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REVIEW “Toller tells his music-industry story in a collage of found footage and cut-out animation by Matt Newman, which lends the doc an insouciant edge... I Need That Record! offers an entertaining reminder as to why the independent record store should matter to anybody who, you know, professes to like music.” Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paperhttp://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2010/04/pick-up-i-need-that-record-dvd-on-record-store-day-april-17/
REVIEW "An elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection - why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade," Jonathan Perry, Boston Globehttp://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/04/24/an_ode_to_the_disappearing_record_store/?page=1
INTERVIEW "Sure, you can find any music on the Internet," says Toller, who made the movie for his thesis project as a student at Hampshire College. "But there's a part of that experience that's lonely. For music fans, going to stores is the center of your social universe. It's the same community of people that sit in sports bars or bookstores. We're social beings but it's harder and harder to support local business if prices aren't affordable." Kevin O’Donnell, Rollingstone Onlinehttp://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/;kw=%5B13193,143711%5D

WONDERFUL MENTIONS!

INDIE RECORD STORE ARTICLE "I Need That Record! demonstrates, all it takes is one greedy landlord, crazed by the real-estate bubble, to end the indie-store adventure. The operations that survive will be hard-nosed and fast-moving, aces at marketing, unlike the zany, chummy, overstuffed corner shops memorialized in the predominant piece of record-store literature, Nick Hornby’s Hi Fidelity. The romance of such places was real, testified to in I Need That Record!" Milo Miles, Obit Magazinehttp://www.obit-mag.com/articles/when-the-musics-over

PODCASTS!

