New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Featuring appearances from Alice Cooper, Cameron Crowe, Joan Jett, Wayne Kramer, Michael Stipe, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Kirk Hammett, Thurston Moore,
Peter Wolf and many more, the new doc distributed via Greenwich Entertainment captures the messy upheaval of the '70s just as rock was reinventing itself.
Produced by JJ Kramer (son of CREEM co-founder and publisher Barry Kramer) and Jaan Uhelszki (original CREEM alum), directed by Scott Crawford (Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington DC, 1980-90), and scored by MC5 founder Wayne Kramer, 'CREEM: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine' rips back the curtain on legendary rock rag CREEM Magazine's wild and disruptive newsroom; a dysfunctional band of unruly outsiders who weren't all that different from the artists they covered.
Read this week's New York Times feature on the film, which includes interviews with Alice Cooper, Wayne Kramer,
Director Scott Crawford and Producer JJ Kramer, who notes that he sees the making of the documentary "as very much the beginning, not the end…." of CREEM as we know it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/arts/music/creem-magazine-documentary.html
More than fifty years after publishing its first issue, CREEM remains a seditious spirit in music and culture. Variety said "this compact, well-crafted documentary will no doubt make viewers comb eBay and garage sale print stacks for all the old CREEM issues they can find."
PRAISE FOR 'CREEM: AMERICA'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL MAGAZINE'
"...traces the rise and fall of the irreverent, boundary-smashing music publication."
- NY Times
"Compact, well crafted...Vintage rock fans will be in (cough) high heaven."
"...peel[s] back the Boy Howdy Beer-soaked curtain on the music, the mayhem, and the food fights that forged Creem magazine's legacy…"
"A sharp, hip piece of rock history told with the same kind of insolent wit that made Creem what it was…"
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