Kino Lorber proudly announces that Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, directed by Catherine Bainbridge and co-directed by Alfonso Maiorana, is now available on DVD. This revelatory film, which was recently nominated by the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards for Best Music Documentary, brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous peoples on popular American music. Rumble becomes available on DVD October 24th, and is available digitally on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play.
Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtrack of our lives.
It also includes interviews with musicians and historians including: Buddy Guy, Steven Van Zandt, Tony Bennett, Taj Mahal, Martin Scorsese, Stevie Salas, Quincy Jones, John Trudell, Steven Tyler, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Monk Boudreaux, George Clinton, Jackson Browne, Joy Harjo, Iggy Pop, Wayne Kramer (MC5), Marky Ramone (The Ramones), Pura Fe Crescioni (Ulali), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Slash (Guns ‘N’ Roses), Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Pat Vegas (Redbone), Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), and Taylor Hawkins (The Foo Fighters).
Rumble was a hit at film festivals, winning the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling at the Sundance Film Festival, Audience Award and Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs International Film Festival, Best Music Documentary at the Boulder International Film Festival, Audience Award at the Illuminate Film Festival, and Best Documentary at the Albuquerque Film and Music Festival, among others.
The film is currently competing for an Oscar® in the Best Documentary category. Rumble was released in New York in July 2017, has played in over 100 cities in the US and Canada including such key markets as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Portland, Houston, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, and continuing with more engagements to follow.
In stores October 24, 2017 starting at $29.95
For more information about Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, please visit the official website.
Source: Kino Lorber