Music, Documentary
At the heart of "Dreaming in America" is Lucero's story about that amazing thing, too often overlooked: a blue-collar rock group's struggle to survive. As the music industry has exploded over the past few decades and the ability to "move units" has become the defining calculus of the business, it's an incredibly emotional experience to see a band who does it because they have to, because their lives depend on it, and because they love it. There are hundreds of such bands criss-crossing the country at any given moment. This is a film about one of them-a band on the edge of greatness, working to break through. In a happy bit of rock kismet, "Dreaming in America's" cameras started rolling just as Lucero was breaking from its indie rock past and considering the treacherous leap to a major label deal unlike anything seen by the industry before. At that point, the band was between labels and, though it had sold north of 20,000 records.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Fleshtones: Live at The Hurrah Club
This World Won't Break
We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith
The Decline of Western Civilization
Lucero: Bright Stars on Lonesome Nights
What We Do Is Secret
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Neon Highway
American Hardcore
This Is Our Scene Too!
What Difference Does It Make?
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Carrie Underwood LIVE - Amazon Music
Not Bad for a Girl
Neil Hamburger: Western Music and Variety
Hard Core Logo
Short Stack Live at the Sydney Opera House
Hank Williams: Kate Smith TV Shows
Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess
London's Burning
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Fleshtones: Live at The Hurrah Club
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2009
The first-ever DVD to feature one of the great New-Wave acts of the late 1970s, The Fleshtones. For over 30 years, the band has recorded and toured playing around the world to their ever-loyal fanbase and is still going as strong as ever. Live At The Hurrah Club features a full-length performance from the band at New York's legendary venue from the early 1980 s bonus material that comes from a performance at the NY Rocker Party event.This World Won't Break
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 2020
A broke-down middle aged Texas troubadour yearns to be remembered like the southern bluesmen before him, but his failings and self-doubt forestall his musical dreams and blind him to the open road.We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith
IMDB 8 | Jun , 2012
A documentary about the life and career of UK singer-songwriter and Adverts frontman, TV Smith.The Decline of Western Civilization
IMDB 7.2 | Jul , 1981
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.Lucero: Bright Stars on Lonesome Nights
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2005
Southern indie rockers Lucero hit the road in this documentary, which shows the Memphis, Tennessee band on tour and in the studio. In addition to candid interviews with band members Ben Nichols, Roy Berry, John Stubblefield and Brian Venable, the video features footage of the band on tour with The North Mississippi All-Stars, in the studio for the recording of "Tennessee" and performing live at the Memphis in May Music Festival.What We Do Is Secret
IMDB 5.4 | Jun , 2007
The true-life story of Darby Crash, who became an L.A. punk icon with his band The Germs. Along with Lorna Doom, Pat Smear, and Don Bolles, Darby Crash completely transformed the L.A. punk scene, while sacrificing everyone he loved, his career, and ultimately his life.Coal Miner's Daughter
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 1980
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.The Neon Highway
IMDB 3.5 | Mar , 2024
A car crash ended Wayne Collins' dream to make it in Nashville, but a chance encounter with a country music legend rekindles the flame.American Hardcore
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2006
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986. Interviews and rare live footage from artists such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, SS Decontrol and the Dead Kennedys.This Is Our Scene Too!
IMDB 10 | May , 2016
A documentary about women in the Indonesian DIY hardcore/punk scene, including interviews with musicians, photographers, and zine-makers.What Difference Does It Make?
IMDB 5.1 | Feb , 2014
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 1980
A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make "a million pounds."Carrie Underwood LIVE - Amazon Music
IMDB 1 | Oct , 2024
Carrie Underwood performs songs from her new album, Denim & Rhinestones, LIVE from The Bell Tower in Nashville, Tennessee.Not Bad for a Girl
IMDB 0 | Apr , 1995
A documentary on women musicians of the 1990s from the indie rock music genre, grunge and riot grrrl including Hole, Babes in Toyland, L7 and more.Neil Hamburger: Western Music and Variety
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2009
Neil Hamburger is a two-bit stand-up with a bad comb-over--an aging, phlegmy jokester with a penchant for cheap celebrity jabs. He's also the brilliantly odd creation of Gregg Turkington, a decidedly more gifted comedian who has found a loyal cult following for his Tony Clifton-esque character. In this concert release, Hamburger performs a handful of twangy country tunes alongside the Too-Good-For-Neil-Hamburger Band, a name that speaks the truth: the back-up group includes veteran rockers Prairie Prince, David Gleason, and Atom Ellis.Hard Core Logo
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 1996
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.Short Stack Live at the Sydney Opera House
IMDB 4.2 | Jan , 2011
In the pinnacle of their Stack Is The New Black national tour, Short Stack play the Sydney Opera House in a sold out mega-show.Hank Williams: Kate Smith TV Shows
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1952
Hank Williams made two appearances on the Kate Smith TV Show in 1952, on 03/26/1952 and on 04/23/1952. The recordings from these two episodes provide us with with the only known available video of the legendary Hank Williams performing. Other guests on the show include Roy Acuff, June Carter and Anita Carter. Performances include Hey, Good Lookin', Cold Cold Heart, I Saw the Light, I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You) and Glory Bound Train.Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess
IMDB 8 | Mar , 2011
Henry Rollins narrates Lilly Scourtis Ayers' no-holds-barred profile of volatile Bay Area punk legend Marian Anderson, whose hypnotic beauty, devil-may-care rebellion and shocking sexual exploits onstage launched her to infamy before tragically dying of a heroin overdose at the tender age of 33.London's Burning
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2016