Jordan Firstman, the comedian and actor from I Love LA and English Teacher, is the writer, director, and star of Club Kid, a new indie film that's been picking up serious buzz since it debuted at Cannes earlier this year. It's about a nightclub promoter who suddenly learns that he has a 10-year-old son who he has to take care of, and I have only heard good things about it. Club Kid is finally getting its theatrical release this weekend, and A24 Music has surprise-released a new tie-in EP that features a couple of Arthur Russell covers.
The Club Kid EP has five songs. Three of them are actual club tracks that appear to be entirely new, and those selections come from Shygirl, Brutalismus 3000, and Moby. The film also reportedly features a needledrop of "The Boy With A Smile," a song that the late Arthur Russell probably recorded around 1985 but which didn't come out until the posthumous 2023 album Picture Of Bunny Rabbit. The EP has two different covers of that song — one from Christine And The Queens and another from Nirosta Steel, the Russell collaborator who became much more prominent after his own collection My Skyscraper came out earlier this year. Below, check out the Club Kid soundtrack EP and the trailer for the film.
Club Kid is in theaters now, and the tie-in EP is out on A24 Music.
