence the title) has been gaining a lot of buzz ever since it premiered at this years Sundance Film Festival and it’s easy to see why.

Put on your boogie shoes and get your funk on at Frida’s this Friday night for Fishbone’s first live appearance in Wichita, with the Key Elements and Rudy Love Jr & The Getdown!

Tickets are on sale now. ($15 in advance, $20 at the door) and there’ll be some exciting announcements about the 2010 Tallgrass Film Festival.

Fishbone is an American band that plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, funk metal and more. The band was formed in 1979 in Los Angeles by John Norwood Fisher (bass, vocals) at 2010 Chariton where he and Phillip “Fish” Fisher (drums) his brother lived; also, Angelo Moore, who sometimes uses the stage name “Dr. Madd Vibe” (vocals, saxophones ranging from sopranino to bass, and theremin), Kendall Jones (guitar), “Dirty” Walter A. Kibby III (vocals, trumpet) and Christopher Dowd (keyboards, trombone, vocals). The group came from the same Los Angeles scene that spawned Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction.

David and Flora in Lisa Leeman’s One Lucky Elephant The Los Angeles Film Festival will take place from June 17-27. Camera, Camera: (Director Malcolm Murray Writer Michael Meyer, Producer Josh Haner.) This gorgeously shot, poetic documentary, set in the free-for-all playground of Laos, gazes at the ex-pats and tourists who live out their fantasies of the "exotic East" through the lenses of their omnipresent cameras. World Premiere Circo – USA/Mexico: (Director Aaron Schock, Producers Aaron Schock, Sally Jo Fifer, Jannat Gargi.) The Ponce family – who have owned a traveling circus for over one hundred years – find themselves struggling to survive a growing family conflict and the severe economic downturn in this beautifully crafted documentary. World Premiere Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone: [...]...

There are plenty of films to be excited about at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, but sadly they’ll probably be overshadowed by one. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will make its world debut at the festival on June 24th, six days before the film’s release date. However, the screening is invitation-only. How do you get an invitation? I have no idea. Maybe if you sign a contract saying your shrieking won’t rise above a certain decibel level.

As for the other films that aren’t invitation-only, there’s also the Sundance hit The Kids Are Alright, the closing night film Despicable Me, the Duplass Brother’s Cyrus, Neil Marshall’s Centurion, the education documentary Waiting for Superman, and Golden Lion-winner Lebanon.

Hit the jump to check out the full line-up. The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival will from June 17 – 27.

Here’s the full line-up. For more details,...

Like the headline says, the complete lineup for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival has been announced and it's a fascinating, eclectic mix. How happy am I to see music doc Separado! in there? Pretty damn happy, as it's one of my absolute favorites of the year and has been resoundingly overlooked.  Read the complete announcement below!

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Los Angeles (May 4, 2010) - Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American...

Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American and international cinema and providing the movie-loving public with access to critically acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals, and emerging talent from around the world.

The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 40 countries. This year, the Festival received more than 4,700 submissions from filmmakers around the world. The final selections represent 28 World, North American, and U.S. premieres, which more...

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- Focus Features' The Kids Are All Right to Kick Off Festival   -

- World Premiere of Universal Pictures' 3-D CGI Feature Despicable Me Selected for Closing Night   -

- Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to have World Premiere -

- Galas include Animal Kingdom, Cyrus, Mahler on the Couch, Revolución,& Waiting for Superman   -

Los Angeles (May 4, 2010) - Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing...

Christofer "C-Money" Welter was part of John Brown's Body for years and is currently the trumpet player and keyboardist for alterna-reggae rockers Slightly Stoopid. But now, the SoCal native is set to release his debut solo effort, "Family Business," which finds him collaborating with G. Love, Angelo Moore and Dre Gibson of Fishbone, and Kyle "Stoopid" McDonald of Slightly Stoopid, among others.

On the album, produced and co-written by Craig Welsch aka Top Rankin, C-Money leaves his harder-rocking day job behind to fuse sounds of hip-hop, jazz, and funk for a a fresh-sounding down-tempo mix of modern reggae. C-Money said he found himself wanting to create more new music whenever he was off the road, which, through live jam sessions, led him to experimenting with the sounds on his solo effort.

"It's like a carpenter going home and building a deck for his house," C-Money says of how the album came about.

Underoath, Shooter Jennings, Forever the Sickest Kids and others brave the weather for the punk festival's latest stop.

By Gil Kaufman

All Time Low's Jack Barakat at the Warped Tour in Cincinnati on Wednesday

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Cincinnati — It takes more than a little Liberty-spike-melting rain — Ok, an hour-plus torrential downpour with mega-flashes of lightning — to wash out the Vans Warped Tour '09. With a crowd undeterred by the weather, the 15th annual punk extravaganza rolled up on a steamy Wednesday afternoon to the Riverbend Amphitheatre with a typically eclectic mix of old-school and new-school punk, plenty of hardcore, tons of screamo, a dash of ska, a dusting of hip-hop and ... whatever crunkcore is.

As Warped — the longest-running summer festival tour in the U.S. — continues to evolve, one thing remains clear: No genre is safe. Where in years past screamo and metalcore bubbled up as the predominant sounds of the day,...