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Indigo Girls paid a visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers on Wednesday (May 8th) to play their new song, “What We Wanna Be,” from the soundtrack to the musical film Glitter & Doom.

The duo delivered a moving performance of their first new song in four years while standing against a simple backdrop of purple lighting. Watch a replay below.

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“What We Wanna Be” was written for the Glitter & Doom end credits and was inspired by Indigo Girls member Amy Ray’s “own experience of peeling off the layers of things I have built over the years to shield me from pain or even my own truth,” as she explained in a previous statement. “It is a conversation between Glitter and Doom and their endeavor to find healing through the love they have kindled together. And as importantly, the grace that allows them...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the newly released “Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All,” the rise and evolution of the singer/songwriter duo Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, also know as The Indigo Girls. In select theaters and through digital download since April 10th.

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Vera Drew (she/her) wrote, directed and stars as a transgender male-to-female eventually named Joker the Harlequin. She moves from Smallville to Gotham City to find her identity and get away from her oppressive mother (Lynn Downey), and wants to establish a comedy career. With another oddball nicknamed The Penguin (Nathan Faustyn), they open a comedy club, with a goal to get a shot on Gotham’s most popular comedy show Ucb Live, produced by Lorne Michaels (voice of Maria Bramford). With the rogues gallery of lowlife villains in Gotham, plus the overhang of The Batman, they is no...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the newly released “Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All,” the rise and evolution of the singer/songwriter duo Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, also know as The Indigo Girls. In select theaters and through digital download since April 10th.

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers first met as high schoolers in Decatur, Georgia, and came together in their love for guitar playing and music. They both ended up at Emory University in Atlanta, where the Indigo Girls were born in the 1980s. After releasing singles and the album Strange Fire independently, they had major label success with the self titled Indigo Girls, containing their masterpiece song, “Closer to Fine” (used to great effect in last year’s “Barbie” movie). From there they have released 13 studios albums and four live albums, and have become ardent activists for many causes. The...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Billy (Zachary Epcar)

An emerging experimental filmmaker uses a series of 16mm close-ups to capture the textures and objects that characterize suburban life in this short horror film inspired by the ‘90s soap opera Melrose Place. Zachary Epcar’s approach to presenting household items––plastic Fiji water bottles, Nespresso pods, Amazon packages––using a combination of sharp visuals and eerie sounds produces a nightmarish thrill-ride through the suburbs that renders commodity culture itself as a movie monster.

Where to Stream: Le Cinéma Club

Blackout (Larry Fessenden)

As with Depraved, writer-director Larry Fessenden returns to the world of classic, Universal-inspired monsters in Blackout. Whereas that title brought the mythos of Frankenstein’s monster (and its ample room for social commentary) into the present-day,...

As much as the new documentary film Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All casts a light on the trailblazing history of the queer duo, it also celebrates the community that formed around them beginning in the late-Eighties. A new scene from the film, in theaters April 10 for a one-night-only viewing experience, offers a look into the tangible, human stories that extend beyond the music as fans detail their relationship with it.

“I came out in 1997 and their music helped me deal with that fact,” one fan explained. Another added...

In the new trailer for Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers discuss the challenges of being a queer band in the late-Eighties onward, from not fitting in, to the lack of mainstream media coverage.

The trailblazing duo Indigo Girls — who released their debut album, Strange Fire, in 1987 — were one of a few bands who came out publicly at a time when marriage equality seemed an impossibility and homophobia and misogyny were prevalent.

“Something about what you had to be as a girl didn’t...

The music documentary “Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All,” which was critically acclaimed when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, will hit theaters for a one-night-only release on April 10, about a month before it becomes available for home viewing.

“It is a beautiful documentary that captures the life force of our community,” said the duo’s Emily Saliers, in a statement. “Now our community has an opportunity to see it on the big screen — we are thankful for that.”

Echoing that language, director Alexandra Bombach emphasized her belief in the power of seeing the film in cinemas with likeminded fans. “Festival audiences have embraced and celebrated this story of Amy and Emily, and now we get to bring this film to fans in theaters all over the country,” she said. “A film about community should be seen in community.”

