This Friday on Built For Speed we take a look at some of the music documentaries featuring in the “Backbeat” section of the Melbourne International Film Festival including Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon and Pulp: A Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets. We’ll play plenty of the terrific music from both these films as well as a ton of current release
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we take a look at two very different movies: Rolf de Heer’s latest film, low-key drama Charlie’s Country and big-budget fantasy block-buster Hercules. There’s also plenty of fine music with a selection of favourite tracks from across the decades and new material from Honey Blood, Temples and many others. Don’t forget our regular round-up
Read moreThis Friday on Built For Speed we have an awesome collection of tracks for you with classics from the last 10 years by The Kills, The Ravonettes, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs and many more. We also play some of our favourite releases of 2014. On the movie front we give our verdict on the biggest film around at the moment, Dawn of The Planet of
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we take a look at two of this year’s most provocative films: Irish religious drama Calvary and Australian documentary All This Mayhem which reveals the tumultuous lives of Aussie skateboard champs Tas and Ben Pappas. Also, with Bastille coming up this Monday, we take a look at our favourite French films and we play
Read moreAfter our classic live album extravaganza last week, we return to more recent recordings on Built For Speed with new music from Bob Mould, Halfway, Jack White and many others. On the movie front we review documentary The Last Impresario which examines the remarkable life of theatre producer Michael White. We also take a look at the latest cinematic adaptation from
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we bring you the thrill of live rock’n’roll (just recorded, engineered and re-played via CD and digital download) as we play tracks from our favourite live albums. There’ll be classics from Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy, Roky Erickson and many others. On the movie front we let you know whether the latest collaboration between Drew Barrymore
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