Before Dave Grohl briefly broached the subject on his HBO documentary series Sonic Highways, the history of Chicago punk rock was chronicled in You Weren't There, Joe Losurdo and Christina Tillman's exhaustive two-hour documentary about the city's punk scene between 1977 and 1984, featuring interviews with the likes of Steve Albini, Santiago Durango, and John Kezdy. Losurdo's follow-up film Sacrificial Youth is yet another affectionate look at the local scene, but it's a wildly different take, an ultra-low-budget punk-rock musical that takes Jesus Christ Superstar and turns it into a story about a teenaged DIY lifer whose commitment to the cause would make Ian MacKaye blush, filled with original songs inspired by the likes of Suicidal Tendencies and Black Flag.…
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