“Celebrates and immortalizes the culture of the record store.” - - VARIETY - “An exciting reminder of what culture-retailers can be.” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER FILM FACTS

TITLE: OTHER MUSIC YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Production Company Productions LLC

LENGTH: 85 minutes FORMAT: Feature documentary COUNTRY: USA LANGUAGE: English WEBSITE: www.othermusicdocumentary.com FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/othermusicdoc INSTAGRAM: @othermusicdoc TWITTER: @othermusicdoc

CONTACTS: Director/Producer Director/Producer Rob Hatch-Miller Puloma Basu [email protected] [email protected] +1 917 363 2289 +1 718 413 0134

OTHER MUSIC / 2 SYNOPSES

LOGLINE: LONG SYNOPSIS:

For 20 years indie record store Other Music was an influential In the summer of 2016, New York City lost a beloved and influential hub of music culture in NYC. Featuring Vampire Weekend, hub of music culture. Other Music—located on East 4th Street Animal Collective, Interpol and more, the film reminds us that between Broadway and Lafayette in the heart of Manhattan’s East the spirit of the much-loved destination will live on. Village Neighborhood—was more than just a store that sold CDs, records, tapes and magazines. It was a place where bands were formed, record labels were born and careers were launched. And it was THE place where a generation of New Yorkers at the dawn of the Internet age went to discover groundbreaking music by artists who would go on to become household names and underground ONE LINE SYNOPSIS: icons.

An uncompromising independent Manhattan record store Over the years the store established itself as a destination for music that was vital to NYC’s 2000s music scene is forced to close lovers from around the world. Its philosophy of hiring only the most its doors after 20 years. passionate and knowledgable music lovers made Other Music a place where customers could come hang out and talk about music, SHORT SYNOPSIS: art or life in general. It became a hub for creative people of all kinds; a place for musicians, painters, filmmakers, actors, etc. to meet and Other Music was an influential and uncompromising New find out what was new, and what was happening in the city. It was a York City record store that was vital to the city’s early 2000s community that supported and promoted creative ventures of all indie music scene. But when the store is forced to close its forms. doors due to rent increases, the homogenization of urban With more and more record stores closing everywhere, the culture, and the shift from CDs to downloadable and communities that have built up around shops like Other Music are streaming music, a cultural landmark is lost. Through vibrant slowly dissipating and migrating to online forums. Nowadays most storytelling, the documentary captures the record store’s people are streaming music online rather than purchasing it digitally vital role in the musical and cultural life of the city, and to download, much less going to a store to buy physical media. As highlights the artists whose careers it helped launch the music industry continues to move in that direction and including Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective, Interpol, Yeah community hubs like Other Music struggle to remain in existence, Yeah Yeahs, William Basinski, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sharon Van the documentary celebrates what spaces like these have meant to people in the past—and how their spirit can live on in an Etten, Yo La Tengo and TV On The Radio. increasingly digital world.

OTHER MUSIC / 3 DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT

When we first heard Other Music was closing, we were devastated. We both have a deep connection to the store. Rob is an ex-staff member, and Puloma was a longtime customer and a friend to many people at the store. Other Music was a place where we both learned a lot about music, were introduced to New York City culture, and gained a second family in a daunting new city.

Through our ties to Other Music we met each other, got married, became filmmaking partners and had a child together. We are so honored to have the privilege of being able to tell the story of a place that was so special to us and to our lives in New York City— as it was to so many other people. We hope our film further cements Other Music’s legacy as one of New York City’s most important musical landmarks, and inspires people around the world to keep its spirit alive.

