This episode of Pop Screen is about the rivalry between ’90s psych-rock revivalists The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre – and if you think that’s a niche subject for a film, that’s how Ondi Timoner’s DiG! came across before its premiere in 2004. Yet it was immediately and rightly hailed as a classic film about rock music, the nature of genius and selling out, becoming a cult classic for audiences far outside the two bands’ pre-existing fandom.
This week, Ewan from (Don’t) Listen to This returns – you have to remind him about his own podcast, he does forget things – to discuss Timoner’s fascinating career, how the film’s take on the record industry holds up in a very different landscape nearly twenty years later, and whether it’s so bad to sell out anyway. We also talk about the differences between American and British memories of the 1990s, and indulge in a treasonous fantasy about the upcoming coronation. It’s all here!
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