The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times spoke with Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton and MTV executive David Gale at Sundance about the new web-series featuring 12 local bands, “$5 Cover: Seattle.” They say of the series, “[It] is a sprawling project melding film and music and delivered via the Internet.” The project profiles area bands like The Moondoggies and The Maldives in short scripted vignettes about the local musicians with many of the stories based on real incidents in their lives. Although the films are not documentaries, Shelton “wanted them to have that air of authenticity.” “$5 Cover: Seattle” is the second of this series, the first of which, “$5 Cover: Memphis,” premiered last summer. This season will begin streaming on MTV.com this spring. To read the full article, follow the above link.