Creem Magazine doc screens virtually via The Royal on July 31

Films We Like is presenting Scott Crawford's film Creem: America's First Rock 'n' Roll Magazine in Toronto. 

Here's the scoop...

Ripping back the curtain on legendary rock rag CREEM Magazine's wild and disruptive newsroom; a dysfunctional band of unruly outsiders who weren’t all that different from the artists they covered.

Capturing the messy upheaval of the '70s just as rock was re-inventing itself, Scott Crawford's documentary film explores Creem Magazine's humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse, then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and genius clown prince, Lester Bangs, a year later. Fifty years after publishing its first issue, "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine" remains a seditious spirit in music and culture. 

Watch the trailer below. 

DIRECTOR

Scott Crawford

CAST

Alice Cooper, Kirk Hammett, Joan Jett, Michael Stipe, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Wolf, Wayne Kramer, Cameron Crowe, etc.

RUNTIME

75 minutes

AVAILABLE

July 31, 2020 at 12:00 PM EDT

TICKETS

$9.99 

NOTE: This Toronto premiere screening can be viewed only in Canada. 

Get tickets here.