INTERVIEW “Armed with full-length feature he wrote and produced, the young filmmaker weighs in to Loaded Gun Boston about his greatest fear (bureaucracy), his idol (Michael Moore) and his secret desire to be a better whistler.” Sam Baltrusis, Hub On Location Bostonhttp://www.hubonlocation.com/2009/04/i-need-that-record-filmmaker-brendan.html
INTERVIEW “Brendan Toller's first film, I Need That Record! is a heartfelt and often humorous documentary that follows the tumultuous relationship the music industry has had with the independent record store over the years.” Sean @ Reviews From The Couchhttp://reviewsfromthecouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/interview-brendan-toller-i-need-that.html
INTERVIEW “LR: What are you Top 5 favorite records? BT: Its changes probably day to day, but I’ll give it a shot: Guided By Voices “Bee Thousand”
Rolling Stones “Exile On Main St.”
Mission of Burma “Signals, Calls, and Marches” EP
Neil Young “Tonight’s the Night”
Paul Westerberg “Stereo/Mono”” Vatche @ Lonely Reviewerhttp://www.lonelyreviewer.com/2009/04/22/iffboston-preview-i-need-that-record/#more-2464
REVIEW “Toller’s film is a tour-de-force, instructing without being didactic, plucking the heart strings without being maudlin, and presenting the burgeoning crisis in music retail as a palatable, human story. Through touching interviews with crestfallen store owners, and meetings with a host of big name musicians and luminaries (Thurston Moore, Ian MacKaye, Mike Watt, Noam Chomsky), Toller paints an impressive portrait of an industry that has been in a death spiral since the first radio payola scandal. Using statistics and the testimony of his subjects to great effect, the filmmaker delivers a thoroughly comprehensible picture of the current problems, while preserving the human center of the film, which focuses on the shuttered record shops.” Ben Richardson, The San Francisco Bay Bridgedhttp://www.thebaybridged.com/2009/03/06/i-need-that-record-my-final-movie-at-noise-pop-film-fest-2009/
REVIEW “A rich investigation... with a barbed sense of humor... animator Matt Newman’s creations break up all those Talking Heads (and, as I mentioned, one Talking Head)... I Need That Record! possesses much of the same scrappy, rebellious spirit as its interviewees and the stores that they love, making it a must for anyone who dreads a future where everything looks and sounds the same.” Victoria Large, Notcoming.comhttp://www.notcoming.com/reviews/ineedthatrecord/
BLURB “Some 30,000 albums are released every year. How many are stocked by Wal-Mart, now our nation’s biggest music retailer? Insert hollow laugh here. I Need That Record features pithy thoughts on these and related matters from the likes of Ian MacKaye, Glenn Branca and Thurston Moore, as well as custodians of treasured record stores, some expired and some not (like Boston’s famous Newbury Records). The corporate critique—encompassing recent pay-for-airplay bribes on behalf of J-Lo and Good Charlotte, which explains a lot—invites commentary even from Noam Chomsky, though he admits “My musical tastes terminated in the 1940s.” It also takes its title from a great “Yellow Pills”-style vintage purepop tune by Tweeds that I was previously unaware of. Now it’s an earwig I don’t wanna get rid of.” Dennis Harvey, SF360http://www.sf360.org/features/noise-pop-film-festival2009
REVIEW “The presentation and style of the movie is excellent. Toller pieces together archival footage, resourceful facts and figures, animation, and a wealth of insightful interviews. On film are music industry figures, writers, and musicians including Ian McKaye, Thurston Moore, and Mike Watt. There are also numerous candid moments with owners and supports of independent record stores..” Darin Strachan, The Wheel’s Still In Spinhttp://www.thewheelsstillinspin.com/2009/03/i-need-that-record.html
REVIEW “I Need that Record! seems to arise from the best D.I.Y. tradition. Director/cinematographer/editor/producer Brendan Toller got fired up about the death of some of his favorite independent record stores. So he made a movie about it. (Ace cut-out-style animations from Matt Newman prevent it from being strictly a one-man show, and add welcome visual variety)... Toller’s film has a tremendous amount of heart, and I hope it will inspire some folks to support the indie music stores they have left.” Summervillain Museshttp://www.summervillain.com/blurgh/content/2009/04/iffboston-i-need-that-record/
INTERVIEW “For all that's been said about the music industry since Napster became part of the modern lexicon, very few words have been dedicated to the individuals at the bottom of the proverbial industry food chain: the mom and pop stores.... Thoroughly well-researched, I Need That Record! is a succinct look at how the ineptitude of the record industry has spelt the death for many an independent record store decades before the financial woes of today.” Leor Galil, The Bostonisthttp://bostonist.com/2009/04/20/i_need_that_record_previewinterview.php
REVIEW “The film he's put together is a MUST SEE for record fans of ANY age. Talks with the owners and managers of over a half dozen record stores across the country highlight why the record store is an endangered species. And for once, the blame is put squarely where it ACTUALLY belongs - the record companies themselves... I have to say this - being a collector as I am, Toller's movie almost brought me to tears at some points, for a variety of reasons - feeling heartsick over losing a part of life that everyone should have around; feeling genuine anguish for the owners being put out of business by a sagging economy or a bastard of a strip mall neighbor; rage over the indifference shown by the record companies. And half a dozen more reasons I don't need to get into...” TC Kirkham, Indie Film Spotlight/ State Of Independencehttp://popcornnroses.typepad.com/tcindiespotlight/2009/05/i-need-that-record-a-record-of-diminishing-light-for-mom-and-pop-record-stores-everywhere.html
REVIEW “If you're like us, watching the documentary and hearing Mike Watt, Ian Mackaye, Thurston Moore and countless others talk about the joy and satisfaction of record shopping will make you wistful... While iTunes or LaLa might be the most readily available and easily digestible way to consume music, they can't and won't build communities. They won't introduce you to new people to start a band with, and they certainly can't recommend a great album you haven't heard yet... I Need That Record! captures both the downfall and the resurgence of vinyl in a way that leaves you with a sense of hope. It's well worth the price tag, let's just say that...” Thorin Klosowski, Denver Westwordhttp://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2010/04/moving_pictures_i_need_that_re.php
REVIEW “What's more satisfying about "I Need That Record!" is the personalities, the record store owners and customers that love record stores and are trying to figure out a way to save them, and the ones that lose their favorite stores. (Record store nerds look a lot like other nerds, except they have better T-shirts.)... There's also lots of interviews with musicians who love record stores, from Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers to Mike Watt of the Minutemen. And Toller includes lots of playful collage animation and old found footage to give the documentary an irreverent attitude...” Rob Thomas, The Capital Timeshttp://host.madison.com/entertainment/movies/article_ca314c40-4cb3-11df-a71f-001cc4c03286.html
MUCH MUSIC VIDEO INTERVIEWhttp://blog.muchmusic.com/i-want-that-record-dvd-tells-story-of-closing-record-stores/
REVIEW “The documentary I Need That Record, from Unsatisfied Films is the best film we’ve ever seen about how the music culture and business, and the music itself, changed so radically in the past two to three decades. Independent record stores, a symbol of American culture like baseball and apple pie, are an endangered institution across the United States. In I Need That Record, the producers do a terrific job of investigating, writing, interviewing and editing one chapter after another... We strongly recommend watching this documentary from start to finish. By the time it’s over, you will know more about what has happened to music as an art form and as a business in the past three decades than some music writers.” http://www.indierockcafe.com/2010/04/record-store-day-the-importance-of-record-stores-special-indie-documentary-april-17th-releases-and-video-shout-outs/
REVIEW “A must-see for American music lovers... If this community-threatening pattern continues at record shops and all kinds of other independent stores in America, our country could realistically become devoid of any shops that are not chains. Imagine all our cities’ urban marketplaces resembling downtown Denver, where what passes for “local flavor” is The Cheesecake Factory, ESPN Zone and the Hard Rock Café..” Adam Perry, Beautiful Buzzhttp://adamperrywrites.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/voting-with-your-dollars-the-independent-record-stores-demise/
REVIEW “My God, I never thought I'd see a DVD this cool and this needed, never in my life did I think that. Brendan Toller and MVD have done the vinyphilic public a service by making and presenting this geeked-out rapturous paean to collectorism, mom 'n pop shops, music, and the counter-culture...“I Need That Record! is a Communist Manifesto, a Constitution, the Babylonian Codex of arcane knowledge and confraternity. For that hermeticized dimension of starry eyed art consumers, this flick is indispensable, one-of-a-kind, and a grail. In short, You Need This DVD!” Mark S Tucker FAME Review, Folk & Acoustic Music Exchangehttp://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/reviews.htm