I Need That Record!
The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store
(77 min) 2008

with filmmaker Brendan Toller

Sunday, December 15, 2013
at 3:00 pm

at Historic Northampton

Filmmaker Brendan Toller
will attend the screening to answer questions and discuss his work.

I Need That Record! The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store (77 min) 2008 is "an elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection - why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade," (Jonathan Perry, Boston Globe). A tour-de-force tale of greed, media consolidation, homogenized radio, big box stores, downloading, and technological shifts in the music industry told through candid interviews, crestfallen record store owners, startling statistics, and eye-popping animation. Fat cats or our favorite record stores? Featuring: Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Ian Mackaye of Dischord Records Fugazi/Minor Threat, activist/author Noam Chomsky, Mike Watt of the Minutemen, Lenny Kaye guitarist of the Patti Smith Group, Chris Frantz of the Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club, guitar composer Glenn Branca, Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers, Pat Carney of the Black Keys, punk author Legs McNeil, rock photographer Bob Gruen, BP Helium guitarist from Of Montreal, and many independent record stores across the United States.

Brendan Toller is a New York City based filmmaker. His first feature documentary, I Need That Record! has played around the world at over 60 film festivals, centers, and events (Melbourne International Film Festival, Independent Film Festival of Boston, Raindance UK).

I Need That Record! riled unprecedented sell-out riots at the National Film Board of Canada, beat out Davis Guggenheim's It Might Get Loud for the lauded Audience Award at Melbourne International Film Festival and has over 60,000 views and climbing on Netflix Instant. Brendan’s work has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Wire, Pitchfork, The Onion and Dazed & Confused Korea. Toller's work has received support from the New York Foundation for the Arts.