Posers and Punks in New Movie

07/23/07
. (DiR) Irony must be the order of the day for producers of "Punk's Not Dead," a new documentary that is supposed to explore the history for musical genre and does include punk legends like The Ramones, Social Distortion, Bad Religion and Henry Rollins. But for some reasons they have decided to include the bubblegun Nickelodeon offspring of the genre including Sum 41 and Good Charlotte. Perhaps the bands are included to show what some misguided record execs are trying to pass off as punk these days?

Here is a little info from punkbands (who didn't bother to call the producer out on the poser factor): Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte and Bad Religion are among the bands starring in the documentary, 'Punk's Not Dead', which hits US theatres this week. The film is an exploration of the evolution of punk rock featuring dozens of interviews with prominent punk artists as well as rare concert footage.

The film opened July 21s in Chicago and will screen in several cities across the country throughout the summer. Also in the film are the Ramones, Henry Rollins, Billy Idol, NOFX, Social Distortion, Stiff Little Fingers and Sum 41. [no news on their follow up film, Metal Rules, staring Nickelback and Clay Aiken but screening times for this film - are here.]

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