Other Music (2020)
The Very Best
8.0
The sad demise of New York's best record store
Movie
United States of America
English
Documentary
2020
PULOMA BASU, ROB HATCH-MILLER
Benicio Del Toro, Bill Callahan, Brian Chase
83 min
What it's about
A documentary highlighting the 20 year history of influential indie record store Other Music in Manhattan's East Village.
The take
This immersive documentary is about a beloved independent record store that opened in front of a major music chain in Manhattan in 1995. Its founders called it Other Music, a jab at the chain and a reference to the music it would carry.
Other Music would go on to become a mecca that welcomes music fanatics from around the world. Its clerks would become legendary for their shaman-like knowledge, many famous bands would have their start at shows in the store, and Other Music would even re-issue artists who were forgotten.
But in today’s hostile world towards independent cultural institutions, can anything, however influential or successful it may be, live?
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