Oscilloscope Laboratories posted a list of theaters set to show the doc,...

"They helped me understand who I was and who I wanted to be." Oscilloscope Labs has revealed an official trailer for a music documentary film titled Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All, also known as just It's Only Life After All. This acclaimed rock doc initially premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival last year, and toured around the world to many other festivals including to SXSW, Boulder, Sarasota, Adelaide, and Vancouver. Known for stirring harmonies and socially conscious lyrics, iconic folk rock duo Indigo Girls are the subject of this intimate and insightful documentary, which tracks their decades-long career and how they've shaped the rock world. An intimate look into the lives of one of the most iconic folk-rock bands - the Indigo Girls, featuring the musicians Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. With never-before-seen archival and intimate vérité the film dives into the songwriting & storytelling of the music that transformed a generation.

Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced a one night only theatrical release of Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All, and has rolled out the documentary’s trailer.

A Sundance debut and a Tribeca selection, the film will play in theaters across the country on Wednesday, April 10. There will also be a screening and live performance with the band in their hometown of Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, March 29, and the film will have a digital release to follow on May 7.

“Festival audiences have embraced and celebrated this story of Amy and Emily, and now we get to bring this film to fans in theaters all over the country,” said filmmaker Alexandria Bombach. “A film about community should be seen in community.”

“From our earliest days at Little Five Points Community Pub in Atlanta, the ideal of ‘community’ has informed our music and activism,” adds Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. “We feel...

A24’s psychological thriller Love Lies Bleeding by director Rose Glass starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Jena Malone and Anna Baryshnikov, with Dave Franco and Ed Harris, opens in limited release on five screens in New York and L.A., expanding next week. A reclusive gym manager Lou (Stewart) falls hard for Jackie (O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family. Written by Rose Glass and Weronika Tofilskav. Premiered at Sundance, see Deadline review.

(A24’s The Problemista by Julio Torres staring Torres and Tilda Swinton expands to 20 screens.)

Glitter & Doom from Music Box Films, a fantastical queer romance told through the music of the Indigo Girls, opens at the Quad in NYC and Laemmle LA. The film, which has played gala slots at over 50 LGBTQ+ festivals globally,...

It isn’t every day you encounter a pop-disco musical about a buoyant aspiring circus performer and a brooding aspiring rock singer with competing Mommy issues falling in love in Mexico City against the electricized rearrangements of the Indigo Girls. And that’s not exactly lamentable, because I wouldn’t categorize English-language Glitter & Doom as necessarily essential cinema … though I also couldn’t accuse it of being anything other than original either. (Well, except for the foundational premise of opposites attracting and then ultimately clashing over dueling artistic ambitions.) Director Tom Gustafson (Were the World Mine) has crafted a sweet if plodding love story but it’s hard to truly hate on this whirling candy-colored poetic fairytale — it’s just too sincere, much like the musical source material.

It is perhaps somewhat unexpected that the oeuvre of a folk duo led by two down-to-earth platonic queer women (considered to...

Let’s start here: the production design in Tom Gustafson’s Glitter & Doom is impeccable, colorful, and memorable. Too often these days films lack an adventurous color palette. Here we have a welcome outlier. Production designer Geo Martínez breathes life into each frame. Next there’s the music. The film is a musical set to the indelible tunes of the Indigo Girls, the folk-rock duo that became a household name in the late ’80s and early ’90s with hits like “Closer to Fine” and “Galileo.” Without question are music and lyrics the most essential piece of this problematically simple narrative. These artists are long overdue for legacy-laden admiration and celebration.

Now, for some criticism. We have Glitter (Alex Diaz) who wants to be a successful circus performer. We have Doom (Alan Cammish) who wants to be a successful musician. Both are struggling as they tilt at the windmills of their dreams.

It’s been almost exactly 35 years since the Indigo Girls first broke out with their eponymous second album, yet the Power of Two continues to thrive still, especially on the screen. “Barbie” recently pointed us “in a crooked line” with Margot Robbie’s rendition of “Closer to Fine”, while last year’s Sundance doc, titled “It’s Only Life After All“, brought us up close and personal with the duo themselves.

