Yo La Tengo Present: Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Just hours before venerable Hoboken indie rock institution Yo La Tengo descend upon The Parish on September 17th, they'll be all up in your Alamo as part of the Alamo's Cinema Under the Influence Series. In a dazzlingly cross-referency evening, Yo La Tengo will present Four Flies on Grey Velvet, the Dario Argento flick that most influenced them as a band. Also on the bill is Cockaboody, an animated film drawn by YLT drummer Georgia Hubley's parents, who were artistic partners and collaborators--just like Georgia Hubley and her husband Ira Kaplan in Yo La Tengo!

Italian horror auteur Dario Argento (perhaps best known for 1977's Suspiria and for begetting sexxxy daughter Asia Argento) directed Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1972) earlyish in his career, and it's his only film not available on DVD here. It follows the story of a rock drummer who finds himself framed for murder and tormented by a psychotic creep, all set to the unearthly strains of an Ennio Morricone score. (Yo La Tengo, of course, know a little something about film scoring themselves, with June Bug, Short Bus, Old Joy and a Simpsons episode under their belts.)

So now's your chance to relax and luxuriate in the formative 70's giallo essence that helped shape some of the best-loved indie hotness of our day, presumably accompanied by juicy anecdotes from the band. And? The bonus cartoon Cockaboody is not only drawn by Hubley's parents (one of whom used to work for Disney back in the Pinocchio days), but also features animated sequences of Georgia Hubley as tantrum-prone child. Really, has there been a Yo La Tengo trivia night of this magnitude, like, ever?

Yo La Tengo Present FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET
Monday, September 17th
7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
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