Kill Your Idols

Appropriately battered archive footage and recent interviews with a constellation of downtown music icons - including Lydia Lunch, Glenn Branca and Thurston Moore - tell the colorful and raucous story of avant rock. While documentary filmmaker Scott Crary anchors his tale around the No Wave movement of the early '80s, he also includes contemporary bands such as the "Yeah Yeah Yeahs" and the "Liars". And the fireworks aren't only musical: some '80s veterans are more than willing to dismiss their recent followers. "Niftily edited" - Variety.