- Puloma Basu & Rob Hatch-Miller

OTHER MUSIC / 4 INTERVIEWS

Martin Gore Dean Wareham Ezra Koenig JD Samson Tunde Adebimpe Depeche Mode Galaxie 500 Vampire Weekend Le Tigre TV On The Radio

Panda Bear Avey Tare Regina Spektor Benicio Del Toro Daniel Kessler Animal Collective Animal Collective Singer/Songwriter Actor Interpol

Lizzy Goodman Brian Chase Matt Berninger Stephin Merritt Jason Schwartzman Journalist Yeah Yeah Yeahs The National The Magnetic Fields Actor/Musician

OTHER MUSIC / 5 BIOGRAPHIES

Puloma Basu - DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Rob Hatch-Miller - DIRECTOR/PRODUCER As a filmmaking duo, Puloma Basu and Rob is a filmmaker and Producers Guild of America Rob Hatch-Miller were recently listed among member based in Los Angeles, CA. While attending Variety’s “10 Documentary Filmmakers To Watch NYU film school he began a life-changing job working In 2019.” Puloma was born near Buffalo, NY and at Other Music. Rob directed the documentary grew up in Kolkata, India, and has been active in Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows (Chicago the film & TV industry for over a decade. In that International Film Festival 2015) and co-produced it time she’s worked on many notable TV shows along with Puloma, and co-directed the documentary including HBO’s Flight Of The Conchords, The short “A Man Named Magick” (Rooftop Films 2011). Night Of, The Deuce, Treme and Bored To Death, As a team Rob and Puloma have produced music and on films such as St. Vincent, The Namesake, videos for artists including Real Estate, Kurt Vile, and Kill Your Darlings, The Meyerowitz Stories and the New Pornographers, and an episode of Adult Arbitrage. Working with Rob, Puloma has directed Swim’s Infomercials TV series. On his own Rob has music videos for artists including Aimee Mann and produced dozens of web comedy shorts for Funny Or Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, and the Die including Hillary Clinton: Between Two Ferns With NBCUniversal stand-up comedy TV series Night Zach Galifianakis, and was the Associate Producer Train With Wyatt Cenac. Other Music is her first of Laura Poitras’ documentary The Oath (Sundance feature film as a director. Film Festival 2010).

Greg King - EDITOR Amy Scott - EDITOR/CO-PRODUCER Greg King is an artist and musician based out of Amy Scott is a director living in Los Angeles. After Los Angeles, CA. He edited the documentary City studying film at the University Of Oklahoma, Amy Of Gold (Sundance Film Festival 2015), about relocated to Chicago where she worked as an Assistant Pulitzer prize-winning writer Jonathan Gold, and Editor on documentaries including The Trials Of A Future History Of The Elephant 6 Recording Muhammad Ali. She began to recognize the impact of the Company featuring the bands Neutral Milk Hotel, interview while cataloging Studs Terkel’s radio archive at the Olivia Tremor Control and the Apples In Stereo. the Chicago History Museum. Amy was nominated for a Greg was a member of the indie-classical Critic’s Choice Award for Best First Time Director for ensemble rachel’s, and toured with the band directing Hal (Sundance Film Festival 2018), a across the the US, Canada and Europe. documentary about the life and films of Hal Ashby.

OTHER MUSIC / 6 CREDITS

DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Puloma Basu & Rob Hatch-Miller MUSIC SUPERVISOR Dawn Sutter Madell EDITOR Agoraphone Greg King MUSIC CONSULTANT EDITOR & CO-PRODUCER Tiffany Anders Amy Scott MUSIC COORDINATOR CINEMATOGRAPHY Taylor C. Rowley Rob Hatch-Miller Puloma Basu ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS Mike Rossetti Brendan Toller

PRODUCER STORY CONSULTANT Derek Yip Joanna Rabiger

PRODUCER ASSISTANT EDITOR Emmett James Katrina De Leon

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS RE-RECORDING MIXER Blue Resnick Eli Epstein Rob Spampinato COLOR CONTRIBUTING PRODUCER The Mill Brian Miller SUPERVISING COLORIST CO-PRODUCERS Damien Van Der Cruyssen John Ewald & Sarah Stasny David Armillei COLORIST Jukebox Cinema Elias Nousiopoulos

ANIMATION COLOR PRODUCER Malcolm Rizzuto Megan Rumph Spencer Garrisson TITLE DESIGN MOTION GRAPHICS Ryan Smith Faye Kahn

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