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Sonic Youth/Nirvana tour doc '1991: The Year Punk Broke' finally gets a DVD release

by Nicole Villeneuve

So long, battered VHS copies we no longer have VCRs to play you in! The Sonic Youth tour documentary—which was really just a glimpse at the comedy career Thurston Moore should have had—that captured the moment in history just before ‘alternative’ music exploded into the mainstream is finally (finally!) getting released on DVD.

Said to be released sometime this fall, the doc follows Sonic Youth around Europe, with lots of footage of pre-superfame Nirvana as the tour’s openers. It also features Dinosaur Jr. and Babes in Toyland, as well as others. It’s just really great.

The DVD will be released by Universal Music and will feature 42 minutes of bonus live/off-stage footage, commentary from the director Dave Markey and Thurston Moore, and a 2003 discussion with Moore and bandmates Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley, plus Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis.

You can stream three clips of some of the unreleased material here, and watch a clip of Sonic Youth playing “Schizophrenia” (complete with some Thurston lols at the beginning) from the movie below. [via Pitchfork]