Sound City Players to Commemorate SOUND CITY Film Premiere Tonight
By: Movies News Desk Jan. 31, 2013
On the heels of their instantly sold out debut live performance and Sundance premiere, Dave Grohl's SOUND CITY PLAYERS have confirmed that they will commemorate SOUND CITY the film's Los Angeles premiere tonight, January 31st, at the Cinerama Dome with a one-time-only L.A. performance that same night at the Hollywood Palladium.
Assembled to play the music created for the Grohl-directed SOUND CITY documentary and its accompanying SOUND CITY-REAL TO REEL album-as well as classics spanning their storied careers-the L.A. configuration of the SOUND CITY PLAYERS will feature Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Rick Springfield, Lee Ving of Fear, Brad Wilk of Rage Against The Machine, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Robert Levon Been and Peter Hayes of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Alain Johannes, Chris Goss and more joining Grohl and a cast of his current and former bandmates including Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Krist Novoselic, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and other familiar faces for a historic evening.
The SOUND CITY PLAYERS' Palladium gig commemorates the North American theatrical premiere of SOUND CITY. A full list of theaters showing the film for ONE NIGHT ONLY--as well as those hosting full theatrical runs-- can be found at http://buy.soundcitymovie.com/theaters. International Theaters will be announced shortly.
The film will open theatrically in the U.S. and the world over via cable, satellite, online, hotel and airline on demand operators the following day, February 1, 2013.
North American theatrical will be handled by Variance Films, with on demand being handled by Gravitas Ventures.
The film's soundtrack, SOUND CITY-REAL TO REEL, will be released March 12 on Roswell/RCA and is currently available for pre-order at http://bit.ly/SoundCityiTunes, with all pre-orders instantly receiving first single "Cut Me Some Slack"-performed by Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear.
Future SOUND CITY PLAYERS lineups and dates will be announced as they are confirmed.
For more information, visit:
www.youtube.com/soundcitymovie
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