Following those movie tributes now comes another, in the form of “Glitter & Doom,” a jukebox musical that celebrates the enduring legacy that Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have crafted through their raw, passionate, and deeply personal brand of queer folk rock. But does the movie live up to their legendary talents or is it doomed to go the way of a film like “Yesterday“?

Glitter (Alex Diaz) is an improbably named Ivy League graduate who dreams of cartwheeling his...

"He's definitely turned my summer upside-down." Music Box Films has revealed the official trailer for an indie romantic musical titled Glitter & Doom, from filmmaker Tom Gustafson. After first premiering last year, this is set to opn in limited US theaters in March next month. In a fantastical romance set to the hits of the band Indigo Girls, two young aspiring performers fall in love at first sight. They try to figure out how to make their love last as they head down different paths. Punctuated by a star-studded cast, Glitter & Doom is an electric queer musical about the power of love. After a circus performance and talented musician fall in love, they struggle to make sense of their whirlwind summer romance while staying true to themselves and pursuing their dreams. With a star-studded supporting cast, Glitter & Doom is a creatively ambitious, visually stunning queer musical about the power...

The Indigo Girls are getting their own “Mamma Mia”-esque music-based film.

The iconic duo, who recently led 2023 documentary “It’s Only Life After All,” provide the soundtrack for fantastical queer romance film “Glitter and Doom.” Billed as a jukebox musical, the film features 25 reimagined Indigo Girls songs, produced and arranged by “The Voice” runner-up contestant Michelle Chamuel. Classics like “Galileo,” “Get Out the Map,” “World Falls,” and “Power of Two” are featured, as well as a new Indigo Girls track “What We Wanna Be.”

The official synopsis for the film reads: “‘Glitter and Doom’ follows the love at first sight journey of a circus dreamer (Alex Diaz) and struggling musician (Alan Cammish). An undeniable spark sets an epic summer romance on its course until the realities of pursuing their dreams threaten to tear them apart.”

Ming Na-Wen, Missi Pyle, Lea DeLaria, Tig Notaro, Kate Pierson, Peppermint, Beth Malone, and the Indigo Girls themselves,...

Back in 2002, just a few weeks after releasing their album Become You, the Indigo Girls appeared on Mountain Stage, the long-running nationally syndicated radio show based in Charleston, West Virginia.

Towards the end of their set, the duo delivered a lovely rendition of “Closer to Fine,” already the band’s signature song, decades before it would gain a new audience by its appearance in Greta Gerwig’s pink-hued blockbuster Barbie.

Now the duo’s version of their signature song will be included on Live on Mountain Stage: Outlaws and Outliers,...

Music Box Films has acquired Tom Gustafson and Cory Krueckeberg’s “Glitter & Doom.” The film is billed as a “fantastical queer romance” and the musical comes with songs from the Grammy Award-winning Indigo Girls. “Glitter & Doom” premiered as the closing night film at InsideOut Toronto. It went on to play gala slots at more than 50 LGBTQ+ festivals around the world. Music Box is planning a March 8, 2024, theatrical release in NYC and L.A. That will be followed by a nationwide theatrical rollout and a VOD release.

The film comes at a time when Indigo Girls have been enjoying a popular resurgence. Their anthem “Closer to Fine” was featured at a key moment in last summer’s “Barbie” and a new documentary about their lives and careers, “Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All,” premiered at Sundance and will be released theatrically by Oscilloscope Laboratories.

“Glitter & Doom...

Indigo Girls are the subject of a new documentary titled Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All. After premiering at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the Alexandria Bombach-directed film is coming to North American theaters in 2024 thanks to Oscilloscope Laboratories.

It’s Only Life After All centers on Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, and how their unique brand of folk-rock became a generation’s anthem of self-acceptance. Featuring new interviews with Ray and Saliers as well as old home videos, the documentary promises “joy, humor, and heart-warming earnestness.”

“From our earliest days at Little Five Points Community Pub in Atlanta, the ideal of ‘community’ has informed our music and activism,” Ray said in a press release. “Alexandria Bombach, Multitude Films, and TinFish Films understood this from the start, and made a documentary that pulls the threads of our career together in a profound way. We feel blessed to...

