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Saturday
Jul242010

Music Man - People

Entourage's Adrian Grenier rocks out with The Good Listeners Wednesday after a screening of their documentary, Don't Quit Your Daydream, at L.A.'s Egyptian Theatre. The actor served as a producer on the film, which follows the band on a cross-country trip.

 

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Thursday
Jul222010

DON'T QUIT YOUR DAYDREAM - By Richard Kaplan

What happens when you take two thirty something innovative and gifted indie rock musicians? Put them in a rented RV with a makeshift recording studio and filming equipment for a 24 day cross-country journey? Oh, and one more thing. Their plan was to travel to twelve different locations to collaborate musically with twelve different artists with whom they had never met, except for one.

Well, the answer is a film festival award-winning music documentary and praise worthy CD called "Don't Quit Your Daydream." The Los Angeles based duo, Clark Stiles and Nathan Khyber and their band "The Good Listeners" recently regaled an enthusiastic audience at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood with a viewing of their celebrated documentary complete with a Q & A session followed by a live courtyard performance.

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Thursday
Jul222010

Joel Crary Review

"Don't Quit Your Daydream" is one of the best music documentaries of recent memory. It's the kind of film that could very well have been packed with self-pity and unbearable pretension, but instead it presents itself honestly and with a humble reverence for the act of creation. It is also thoroughly a documentary that belongs to the 21st century. In the midst of the incredible odds now against a kid in a garage ever making it big as a rock star someday, it has the maturity to admit that while fame would be nice, it's simply never a guarantee. Better to be an artist first.

A decade ago, Clark Stiles and Nathan Khyber were in a band called Absinthe. After playing South by Southwest and signing with a major label, the band fell apart. "Five guys with dreams being realized at the same time is a freakshow," Clark reflects. "We were kind of blitzkrieged by the notion of success," Nathan observes in a separate interview. Clark was unceremoniously dumped from the group. Sony did nothing with Absinthe's debut. And so both Clark and Nathan found themselves without a band and with a friendship in need of repair.

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Wednesday
Jul142010

"Every day has its song and that song shall have it's day” - LP33.tv

Don’t Quit Your Daydream is a compelling story that documents The Good Listeners on their journey to write and record their third record.  They take their studio mobile and make this record on the road in a different city each day, writing one new song with one unique, eclectic collaborator; sharing the same cathartic love for music and music making.

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