• Explore
  • Log in
  • Build your collection and connect with people who share your taste.

    Create accountLog in
Log inSign upCreate account
Before the Music Dies

Before the Music Dies

Andrew Shapter

2006

  • Documentary
7.0

B4MD tells the story of American music at this precarious moment. Filmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen traveled the country, hoping to understand why mainstream music seems so packaged and repetitive, and whether corporations really had the power to silence musical innovation. The answers they found on this journey are what makes B4MD both riveting and exciting.

Cast & crew

  • Andrew ShapterDirector
  • Elvis CostelloSelf - Musician
  • Les PaulSelf - Musician
  • Erykah BaduSelf - Musician
  • Bonnie RaittSelf - Musician
  • Branford MarsalisSelf - Musician
  • Eric ClaptonSelf - Musician
  • Dave MatthewsSelf - Musician
  • QuestloveSelf - Musician: The Roots (as Questlove)

More like this

  • 35 Up

    35 Up

    7.6• 1991

  • 28 Up

    28 Up

    7.5• 1985

  • Come See Me in the Good Light

    Come See Me in the Good Light

    7.1• 2025

  • A Toxic Love Story

    A Toxic Love Story

    6.4• 2026

  • Directed by John Ford

    Directed by John Ford

    7.0• 1971

  • 21 Up

    21 Up

    7.4• 1977

  • Naqoyqatsi

    Naqoyqatsi

    6.2• 2002

  • McQueen

    McQueen

    7.4• 2018

  • My Mom Jayne

    My Mom Jayne

    8.0• 2025

  • As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    7.8• 2000

  • Western Stars

    Western Stars

    7.0• 2019

  • David Byrne's American Utopia

    David Byrne's American Utopia

    7.5• 2020