Indigo Girls are the subject of a new documentary titled Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All. After premiering at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the Alexandria Bombach-directed film is coming to North American theaters in 2024 thanks to Oscilloscope Laboratories.

It’s Only Life After All centers on Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, and how their unique brand of folk-rock became a generation’s anthem of self-acceptance. Featuring new interviews with Ray and Saliers as well as old home videos, the documentary promises “joy, humor, and heart-warming earnestness.”

“From our earliest days at Little Five Points Community Pub in Atlanta, the ideal of ‘community’ has informed our music and activism,” Ray said in a press release. “Alexandria Bombach, Multitude Films, and TinFish Films understood this from the start, and made a documentary that pulls the threads of our career together in a profound way. We feel blessed to...

If you came into the “Barbie” film cold, expecting that if any song was going to get the most play, it might be Aqua’s “Barbie World,” you had a surprise coming. Turns out Barbie is a huge Indigo Girls fan — or, at least like a million women and some men before her, she likes to belt along with the 1989 folk-rock smash “Closer to Fine” in the car. The song pops up three times over the course of the blockbuster film, guaranteeing that there is going to be a huge resurgence in the real world of people singing about going “to see the doctor of philosophy,” even if they’re actually on their way to the beach.

Emily Saliers, who is half of Indigo Girls along with Amy Ray (and who wrote “Closer to Fine”), got on the phone with Variety from her vacation spot to talk about a licensing sync of anyone’s dreams.

NewportFILM Outdoors, a unique celebration of documentary moviemaking that is held in some of the most iconic locations in one of the most storied summer resorts in America, has unveiled its latest line-up of films for its summer season.

They include “It’s Only Life After All,” a look at the Indigo Girls; “After the Bite,” an examination of a community’s reaction to a shark attack; and “Invisible Beauty,” the story of pioneering model, agent and activist, Bethann Hardison. What makes the Newport, Rhode Island event so memorable is that these screenings take place on the lawns of mansions like Marble House and The Elms, as well as historical locations like Fort Adams, which hosts the annual Newport Jazz Festival, and the Newport Polo Grounds. It’s all very shades of Edith Wharton.

“Patrick and the Whale” will open the weekly series on the lawn of the Great Friends Meeting House.

“Glitter and Doom” stars Alex Diaz and Alan Cammish gush over what it was like to work with the Indigo Girls on the bright, queer and joyful film featuring many incredible musical numbers.

Diaz says the folk rock duo’s music especially enticed him to the film, which “follows a musician and a carefree kid as they fall in love at first sight,” as per IMDb.

“It looked like a lot of fun,” the Filipino-Canadian actor told Et Canada’s Dallas Dixon. “I just thought what a crazy opportunity this would be.”

Cammish added that having the Indigo Girls — comprised of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers — in the musical film “was next level.”

Read More: The Indigo Girls Bring A Queer Perspective With Their New Song ‘Country Radio’

“I mean, I remember I was singing ‘Closer to Fine’ for the first time on set and suddenly at the back of the room,...

The folk music documentaries Joan Baez I Am a Noise and Alexandria Bombach’s Indigo Girls documentary It’s Only Life After All are getting international premieres as part of the Hot Docs Festival, which unveiled its 2023 lineup on Tuesday.

Co-directors Miri Navasky, Karen O’Connor and Maeve O’Boyle’s portrait of Baez, the American folk singing legend and civil rights activist, bowed in Berlin. Bombach’s film about Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, who became folk-rock duo Indigo Girls and eventually environmental activists, premiered at Sundance.

The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival’s 30th edition will be filled with a host of films about activists, as the festival is set to open with a screening of Twice Colonized, Danish director Lin Alluna’s film about Greenlandic Inuit lawyer and protector of her ancestral lands, Aaju Peter.

The Danish film, which had a world premiere at Sundance, will also launch the Copenhagen documentary film festival Cph:dox.

Toronto’s Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, has added 12 films to its Special Presentations program. The first tranche of titles was announced March 14. The festival runs April 27 to May 7.

