![]() The Q&A panel included Julia Nash, Frankie Nardiello, Marston Daley, Paul Barker, and Wax Trax label staff member Larry Crandus. As documentary films go, it brought its audience to tears and laughter in equal measure and is a must-see for any of the punks and freaks who have never fit in elsewhere. It’s as much an education about the music business, as it is a heartfelt and hilarious tale which blossomed from a Kickstarter, to a festival success sponsored by Vans with a soundtrack that has flown off the shelves and was a huge hit on Record Store Day. With moving and funny stories from the Nash family and their friends, Industrial Accident strikes a perfect balance between capturing the music, and celebrating the love between Jim and Dannie and the entire Wax Trax family. ![]() With a soundtrack featuring rarities and unreleased tracks from RevCo, Ministry, Front 242, KMFDM, and Chris Connelly, the film takes us on the trip of a lifetime from Arkansas to Denver, Colorado, to Chicago where it all happened. We also heard from producer (and Big Black frontman) Steve Albini, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor, Foo Fighters/Nirvana’s Dave Grohl, David J of Bauhaus, and various Wax Trax label and store employees. The interviews included industrial all-star cast Ministry’s Al Jourgenson (also of RevCo/PTP/1000 Homo DJs/Acid Horse/Pailhead), bassist Paul Barker of Lead Into Gold (and Ministry/RevCo/PTP/1000 Homo DJs/Acid Horse/Pailhead), Front 242’s Richard 23 and Patrick Codenys, Chris Connelly (RevCo/Cocksure), KMFDM’s Sascha Konietzko and En Esch, and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult’s Groovie Mann (Frankie Nardiello) and Buzz McCoy (Marston Daley), among others. Founded first as a record store in 1975 and then established as a label in 1980 by the industrial scene’s favorite power couple Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, the Wax Trax store and label created a seismic ripple which also touched the lives of the punks, the New Wave kids, and of course, the LGBQ community.Ī humble yet devoted crowd gave round after round of applause to all of the film’s guests, and a standing ovation to its creators, Julia Nash (daughter of Jim Nash) and Mark Skill i corn. on WAX TRAX! RECORDS.įor more information on the landmarking effort and to sign the petition, visit you dug through the crates or slam-danced in the pit at a RevCo show, chances are if you lived in Chicago in the 80s and early 90s, you set foot in the legendary Wax Trax! store. Artists such as Ministry, Front 242, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Revolting Cocks, KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, The KLF, Underworld, Coil, Psychic TV, Laibach, and more all got their footing here in the U.S. WAX TRAX! RECORDS is credited for creating a new genre called “Industrial Dance,” later to be shortened to “Industrial” music. In 1980, WAX TRAX! founders Nash and Flesher extended their reach by starting a record label of the same name from 2449 N. WAX TRAX! was responsible for bringing many seminal artists to Chicago for the first time and most tickets sold ran through this iconic building. Artists such as Robert Plant, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Black Flag, Buzzcocks, the B-52s and others would shop the Lincoln Avenue location when passing through Chicago.īefore launching the independent label, WAX TRAX! founders Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher would use the North Lincoln Avenue storefront to promote and produce concerts for then unknown artists such as Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Birthday Party, New Order, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Sisters of Mercy, Divine and more. On her petition, Julia Nash makes the case for the historic importance of her father’s record shop and label:įor those not familiar with the WAX TRAX! history, the independent record store was the center of underground music and culture throughout the 1980s and ’90s here in the midwest. They ran the shop and its corresponding record label out of that storefront until moving in 1993. in 1978 after selling their Denver record store of the same name - which is still in business 40-plus years later - and moving to Chicago. Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher opened Wax Trax! Records at 2449 N. “If this store or label has meant anything to you at any point in your life, we hope you will join us at preserving this important physical piece of music history,” Julia Nash writes. She writes that she hopes to submit a historic landmark application by March 1 so that it can be considered by the city’s Department of Planning and Development at its March 15 meeting. Nash’s daughter Julia has launched a petition to submit to the city, and so far more than 4,500 people have signed. The family of Wax Trax! Records co-founder Jim Nash plans to ask the city of Chicago to designate the famed record shop’s original Lincoln Avenue storefront as a historic landmark, a move that would acknowledge the store and record label’s place in music history and preserve the building.
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