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THUMP, Vice’s electronic music and culture channel, recently launched Rave New World, a new series that explores under-the-radar parties and shows to connect viewers to different cultures around the world that live by dance music. The first episode took a look at experimental performance spaces in historic locations, including abandoned tobacco factories and salt mines, as part of the Unsound Festival in Kraków, Poland. To get a taste, watch the first episode at bit.ly/29S7uUR. For details, contact Lauren Bobek at Lauren.Bobek@Vice.com.
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RAVE NEW WORLD Director Justin Tipping’s feature debut Kicks, which premiered this summer, features a score of hip-hop classics and Bay Area favorites as he tells the story of a 15-year-old who is on a mission to recover his stolen sneakers. Written by Tipping and Joshua Beirne-Golden, Kicks, through its protagonist’s story, examines innercity life, sneaker culture and the concept of manhood. It stars newcomer Jahking Guillory as well as Christopher Meyer, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Kofi Siriboe and Mahershala Ali WHEN. Contact Kate Patterson at Kate@ BrigadeMarketing.com for more information. Just as rock & roll got a shot in the arm when new wave struck in the ’80s, the age-old art of burlesque performance has gotten a jolt, as
CREEM magazine was a springboard for so many artists who were featured in it, and photographers and writ-
ers—Lester Bangs, Robert Christgau, Lenny Kaye, Cameron Crowe, to name a few––who used it as a platform to get their start. Now, New Rose Films has launched a Kickstarter to fund a new project, Boy Howdy! The Story of CREEM: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine, to tell the story of the magazine’s 1969 launch during the throes of one of American music’s most exciting eras. With cooperation from the estate of Barry Kramer, the magazine’s founder and publisher, and his son, J.J. Kramer, who is producing the film, Boy Howdy! tells the story of how one magazine helped launch some of rock music’s most illustrious names when the rest of the world ignored them. The Kickstarter can be found at kck. st/2arR6X4, and Pam Nashel Leto can provide details at Pam@Girlie.com. The award-winning documentary Landfill Harmonic was recently released on all platforms with the help of several companies including The Film Collaborative, Emerging Pictures, Tugg, Inc., Vimeo, FilmRise and HBO Latino. The acclaimed SXSW and AFI Fest audience award-winner features the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical youth group of kids who live next to one of South America’s largest landfills. That landfill was their musical inspiration—their instruments were made entirely out of garbage and refuse pulled from it. Under music director Favio Chavez, the Recycled Orchestra was catapulted to stardom. For more information, contact Jack Song at JSong@TCDM-Associates.com.
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shown in the documentary feature film Glitter Tribe. Directed by Jon Manning and produced by Manning and Julie Livingston, the film features burlesque’s new faces, including Angelique DeVil, Isaiah Esquire, Zora Von Pavonine, Babs Jamboree and more in interviews and onstage in their Portland, OR home theater. Glitter Tribe is being submitted to the festival circuit and has no set release date yet. For details, email Heidi Vanderlee at HV@SharkPartyMedia.com.
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