Beginners Director Mike Mills is Our Guest DJ
Director Mike Mills got his start in the world of music. He was a skate punk from Santa Barbara whose life was forever altered by punk bands like The Damned…
By Rachel Reynolds • • 1 min readThe Damned and went on to design album covers and promo material for the Beastie Boys, Beck, Sonic Youth, Air and many more. (Air even named the fifth song on their album Talkie Walkie after Mills.)
His autobiographical feature film “Beginners”, which he wrote and directed, has been nominated for all kinds of awards and last night one of the movie’s stars, Christopher Plummer, won the Oscar for “Best Supporting Actor”.
Obviously the film reveals a lot about Mike’s life and so does his Guest DJ Project set. Check out a snippet where he talks about the subversive nature of the Velvet Underground.
Mike Mills on KCRW’s Guest DJ Project by KCRW
Hear/download his full Guest DJ set here.
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Mike Mills Guest DJ Project Track List
1 – New Rose – The Damned
2 – I’m Sticking With You – The Velvet Underground
3 – A Day In The Life – The Beatles
4 – B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Stop That Train – Beastie Boys
5 – Basin Street Blues – Louis Armstrong