Finally Woken, Jem's full-length debut, fleshes out the It All Starts Here EP with six additional tracks. It features the addicting title track, the same one that blew away KCRW and Nic Harcourt and got her signed to ATO, and it really is quite brilliant. With a dizzy main loop and loping percussion that undulates slyly beneath Jem's dusky vocal detachment, it sounds like what would happen if Beth Orton started bouncing ideas off of Super Furry Animals' hard drive. The song's for...   [ read more ]

CD $11.38

Filmmakers Jem Cohen ("Fugazi:Instrument") and Peter Sillen ("Speed Racer: Welcome to World of Vic Chesnutt") made BENJAMIN SMOKE over the course of ten years. It follows the crooked path of "Benjamin" (no last name), an underground musician, speed-freak, occasional drag-queen, and all-around renegade living in the hidden Georgia neighborhood called "Cabbagetown," and playing in an indescribable band called Smoke. The film includes a special appearance by Patti Smith and photographs by Michael Acker...   [ read more ]

DVD $20.99

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A collaboration between filmmaker Jem Cohen and the Washington D.C band Fugazi, the project covers the ten-year period from the band's inception in 1987 to 1997. Far from a traditional documentary, the project is a musical document: a portrait of musicians at work.In addition to the full film, the DVD contains two extra short movies by Jem Cohen with Fugazi soundtracks (LITTLE FLAGS and GLUEMAN) as well as three additional unabridged live songs from three different concerts (WAITING ROOM, TURNOVER, and LON...   [ read more ]

DVD $15.99

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