Music / Shows

  • BANGS

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    Lance Bangs is one of our favorite filmmakers. “Bangs” is his series of short documentaries about all kinds of stuff, mainly concerning the follies and foibles of the music world.

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  • MUSIC WORLD

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    VBS spans the globe on an endless quest for good tunes, and the weird and sorted scenes that surround them.

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  • PRACTICE SPACE

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    In Practice Space we invade the dark caves where bands hone their craft and ask them probing questions about their art and other stuff.

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  • PRACTICE SPACE SEASON 2

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    At long last, VBS embarks on another round of raiding our favorite bands’ private sanctums and observing their music at its most intimate and rehearsal-y.

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  • SOFT FOCUS

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    On Soft Focus, Ian Svenonius tenderly interrogates musicians whom we revere and admire. Shot on location in the venerable Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

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  • SOFT FOCUS AT ATP

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    Ian Svenonius heads out to the Catskills to challenge, probe, and enlighten our favorite artists at this year’s ATP New York Festival.

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  • SOFT FOCUS SEASON 3

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    Ian Svenonius returns to America for another round of conversational jiu-jitsu with some of the shining lights of the US musical underground.

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  • SOFT FOCUS UK

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    Ian Svenonius takes his inquisitive mind to the UK, the nation responsible for bringing us mod, ska, skiffle, punk, techno, goth, glam, skinheads, racist skinheads, and… [sigh] grebo.

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  • SPIKE SPENDS SATURDAY WITH...

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    Cinematic wunderguy Spike Jonze ends his week by hanging out all day with someone special. Who will it be next Saturday? Will it be you?

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  • SUBLIME FREQUENCIES

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    Musical dispatches from around the globe filmed and curated by former Sun City Girl Alan Bishop and Hisham Mayet of the Sublime Frequencies record label.

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  • VBS MUSIC SPECIALS

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    You know what’s great? Music. Here are a bunch of awesome musical things we shot that didn’t fit in with any of our other series. You know, stuff like concerts and junk.

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  • VBS VS.

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    VBS challenges our favorite bands to a wide variety of sports that we’re secretly really good at. (Shhhh!) The winners drink for free.

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