Far and away the wildest film of the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival, "Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie" tracks the crazy-long obsession of Canadian comic duo Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol to ...

‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’ Review: Matt Johnson’s Outrageous Time-Travel Stunt Pays Off The 'BlackBerry' prankster exploits 17 years of playing around with Jay McCarrol to make a ...

T he current success of The The is a textbook case of ‘better late than never’. The band, which revolve around central member and leader Matt Johnson, had a run of hit albums in the 80s with a ...

Nirvanna the Band the Show followed Matt Johnson and his best friend JayMcCaroll playing fictionalized versions of themselves, who are members of a band that have never written a song, and keep ...

In 2017, Matt Johnson and The The released the song “We Can’t Stop What’s Coming,” a tribute to his older brother Andy, who died in 2016 from brain cancer, nearly 20 years after losing his ...

When Johnson's band released Cognitive Dissident, the album's first single, in May, he issued a statement saying, “We certainly live in interesting times. The world is becoming more inverted ...

When Matt Johnson released his sixth album as The The in 2000, there was no hint it might be 25 years before the next record from the London outfit in which he is the only constant member.. Sure ...

EXCLUSIVE: Following Neon’s acquisition of his SXSW title Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Matt Johnson is in pole position to direct the first film out of the live-action Magic: The ...

Far and away the wildest film of the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival, “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie” charts the crazy-long obsession of Canadian comic duo Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol to ...

Just how far would two undiscovered Canadian musicians go to book a show at the Rivoli, a Toronto club (and sometime music venue) best known for helping to launch comedy talents like Kids in the ...