Product Details

• Actors: Anavan, Bacon Tears Up Business, Bizzart
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sounds Are Active
• DVD Release Date: November 28, 2006
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000J3Q12O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #359,523 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

L.A. Times

"Frenetic... the spirit of this über-independent effort can't be denied"- Ann Powers, Chief Pop Music Critic

Product Description

40 BANDS 80 MINUTES! The story of the L.A. Underground

New music from over 50+ cutting-edge bands

Directed by Sean Carnage

In the tradition of underground rock movies like THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION and URGH! A MUSIC WAR, comes an instant cult-classic: 40 BANDS 80 MINUTES!

On one night in Hollywood, over forty of Los Angeles' most amazing, experimental and eccentric bands join together with one daring goal: to present their uncompromising musical visions to the world... in two minute blasts! Using shared equipment, each band has only one chance to get it right. No second takes allowed.

Includes performances from ABE VIGODA, ANAVAN, BIZZART, CAPTAIN AHAB, FIREWORKS, HARASSOR, HEALTH, I HEART LUNG, TOXIC LOINCLOTH, as well as solo and duo performances by members of acclaimed bands MIKA MIKO, FRIENDS FOREVER and CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, plus the legendary WIVES in their LAST SHOW EVER--all captured live with multiple cameras and audiophile-quality sound!

These bands fuse electronic, rock, dance, metal, jazz, noise and punk within one amazing community. This is your glimpse into the future of music... This is 40 BANDS 80 MINUTES!

All-region DVD includes two movies:
-40 BANDS 80 MINUTES! feature
-10 BANDS 20 MINUTES! (all the bands that wouldn't fit in the feature)

Plus:
-Behind-the-scenes of 40 BANDS 80 MINUTES! featurette
-A documentary short culled from the production
-Karen Centerfold: Live in Hollywood
-2 audio commentaries with the director Sean Carnage, crew & bands
-MONDAY NIGHT MUSIC: an L.A. underground music scene photo gallery


Complete band list:
Abe Vigoda, The Amazements, Anavan, Asthmatique, Bacon Tears Up Business, Bavab Bavab, Bipolar Bear, Bizzart vs. Demonslayer, Camarillo Blues Triangle, Captain Ahab, William Caruso's Wet Hot Social Anxiety, Karen Centerfold, Christ With Braces, Clowns and Fetuses, Creekbird, Debaser, Dog Shit Taco, Dommm, Erebus Nyx & Styx, Explogasm, Extreme Dubble Bubble, Faux For Real, Fireworks, Gowns, Kate Hall & Elijah Forrest, Halloween Swim Team, Harasser, William C. Harrington, Health, The Health Club, I Heart Lung, I Rape Nick Lachey, Lovetongueattack, Mitchell Brown, Naomi, Nosajthing, The Outfit, Parkinsons, Slutty Knuckles, Sykora, Three, Toxic Loincloth, Unwrinkled Doctor, Veer Right Young Pastor, Warm Climate, Weekend Warrior, Rob Williams, White Trash Firecracker, Whitman, Wives, Xanaar

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Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Enjoyable, April 16, 2007

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T. Lake - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 40 Bands/80 Minutes! (DVD)

I really enjoyed this film. It captures some awesome performances, some hillarious moments, and some performances that need to be seen/heard to be believed. Anyone who has sat a half hour through a band they didn't like will find this film refreshing. You don't like the band thats playing now? wait 2 minutes and laugh your way through it. There is no guessing what the next band will bring.
I really liked the whole feel of the film, everyone involved seemed very connected to eachother, and to the scene/enviroment they created. I felt echoes of my own town's local noise scene throughout. I would highly reccomend getting the film, getting some friends over, and watching the strangest show you've ever seen.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Punch Yourself in the Crotch as Hard as you Can", April 15, 2007

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Stephe DK "American Folk Hero" (A state of disbelief) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 40 Bands/80 Minutes! (DVD)

The only bad thing about Sean Carnage's rockumentary/ performance experiment is the feeling of regret you'll have that you didn't get to participate in this totally insane evening. 40 bands each given 2 minutes to perform- and these groups are some of the strangest you're likely to see in one sitting. Unsung luminaries like Whitman, Captain Ahab, and Gowns give (presumably) their feature film debuts while all kinds of other chaos ensues- including a man making a sandwich with his feet! Captures the fun and oddity of a night with the new weird underground, as well as providing a useful document/primer for anybody going to L.A. who likes bands on labels like Wantage, Load, and Bulb.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "Let's do it again...", April 15, 2007

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James - See all my reviews

This review is from: 40 Bands/80 Minutes! (DVD)

Boy, what a night. On one hand, you really feel the weariness of that night as this film chugs along; I feel for the young lady of Il Corral who worked the whole night keeping time and, somehow, her humor as she policed over fifty sets into the morning. Yet with some pretty fun editing, the youthful, awkward, playful personality and musical openness of the venue and its audience weaves in and around the various acts, quick interviews and intermissions.

As one would expect with so many performances, I found them rather hit and miss--some leave quite a mark, while others drag you through their two minutes as through broken glass mixed in mud. The good ones, though--and the idea of the thing--make this documentary worth sitting through... in not too inebriated or anesthetized a state, so you can make mental notes of the several artists worth looking up.

Sean Carnage and those who helped with this project did a professional job, remarkable considering the number of faces captured and the messiness and potential chaos of a semi-planned event at a semi-wild Los Angeles hole-in-the-wall. I suggest other cities join the fun; all-comer samplings like this should come out every few years.

Addendum:
Among the artists I particularly enjoyed, I recall:
- Captain Ahab - opening with the song/rant "Punch Yourself in the Crotch as Hard as You Can"...
- Bizzart vs. Demonslayer - cheerleading chant to freestyle rap over huge buzzing, pulsing noise...
- I Heart Lung - baffling free-jazzish drum & guitar, puts a smile on my face...
- Nosajthing - perhaps my favorite set, fun, danceable electronic/laptop noise...