World premieres include Canadian journalist Michelle Shephard’s “The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain,” the uncovering of the story behind the pathologist who stole the genius’ brain in 1955; “The Rise of Wagner,” a chilling exposé on the collusion between Wagner Group mercenaries and the Kremlin, which has resulted in secret killings and countless human rights violations; “We Are Guardians,” the story of the Indigenous guardians of the Brazilian Amazon, struggling to protect their territories from the ravages of extractive industries, deforestation, corrupt politicians and profit hungry global corporations; “Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?,” a chronicle of dissident Hong Kong politician and activist Nathan Law’s fight for democracy; and director Barry Avrich’s “Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella,...

It’s the hardest thing to wait to see them after hearing about the movies that debuted at Sundance. But if you live in the Southeast, there’s no better way to cut that wait short than a trip to the Sarasota Film Festival, running this year from March 24 to April 2. Want to see the moving doc “A Still Small Voice”? Or the near-future pregnancy satire “The Pod Generation” with Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? Not to mention the Alexandria Bombach Indigo Girls documentary “It’s Only Life After All,” “Aum: The Cult at the End of the World,” “Judy Blume Forever,” and “Fairyland”? This festival’s got you covered.

Some titles not yet available to the public from the fall festivals will screen as well, such as Paul Schrader’s “Master Gardener,” Daniel Goldhaber’s Neon title “How to Blow up a Pipeline,” and Kelly Reichardt’s “Showing Up,” as...

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Poet-turned-filmmaker Raven Jackson uses elegantly composed vignettes, minimal dialogue and an immersive style to explore the life of a Black woman in the rural South in her eloquent feature, produced by Barry Jenkins. The story follows Mack (Charleen McClure) across several decades, the fragments of her life coming together in a risky, beautifully realized film. — Caryn James

Cassandro

Gael García Bernal nails his best role in years as groundbreaking lucha libre wrestler Saúl Armendáriz, his performance steeped in cheeky humor, resilience and radical self-belief — not to mention some amazingly nimble moves. Roger Ross Williams’ assured narrative is an exhilarating exploration of fearless queer identity in a macho environment. — David Rooney

The Deepest Breath

Filled with eye-popping visuals, thrilling competitions and a deftly presented love story, Laura McGann’s documentary feature tells of a record-breaking free diver and a heroic safety diver whose lives intersect.

Folk-rock icons Indigo Girls touched down in Sundance for the world premiere of their Alexandria Bombach-directed film It’s Only Life After All. The doc debuted the same day they were booked to perform at the fest’s opening night fundraiser, hours after the Jan. 18 death of music legend David Crosby.

“We’re still processing,” Amy Ray, standing beside Emily Saliers on the red carpet, told THR. “The last time we saw him was at the Beacon in New York for Joan Baez’s birthday [in January 2016]. He was a great mentor who had a big influence on us. David and Jackson Browne were two people we met early on in the studio that we were already huge fans of before we worked together. It’s a big loss. It’s hard to start losing your heroes, you know?”

David Crosby and the Indigo Girls

It was a whirlwind few days for the duo,...

There have been documentaries about all manner of rock ‘n’ roll figures, and at this year’s Sundance Film Festival alone there’s two. Alongside telling the story of Little Richard, Sundance unveiled director Alexandria Bombach’s tribute to the Indigo Girls, “It’s Only Life After All.” The documentary aims to break down the success of the popular folk rock duo and how they broke ground being out about their sexuality.

Emily Saliers and Amy Ray, the Indigo Girls, stopped by TheWrap’s Portrait and Video Studio at The Music Lodge alongside the documentary’s director, Bombach, to discuss the film.

The band came to prominence in the late-1980s, releasing nine studio albums between 1988 to 2007. They’ve become icons of the LGBTQ movement for their unwillingness to hide their sexuality, as well as being staunch activists for the environment and Native American rights.

“There weren’t a lot of openly queer artists,...

The Indigo Girls know full well they’ve been treated as a punchline — and it still hurts them. But it’s this lack of cool placidity that renders the alt-rock duo roguishly appealing. Amy Ray, the dark-haired irascible one, and Emily Saliers, the strawberry blonde ocean of emotions, have never shied away from excavating their deepest feelings across their 40-year career of hyperverbal acoustic ballading. And, rightly so, their vulnerability has been their greatest strength as artists and activists, despite the fact that vulnerability is exactly what (mostly male) critics believed weakened them musically.

