Everybody remembers Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Jeff Krulik's seminal rock documentary about tailgaters outside a Judas Priest concert at the Capital Centre in 1986. But most probably haven't seen Heavy Metal Picnic.
Krulik's other documentary about an outdoor heavy metal concert in suburban Maryland premiered in 2010, years after metalhead Randy Childs initially gave him footage he shot [...]
Heavy Metal Picnic was supposed to be Jeff Krulik's big break. The documentary filmmaker behind the cult smash Heavy Metal Parking Lot has made every kind of documentary over the course of two decades. But he hasn't made anything with as big a place in the zeitgeist as the impromptu footage he and John Heyn [...]
As you may have heard, tonight the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring is hosting a 25th anniversary screening of Jeff Krulik and John Heyn's Heavy Metal Parking Lot. The film has taken a long, roundabout route to the big screen: Though it was shot in 1986, the cult classic mostly circulated as a bootleg until [...]
Zep Fest, the Led Zeppelin-themed rock fest previously scheduled May 27-29 at National Harbor, has been canceled. We found out this morning. But it seems some of the booked entertainment hasn't been informed yet.
Local filmmaker Jeff Krulik was scheduled to screen a rough cut of his film, Led Zeppelin Played Here, at the event. When [...]
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You don't need to know about Roky Erickson's prototypical psych-rock efforts or his troubled back story to appreciate the triumph that is his latest record, True Love Cast Out All Evil. Erickson's '60s band, The 13th Floor Elevators, basically deserves credit for all the the psych-rock/freak-psych/psych-folk made by lesser minds that you've spent the last few years [...]
"I have run to the theater with the film in my hands before," documentary filmmaker Jeff Krulik told me last month while we reviewed clips of his forthcoming movie, Heavy Metal Picnic. "We could that this time. I don't know."
If you're heading to AFI Silver tonight at 9:30 p.m. to catch [...]
On the cover, Mike Riggs logs miles with Jeff Krulik, maker of the classic rock doc Heavy Metal Parking Lot, on the occasion of his latest opus, Heavy Metal Picnic. Chris Klimek wonders why there aren't more politically minded shows at Fringe. Kriston Capps maps a rare collaboration between a gallery and the Smithsonian. I [...]
For D.C.’s Caribbean community this is THE weekend—the loud, brash Saturday parade featuring participants in Technicolor costumes plus countless concerts and parties with sound systems turned up to 11. But if you don't like reggae and soca, this weekend offers numerous other international and roots music choices. Around this time every year, I run into [...]
UPDATE | April 28, 11:37 a.m.: I just spoke with owner Jim McCabe. The store's landlord wants the space vacated by this weekend, so the shop will close after today. McCabe says the store still has 30-40,000 of the 60,000 titles it once sported, which he'll sell on the Video Vault website. He's not sure [...]
When people discuss D.C.'s nightlife back in the day, they usually only think as far back as the original 930 Club on F Street. D.C. filmmaker Jeff Krulik is digging deeper. Inspired by the late Emil Press' photos of Washington streetscapes, and by stories collected from area residents, Krulik has organized a panel discussion and [...]
