Longtime readers might remember a series of weepy entries I posted here about being recruited to compose the text for a lavish coffee-table book about Cop Shoot Cop (above, as captured by one Geoffrey Nicholson), as unlikely as that sounds. The project was conceived as an incentive to prospective Kickstarter donors to help finance a film called “Underground, Inc.,” an in-depth deep-dive into the alternative rock boom of the early-to-mid 1990s. Being that C$C were sizable contributors to the film, it made perfect sense. I, of course, leapt at the opportunity, got to work at once, and we were off and running.
Regrettably, that Kickstarter campaign failed to meet its intended goal, and suddenly all the financial lattice-work, if you will, that was supporting the book project snapped apart like brittle strands of dry pasta. Despite having already conducted several interviews with many of the key players and amassed all sorts of pertinent ephemera, this ancillary endeavor ground to a halt.
The film, however, is another story.
The brainchild of one ambitiously determined director named Shaun Katz, “Underground, Inc.” finally achieved completion and was released to widespread acclaim and finally get a Stateside wide-release fairly recently. I have long intended to pen a follow-up post regarding the film, but life, parenting, work and a little thingy-thing called COVID-19 kinda got in the way.
Suffice to say, at this late stage of the proceedings, if, like me, you harbor even the slightest affinity for the more viscerally adventurous music of the 1990’s — that unlikely convergence of disparate sub-genres loosely aggregated under the umbrella of “alternative” and/or “alt.rock” — you need to see this film.
And for those few of you who are similarly obsessed with my beloved Cop Shoot Cop, you really need to see it, as it features lots of great footage of the boys recounting some not-entirely salubrious anecdotes of their incongruous ascent into major-labeldom and their slimy decline into acrimonious entropy.
Here’s the official website and their Facebook page, although you can watch it here on Vimeo and buy the fuckin’ thing on DVD! Just don't buy it from Amazon, because Jeff Bezos is a throbbing knob.
GO GET IT NOW, GODDAMMIT!
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