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Premiere: Watch Rufus Wainwright's Behind-The-Scenes Documentary Of His New Album

Update 5/29 2 p.m. ET: The archive of the Premiere event is temporarily available below.

The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has announced the premiere of Unmaking Unfollow The Rules, a behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling the extraordinary creation of his new album, Unfollow The Rules, his first in eight years.

The short film premieres on Friday, May 29 at 1 p.m. ET, exclusively with World Cafe via NPR Live Sessions. In addition, the premiere will be accompanied by a special Q&A with Wainwright, hosted by World Cafe's Raina Douris.

Unfollow The Rules is out July 10 via BMG.

Credits:

Director: Jeff Richter; Studio: Earthquake Productions; Executive Producers: John Loeffler and Jörn Weisbrodt; With: David Boucher, Mitchell Froom, Petra Haden, Jim Keltner, Blake Mills, Rob Moose, David Piltch and Rufus Wainwright.

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Bruce Warren is assistant general manager for programming of WXPN in Philadelphia. Besides serving as executive producer of World Café, Warren also contributes to Paste magazine and writes for two blogs: Some Velvet Blog and WXPN's All About The Music Blog.