For decades in pop culture, referencing the Indigo Girls became shorthand for razzing on a certain American archetype, the crunchy, feel-good, bleeding heart, militantly earnest, 90s type of social justice warrior in flannel who was either coded as queer or blatantly denigrated as queer. Actually, it was this type of satire that first introduced me to...

Fair Play Image: Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Snow is falling gently on Park City, Utah, in the opening days of the Sundance Film Festival. The 2023 iteration of everyone’s favorite indie fest is a particularly special one, after online-only versions in 2021 and 2022. In person and virtually, The A.V. Club...

The Indigo Girls make a far more intriguing subject for a music doc than most who’ve gotten the treatment in recent years, and director Alexandria Bombach doesn’t blow that promise with “It’s Only Life After All,” which got an day-one premiere slot at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The film celebrates Amy Ray’s and Emily Saliers’ status as among the first figures in the rock world to come out while enjoying gold and platinum success, as the duo did in their initial late ’80s and ’90s heyday. But beyond exploring what the pair meant to millions of fans who found succor in their records and success during leaner days for musical role models, Bombach’s movie finds its real flavor in exploring the differences in the duo’s two very distinct personalities, which up till now might have seemed like a fuzzy, singular unit by all but the most hardcore fans.

“It’s Only Life After All,” a documentary about the folk-rock duo Indigo Girls, is for fans only. For those who are not fans, and for those who only dimly remember their initial albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s, this Sundance Film Festival Opening Night entry is a rambling, unrevealing look at their lives and careers that director Alexandria Bombach allows to run over two hours without focusing her material.

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers met in grammar school, and Saliers was one grade ahead of Ray. During the extensive interviews with them in this movie, a hazy picture emerges of Ray as the driving force of their act, or the one with the most ambition, and Saliers as the more elusive or distant of the two. They came up the hard way through gigs in bars and clubs, and their breakout hit was the song “Closer to...

There’s a common refrain uttered wistfully by fans of Indigo Girls, the iconic folk rock duo that did more for lesbian visibility than anyone who came after: “Indigo Girls saved my life.” That’s not only true for queer people of a certain age, but any sensitive soul who has felt held by the tight harmonies, beautiful melodies, and poetic storytelling lyrics that came to define the Indigo Girls sound.

Taking one such lyric for its title, “It’s Only Life After All” is a sweeping and sincere documentary that tells the story of how Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers met, made music, and pushed and inspired each other to reach their unlikely and enduring success. Brimming with previously unseen footage and refreshingly frank interviews with the artists, it’s

So the film could be a little tighter — that’s only a reflection of how overdo the Indigo Girls’ flowers are.

Alexandria Bombach’s “It’s Only Life After All,” which tells the story of the folk rock duo Indigo Girls, is not your typical music documentary. For one, the doc’s stars, singer-songwriters Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, are not producers on the film. Two, during production no topic was off-limits. Three, Ray and Saliers were the only two people interviewed for the doc. And four, the duo’s story is not told using the typical music biopic format. Bombach’s documentary is as much about the Grammy Award-winning duo’s on-stage career as it is about two individuals who stayed true to themselves in spite of success and fame. It’s also about two people who were never afraid to speak out against social and environmental injustice. Bombach spoke to Variety about the documentary, which premieres Jan. 19 at Sundance.

You initially wanted to film this doc while on tour...

The Grammy-winning folk rock duo Indigo Girls has been tapped to perform at Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance — the new fundraiser kicking off the Sundance Film Festival, which is being presented for the first time in Park City on January 19.

The Indigo Girls will be at Sundance to premiere their new documentary, It’s Only Life After All, directed by Alexandria Bombach. The film produced by Kathlyn Horan, Jess Devaney and Anya Rous allows the duo — consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers — to look back on their musical partnership, their challenges, and careers spanning three decades with self-criticism, humor and honesty. Pic premieres at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah at 4 p.m on the 19th.

