Video: The Heart Is A Drum Machine - Official Trailer

Here's a trailer for a documentary film about music that looks pretty interesting. The trailer itself isn't so great, and for some reason it runs through twice, but hopefully the film is better than the trailer. The film features a rather long list of celebrities talking about why music is important or why they love music and it looks like the film addresses the neurological/biological aspects of

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Director Christopher Pomerenke has rounded up an impressive — though somewhat random — group of artists for his forthcoming documentary The Heart Is A Drum Machine , including the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, actor/ A&R ma n Elijah Wood, actor/Coconut Records mastermind Jason Schwartzman, Spoon's Britt Daniel, Tool's Maynard James Keenan, ex-RHCP guitarist John Frusciante, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT, and more. As the Playlist reports , the film features interviews with the above artists answering a not-so-simple question: "What is music?" Okay, we'll [...]

Um documentário sobre música. :)

The Heart is a Drum Machine out on DVD as of yesterday. The film features the likes of Wayne Coyne, Jason Schwartzman, Elijah Wood, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT, Britt Daniel of Spoon, Juliette Lewis, John Frusciante, Maynard James Keenan, and more, all answering the question "What is Music?" It's an insightful, entertaining film for all kinds of music lovers. The film was directed by Christopher Pomerenke and produced by the makers of 2006's Moog. The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd wrote and performed the film's original score and covered Elton John's "Rocket Man" [...]

ZU33 Pictures (the folks who made the Moog documentary) have a new film, The Heart Is A Drum Machine, which came out on DVD yesterday. We're big fans of rock docs here at Wayward Blog -- by the wa... Continue reading "Video: The Heart Is A Drum Machine trailer" >

Toronto - Panic Manual is celebrating the release of the documentary 'The Heart is a Drum Machine' (out on DVD on March 9th). The film features the likes of Wayne Coyne, Jason Schwartzman, Elijah Wood, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT, Britt Daniel of Spoon, Juliette Lewis, John Frusciante, Maynard James Keenan, and more, all answering the question "What is Music?" We want you to win a DVD copy of The Heart is a Drum Machine. To enter, simply email us with "Can you hear the beat of my heart? Bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp-a-bo mp-a-bomp-a-bomp!" as the subject and [...]

The film features the likes of Wayne Coyne, Jason Schwartzman, Elijah Wood, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT, Britt Daniel of Spoon, Juliette Lewis, John Frusciante, Maynard James Keenan, and more, all answering the question "What is Music?" It's an insightful, entertaining film for all kinds of music lovers.

The Heart Is A Drum Machine is a documentary from filmmaker Christopher Pomerenke that asks the question "what is music?". The list of those attempting to answer is impressive. The likes of Jason Schwartzman (Fountains of Wayne), Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips), Maynard James Keenan (Tool), Britt Daniel (Spoon), and George Clinton are among those who wax eloquent on the subject. The film comes out

Quite a few good releases hitting the streets this week, notably Frightened Rabbit's new one The Winter of Mixed Drinks . There is an absurd amount of reissues this week as Jimi Hendrix's entire catalog on CD and Vinyl bein reissued plus the new unreleased "studio" album Valleys of Neptune being released. You also have the Pavement greatest hits collection hitting as well as low price vinyl versions of their back catalog. You also even have the James Mercer/Danger Mouse collective Broken Bells releasing their selt-titled album, which is Amazon MP3 deal of [...]

Acts like Spoon , Velvet Revolver , and Modest Mouse aren't the first acts to spring to mind when I think of the words "Drum Machine," but members of all these acts (along with folks The Flaming Lips , MGMT , and more) all appear in the film, The Heart Is a Drum Machine , which is being released today. The film, released by Lightyear Entertainment, is another flick from the makers of 2006's Moog , and seeks to answer the question: "What is music?" Check out the trailer above.

The Heart is a Drum Machine: Trailer What is music? Many of today's top artists and scholars grapple with the question in this cinematic look at a uniquely human obsession. The Heart is a Drum Machine is a new feature documentary film project from the producers of Moog.

Directed by Christopher Pomerenke, the documentary The Heart Is A Drum Machine is out on DVD today from Lightyear Entertainment and I'm giving a copy of it away for free! If you'd like a shot at winning, please use the Netflix link below to write a pre-review and then e-mail me with the subject line "Pomerenke" at 5actsblog at gmail dot com. http://www.netflix.com/Movie/T he_Heart_is_a_Drum_Machine/701 31654 Contest ends on Sunday (03/14/2010) at 11:00 pm ET. Good luck!

The Heart is a Drum Machine features Wayne Coyne, Jason Schwartzman, Elijah Wood, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT, Britt Daniel of Spoon, Juliette Lewis, John Frusciante, Maynard James Keenan, and more, all answering the question "What is Music?" The film was directed by Christopher Pomerenke and produced by the makers of 2006's Moog. The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd wrote and performed the film's original score and covered Elton John's "Rocket Man" with Maynard James Keenan on vocals. The film will be available On Demand beginning April 1st. Add it now to your [...]

This being a new documentary interviewing many, many people that will explore why music enthralls and fascinates, why it endures and evolves and is timeless and new. Hopefully the documentary will also explain why music inspires such mounds of hopelessly overwrought and self-conscious criticism, too. Because that's something we'd really like to understand better, and I think Elijah Wood's just the person to tell me. And no, I have no idea why the trailer plays twice.

The film was directed by Christopher Pomerenke and produced by the makers of 2006's Moog. The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd wrote and performed the film's original score and covered Elton John's "Rocket Man" with Maynard James Keenan on vocals. The film features the likes of Wayne Coyne, Jason Schwartzman, Elijah Wood, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT, Britt Daniel of Spoon, Juliette Lewis, John Frusciante, Maynard James Keenan, and more, all answering the question "What is Music?" It's an insightful, entertaining film for all kinds of music lovers. The DVD is out March 9th - [...]

What is music? Many of today's top artists and scholars grapple with the question in this cinematic look at a uniquely human obsession. The Heart is a Drum Machine is a new feature documentary film project from the producers of Moog directed by Christopher Pomerenke. The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd wrote and performed the film's original score and covered Elton John's "Rocket Man" with Maynard James Keenan on vocals. Featuring Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, Jason Schwartzman, Elijah Wood, Britt Daniel of Spoon, Kimya Dawson, [...]

++ From the inbox: ++This coming March 10th the American Cinematheque will be presenting The Heart Is A Drum Machine , a documentary in which Isaac Brock, Britt Daniel, Jason Schwartzman, George Clinton, Juliette Lewis and many many more talk about their love of music. More info here , and you can buy tix here. [...]