UVB-76, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel's TechArts for Girls Program, recently released a new music video for their song "2 if by Sea."

Squeaky Wheel's TechArts for Girls Program has been running since 1999 and is"a community action project that encourages girls from the city of Buffalo and Erie County to receive an affordable hands-on education in computers, technology and media literacy." As part of the advanced experimental video workshop, led by teaching artist, Alice Alexandrescu, a group of students listened to the song and then collaborated with UVB-76 to produce the video with a green screen and a collection of found footage. Students individually edited the footage and collectively compiled the final video.

With everyone donning UVB-76's trademark white hazmat suits, the duo and the girls dance around the shifting images on the green screen. The result is a fun video that captures both the song and the overall playful aesthetic of UVB-76's consistently inventive and inspiring music.

Part of the monthly film series "exploring outsiders of culture through films that have bypassed the theaters and ended up at your local pub," Squeaky Wheel and Allen Street Hardware will be showing the documentary, In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey. 

The documentary examines the life of one of American music's foundational figures, John Fahey. Fahey's work as both a musician and musicologist has deeply impacted our understanding of Delta Blues, Appalachian Bluegrass and New Orleans Jazz and whose influence is felt in musicians across the spectrum including figures like Jim O'Rourke and Sonic Youth. Directed by James Cullingham, the documentary combines recorded performances and interviews, the documentary is billed as a musically charged tribute to a tremendously influential composer, guitarist, author and provocateur."

Tonight's program does not just include what looks to be a very interesting documentary but also includes an additional short film on Wilco's lead guitarist, Nels Cline, Approximately Nels Cline. And if that is not enough for you, there will also be a performance from one of Buffalo's own young jack of all trades/folk wizard, Nicky Gordon. The event is free for members of Squeaky Wheel and only $7 for non-members, so this is really a great deal for what promises to be a night of great music and information about music.

Squeaky Wheel and Allen St. Hardware present the SQUEAKEASY Film Series: In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey
Featuring a performance by Nicky Gordon
Allen Street Hardware Cafe, 245 Allen Street
Free for Squeaky Wheel Members/$7 for non-members
8pm

• Entry is free for Squeaky members and $7 for non-members.
• The screening starts at 8pm.
• After the screening, a dance party of large proportions shall ensue, with spinnings from the repertoire of Sugar City DJs.
• You better bloody well be in costume!

Big Star's reputation has grown exponentially over the past four decades as generations of new music fans continue to discover that the Memphis-based power-pop group was one of the best bands of their time. While they never had a strong commercial following, they inspired countless people to start a band.

Squeaky Wheel is doing Buffalo a huge solid this Friday (February 24) when they screen Inni, a film by Vincent Morisset featuring Icelandic rock gods Sigur Ros. I didn't think Sigur Ros could top 2007's glorious Heima, which featured the band in a variety of configurations performing for their home country in a staggering variety of settings (indoors, outdoors, in an old quarry, in a dinning room, electric, acoustic, etc.), but they did with Inni. If Heima was hyper-real in it's presentation of Sigur Ros, Iceland, and it's people, Inni unfolds like a fantastic dream, it's heavily processed black and white images capturing the stripped down performance (no strings or brass bands) in it's purist terms through exceedingly bold compositions and expressionist use of light and darkness. In musical terms, Inni is Sigur Ros triumphantly wrapping up a chapter of their lives before moving onto to a new phase and sound that Sigur Ros fans are eagerly waiting for with a magnificent retrospective of their first six albums. In terms of sound and vision, Inni is more than a concert film, it's a pure cinematic experience, and one that you won't forget.


But don't take my word for it, check out the trailer:




And an utterly mesmeric clip of "Festival," from the film:




Inni screens at Squeaky Wheel (712 Main Street) at 7 PM. Tickets are $5 for members, $7 for non members.