Johanna Divine is a writer and musician whose Southern roots – from Tennessee to Texas, Florida to Louisiana – have inspired a soulful and wide-ranging body of work. Her debut 2010 recording Mile High Rodeo was called “absolutely superb” by BBC’s Bob Harris, and “an instant Americana classic” by Joel Okida. Divine received accolades for her songwriting from Robert Plant and from Michelle Shocked, who invited Divine to join her 2010-2011 tour. In the same year, she brought her original musical, Le Reve de Marionettes, to the New (…)
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The Odessa Club Rockumentary presents LoudQuietLoud
The band that inspired some of the most innovative rock acts of the new millennium reunites to conquer the globe 12 years after calling it quits, and filmmaker Steven Cantor is there to capture all the low-lights and highlights of their tentative reunion in a probing documentary exploring the re-birth of Gen-X alternative giants the Pixies. Plagued by personal problems from the beginning but driven to create such classic albums as Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, Frank Black, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago, and David Lovering smashed convention (…)
The Odessa Club Rockumentary presents It Might Get Loud
It Might Get Loud is a documentary by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. It explores the history of the electric guitar, focusing on the careers and styles of Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White. The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, and played at both Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009. It is considered ‘an affectionate tribute to rock’s most distinctive instrument, It Might Get Loud is insightful and musically satisfying’. According to Phil Alexander, who gave the film a four (…)
The Odessa Club Rockumentary presents Mr. Mojo Risin’ (The Story of L.A. Woman)
Mr. Mojo Risin’: The Story of L.A. Woman is the story of the making of the Doors’ last album with Jim Morrison . 2011 is the 40th anniversary of the album’s release and this program goes into detail of how the album came about, its recording and what was happening to the band at the time. The story is told through new interviews with the three surviving Doors: Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore plus contributions from Jac Holzman, founder of their label Elektra Records, (…)
The Odessa Club Rockumentary presents Stop Making Sense
Over the course of three nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983, filmmaker Jonathan Demme joined creative forces with cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth and Talking Heads… and miracles occurred. Following a staging concept by singer-guitarist David Byrne, this euphoric concert film transcends that all-too-limited genre to become the greatest film of its kind. A guaranteed cure for anyone’s blues, it’s a celebration of music that never grows old, fueled by the polyrhythmic pop-funk precision that was a Talking Heads trademark, and lit from within by the (…)