“We are excited to have the Indigo Girls perform at our opening night celebration and help kick off the Festival as we honor inspiring storytellers,” said Sundance Institute CEO, Joana Vicente.

Sundance is hoping to kick things off with a bang as it hosts its big return to an in-person festival.

Indigo Girls will perform at an opening night celebration for Sundance — the Grammy Award-winning folk rock duo are making their way up the mountain to premiere their new documentary, “It’s Only Life After All.” The celebration, dubbed “Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance presented by IMDbPro,” will take place on Jan. 19 in Park City, Utah. Proceeds raised will be used to help fund the Sundance Institute’s year-round work supporting indie film artists through mentorship programs, grants, and other initiatives.

As previously announced, special honorees of “Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance” will include “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino (Sundance Institute International Icon Award), “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler (Sundance Institute | Variety Visionary Award), “We Need to Talk About Cosby” director W. Kamau Bell (Vanguard Award...

When I heard Elizabeth Cotten (1895-1987) was going into the Rock Hall, I nearly fell out of my chair! As host of “The Village Folk Show,” I regularly hear Cotten’s name from the mouths of prominent folk artists — Guy Davis, David Bromberg, Gillian Welch, Eliza Gilkyson, Amy Ray. Credited with the “Cotten-picking” guitar-playing style — she played left-handed and upside-down — this master’s impact on roots music is strong, deep and continuing.

Meanwhile, her story is amazing: While working in a department store in 1940s Washington D.C., Cotten discovered a crying, lost, little girl and returned her to her mother. The grateful mom: singer-songwriter Peggy Seeger, sister of legendary Mike Seeger, who promptly hired Cotten as a domestic for the family. When Mike Seeger discovered her long-dormant talent with a six-string, he recorded and released the 62-year-old’s first record, “Elizabeth Cotten: Folk Songs and Instrumentals with Guitar.”

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Chris Isaak and Indigo Girls will soon have their work recognized with Lifetime Achievement honors from the Americana Music Association. The “Wicked Game” singer-songwriter and the folk duo will be honored along with Fairfield Four, Don Williams, and Al Bell at the 2022 Americana Honors and Awards ceremony in Nashville on Sept. 14.

Isaak will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance, thanks to his radio hits, numerous film and TV appearances, and unflagging rockabilly cool. Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers will get the Spirit of Americana Award,...

"We are now joined in feeling." An official promo trailer has debuted for a new music documentary titled in full Mixtape Trilogy: Stories of the Power of Music. Despite "Trilogy" in the title, it's just one full 93 minute feature film, but with different segments about three different artists. Mixtape Trilogy: Stories of the Power of Music is described as an entertaining, impactful documentary that explores the unifying power of music and examines the relationship between musical artists and their fans. Featured artists include Indigo Girls, Vijay Iyer, and Talib Kweli. Amy Ray of Indigo Girls states, "It is an absolute honor to be part of this poignant film that truly shows the power of music through the eyes of the artist and the receiver of that art. It sheds light on the alchemy that happens when music enters the public space and is a catalyst for healing, spiritual connection, activism and creative growth.

Exclusive: Glitter & Doom, an Lgbtqia+ jukebox feature musical told with the iconic tunes of Grammy winning folk duo Indigo Girls, is in production already in Mexico City starring The Mandalorian‘s Ming-Na Wen, Y: The Last Man‘s Missi Pyle, and directed by Tom Gustafson off a screenplay by Cory Krueckeberg.

Billed as a fantastical summer romance, the pic follows a musician who wears charisma as camouflage and a carefree kid about to run away with the circus as they fall in love at first sight. But will 29 days be enough time to fall in love forever? International discoveries Alex Diaz stars as Glitter and Alan Cammish as Doom with Orange Is The New Black‘s Lea DeLaria also starring, and cameos by Tig Notaro and Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. Wen will play the role of Ivy in the film.

The film is produced by Speak productions...

Nanci Griffith wrote songs that the music world loved to cover. With news of her death on August 13th at the age of 68, many are revisiting her folk and country standards — or learning about her incredible singing and songwriting gifts for the first time. But throughout the 1980s and into the Nineties, she was a stalwart for many in the folk and evolving country music scene — what Steve Earle termed “the great credibility scare” when Nashville “opened its doors (and ears) to such left-of-center artists” as Griffith, Mary Chapin Carpenter,...

