Still wonderfully weird, Anton Newcombe and the Brian Jonestown Massacre come home
Anton Newcombe is probably still most famous for his star-making turn in Dig!, a music documentary that captured the evolution and growth of his band, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and its rivalry/friendship with fellow indie rockers the Dandy Warhols. That’s kind of a sad thing, since most people’s takeaway from the film is not Newcombe’s otherworldly talents — during one clip he records an album’s worth of material in a single day, playing every instrument — but his volatile and mercurial behavior. Yet it’s not like Newcombe's outlandish antics were a put-on for the cameras, or that he was captured [...]