Rufus Wainwright documentary debuts today

The premiere of RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: UNMAKING UNFOLLOW THE RULES, a behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling the creation of the artist's next album. The short film debuts, directed by Jeff Richter of Earthquake Productions (Guns N Roses, Lenny Kravitz, De La Soul) today at 1 pm ET, exclusively from WXPN's World Cafe via NPR Live Sessions HERE.

In addition, today's premiere will be accompanied by a special Q&A with Wainwright.

UNFOLLOW THE RULES arrives via BMG on Friday, July 10; pre-orders are available now HERE.

WATCH RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: UNMAKING UNFOLLOW THE RULES

Wainwright's ninth studio LP and first new pop album since 2012, UNFOLLOW THE RULES was produced by Mitchell Froom (Crowded House, Paul McCartney) at a variety of legendary Los Angeles studios - including Sound City Studios, United Recording, and EastWest Studios.

It serves as both bookend to Act I of a career which, like UNFOLLOW THE RULES, began in the studios of Los Angeles, but also now as the first lines of a new chapter. Inspired by middle age, married life, fatherhood, friends, loss, London, and Laurel Canyon, songs like the single, "Damsel In Distress" and album-closing "Alone Time" find the gifted singer-songwriter ready to tackle new challenges, yet compelled to confront his past by making sense of how he has grown both as a musician and the contended family man he has become.

UNFOLLOW THE RULES has already been met with remarkable praise from some of Wainwright's friends, fans, and fellow artists. "This is pop music on a grand scale; sweeping, symphonic, unabashedly emotional and fearlessly agnostic in style and delivery," says Sting, while Cyndi Lauper described the album as "Rufus' PET SOUNDS. It sounds like a culmination of everything he has done. It's a great album, catchy and intelligent."

Wainwright hopes to see his fans soon on his UNFOLLOW THE RULES Tour.

For scheduled dates and other information, please visit rufuswainwright.com/tour.