Amy Ray has a thing for birds. On her 2018 country album Holler, she had two songs about sparrows and dueted with Brandi Carlile on “Bird in the Hand” on Ray’s Lung of Love LP. In the new song “Chuck Will’s Widow,” the singer, songwriter and one-half of Indigo Girls draws inspiration from the bird of the same name, a nightjar cousin of the whippoorwill.

“You can sing when you should be sleeping/because that’s when the world is your weepin’,” Ray sings in the country ballad, as...

Brandi Carlile’s love for the Indigo Girls runs deep, going back to her teenage experience of hearing their song “I Don’t Wanna Talk About It” in the 1993 film Philadelphia.

“It’s a dreary subject matter,” she says of the HIV/AIDS drama and the Indigo Girls’ theme for it, “but it was so relevant, and it was so poignant to me that I felt this pull in my stomach. In retrospect, I realize that I was being galvanized towards something that I was only just beginning to understand about myself.

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)

Tiera featuring Breland, “Miles”

Singer-songwriter Tiera flexes her melodic and vocal muscles on the easygoing new single “Miles,” a duet with the shapeshifting singer Breland, of “My Truck” fame. Rather than trunk-rattling country-trap, it’s...

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists.

Donovan Woods, “We Used To”

Singer-songwriter Donovan Woods released his new album Without People on Friday, and the aptly titled collection boasts some of the Canadian performer’s most ambitious arrangements to date. In “We Used To,” Woods gives an impressionistic account...

Indigo Girls have premiered a new song, “Long Ride,” that offers their take on the Covid-19 era.

The uplifting heartland rock track, which the pair debuted on NPR’s Morning Edition, features allusions to the pandemic in its lyrics, encouraging listeners to keep their heads up: “I know you wanna let go of the reins, yeah/But it’s gonna be a long ride/Hang on, my friend, I know, I get it/It’s gonna be a long ride.”

Indigo Girls member Amy Ray admits that she and her...

Indigo Girls have released “Change My Heart,” the first music video from the duo’s latest album Look Long.

Band member Emily Saliers wrote the track after watching the documentary Inner Worlds Outer Worlds, by Canadian meditation teacher Daniel Schmidt. “‘Change My Heart’ is about the intersection between spirituality and the physical world,” she tells Rolling Stone. “We can draw from and use the mind-bending power of love, but we are not the ones who create that power. Still, if we are in relationship with love and justice, we can...

The Indigo Girls played a handful of songs from their manager’s office in Atlanta for In My Room, our Igtv series in which musicians perform while in quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Seated at a safe distance from each other and in front of a couch covered with vinyl copies of their new album, Look Long, and various commemorative plaques, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers played three songs from the new album. They began with “Country Radio,” which depicts a small-town gay kid who loves country music but feels like an outsider.

Folk rock musicians the Indigo Girls are getting the first documentary film of their 30-plus year career thanks to director Alexandria Bombach and Multitude Films.

The film doesn’t have a specific release date or title, and Bombach said in a statement it will be completed in “early 2021.” The Indigo Girls release their 15th studio album, “Look Long,” on May 22.

Since forming the band in 1985, Indigo Girls duo Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have become global queer icons and received awards for both their musical talents and social activism. The pair won a best contemporary folk recording Grammy Award in 1991 for their song “Hammer and a Nail” and received a Pell Award For Lifetime Achievement in the Arts in 2019. Their eponymous second studio album went double platinum in 1989.

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The documentary will include “nearly forty years of video archive that has been locked away in Amy’s basement,...

The Indigo Girls (Amy Ray and Emily Saliers) will be the subject of a feature documentary from director Alexandria Bombach and Multitude Films.

The film will follow the legendary folk duo using never-before-seen archival footage from Ray and Saliers, as well as vérité footage shot during the production of their latest studio album, Look Long, to be released May 22. The project also marks the first documentary about Ray and Saliers and the first time they have allowed a film director to capture their creative process.

"Indigo Girls are unlike any other band, they mean so much to their ...