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The WHO – ” Montery Pop Festival ” 18th June 1967

Posted: June 20, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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The Who at Monterey Pop Festival
June 18, 1967. Although already a big act in the UK, and now gaining some attention in the US after playing some New York dates two months earlier, The Who were propelled into the American mainstream at Monterey. The band used rented Vox amps for their set, which were not as powerful as their regular Sound City amps which they had left in England to save shipping costs. At the end of their frenetic performance of “My Generation“, the audience was stunned as guitarist Pete Townshend smashed his guitar, smoke bombs exploded behind the amps and frightened concert staff rushed onstage to retrieve expensive microphones. At the end of the mayhem, drummer Keith Moon kicked over his drum kit as the band exited the stage. The Who, after winning a coin toss, performed before Jimi Hendrix, as Townshend and Hendrix each refused to go on after the other, both having planned instrument-demolishing conclusions to their respective sets.

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END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL – 4th-5th-6th September 2015 Who To See

Posted: June 19, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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It’s hard not to contain the excitement for much longer, As the End of the Road festival is jus finally only one week away.

Its one of the festivals I have been looking forward to all summer long with the wonderful Green Man Festival in the Brecon Beacons only last weekend and its off to another beautiful festival setting next thursday, here I am previewing some musicians to look forward to as the festival celebrates it’s momentous tenth year as one of the best weekends on the calendar. Some of the artists appearing to looking at the legacy of the festival as a whole, End of The Road festival has so many pleasures this coming weekend. Here are a few of the acts that you should not miss on the weekend of 4th – 6th September.

FRIDAY  –  BIG TOP  ~  11:45  –  12:15

Love L.U.V will be kicking off as the first band to play in the Big Top,  Borrowing their name from the immortal spoken word intro to The Shangri-Las classic Give Him A Great Big Kiss, the band give this track all the fuzzed-up ’60s, doo-wop girl-band harmonies you could possibly want.

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FRIDAY ~ GARDEN STAGE ~ 12:00 – 12:45

Ryley Walker’s second LP “Primrose Green” , has been a slow-burning joy this year with echoes of John Martyn and Nick Drake with his vocal sound and guitar work .Walker has an ability to create a dense, spellbinding atmosphere using just his rich, vintage tone and deep, almost sullen timbre. Adding an extra edge of intensity and improvisation to his live proceedings as a four piece band, Walker is a personality easy to escape with.

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FRIDAY ~ GARDEN STAGE ~ 13:30 – 14:15

Steeped in 60s Folk and Lo-Fi raspiness, Juan Wauters has an impressive ability to amass the qualities of his comprehensive influences and create something pleasantly novel and grounded, his sharp, natural progressions and untainted vocal delivery combining to make sweet, eclectic pop. With his band of friends behind him, Wauters confessional love songs will be unintentionally purposeful and create a sweet, satisfying setting.

FRIDAY  –  WOODS STAGE   ~  16:00  – 17:00 

Torres knows the darkness. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter otherwise known as Mackenzie Scott waits until anything—an idea, an emotion, a memory—gnaws at her, tearing at her fingers and throat until she releases it in song. Following her self-titled debut in 2013, TORRES pushes herself to even noisier extremes on Sprinter, a punishing self-examination of epic spiritual and musical proportions.

 

 

FRIDAY ~ GARDEN STAGE ~ 16:30 – 17:30

With the release of their second LP ‘Sun Coming Down‘ set for just after the festival, Ought will hopefully be providing the first taste of the new record at End of The Road. What cannot be questioned is that the group will deliver something distinctive and encompassing once again through their astute post-punk. Their live set channels the understated recordings with an added air of resolve and atmospheric poignance. Perhaps the perfect accompaniment to a late afternoon.

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FRIDAY ~ GARDEN STAGE ~ 20:00 – 21:00

Ty Segall remains as busy as he ever has been. Although we have yet to hear a record from him this year, the return of Fuzz brings great excitement for those with a fondness for Segall’s heavier explorations. Grooving riffs and psychedelic mysticism are of course to be prescribed, preparing for whig outs at an ear-piercing volume wouldn’t be quite misjudged either.

 

SATURDAY ~ THE WOODS ~ 21:30 – 23:00

What superlatives can be used that haven’t already about the music and personality of Sufjan Stevens? ‘Carrie & Lowell‘ is one of the most fragile, vulnerable listens you’ll hear not just this year, but period. Combined with some of his most moving compositions from his illustrious back catalogue, Sufjan’s set will be emotional, confessional and most notably, uplifting.

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SUNDAY ~ BIG TOP ~ 13:00 – 13:45

With new record ‘Freedom‘ finally set for release this Friday, The Black Tambourines will be in an especially frivolous mood come their set on Sunday afternoon. Delivering fresh, eclectic cuts from their second LP and some of their undeniable hits from ‘Chica‘ and ‘The Black Tambourines‘, the group’s swaggering Garage-Pop will be an unmissable treat.

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SUNDAY ~ BIG TOP ~ 14:15 – 15:00

In releasing two excellent records in quick succession, Jack Cooper and James Hoare have provided us with a catalogue of mellow jams that pleasingly stretch within a pop template. Their rich tone and considered harmonies naturally ooze subtleness, providing a laid-back canvas and more considered verse for the thought-provoked. With the addition of Mazes drummer Neil Robinson to the groups live forte and some amazing guitar workouts, UP’s gift for curious progressions will be delivered with extra satisfaction.

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SUNDAY ~ THE WOODS ~ 17:30 – 18:30

Alvvays forthright dream-pop is focused, slightly melancholic and undeniably absorbing. The economical guitar-pop of Alec O’Hanley, Kerri Maclellan’s emotionally-driven synth and Molly Rankin’s engrossing vocal delivery makes for a succinct production. Their live set thrives with added passion and cohesiveness that will let Alvvays’ melodies really shine as the sun begins to set on the last day of the festival.

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SUNDAY ~ TIPI TENT ~ 18:30–19:15

We cannot think of many other records that are as joyfully mystical and possess such an aura of timelessness from this year than ‘On Your Own Love Again‘, the second LP from Jessica Pratt. Delivering with elegance, Pratt’s music drifts with effortless intimacy. It would be understandable for such warmth to not transcend into a festival setting, but Pratt does so with aplomb, filling large spaces with her luscious melodies and intense poeticism.

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JANIS JOPLIN – ” Montery Pop Festival 1967 “

Posted: June 19, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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The one and only Miss. Janis Joplin performing live back in 1967 with Big Brother And The Holding Company.Watch for the reaction of Mama Cass Elliot [of The Mamas & the Papas] to this performance as Janis’ does her rendition of “Ball and chain”.

SETLIST
1-Intro [00:00]
2-Down On Me [00:39]
3-Combination Of The Two [03:37] (video)
4-Harry [09:20]
5-Road Block [10:07]
6-Ball And Chain [16:14] (video)

JIMI HENDRIX – ” Live at Montery Pop Festival 1967 ” Classic Live Albums

Posted: June 19, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Jimi Hendrix, 'Jimi Plays Monterey' (1986)

These nine songs from the iconic, guitar-charring 1967 show have appeared in many editions, first as the incomplete Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival, a wonderfully strange split album which contained about half of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s set and all of Otis Redding’s. The complete 1986 edition marked the first full performance, wherein Hendrix updates the blues “Killing Floor”, shouts out his hero Bob Dylan (“Like a Rolling Stone”), turns one garage rock standard into electric mourning “Hey Joe” and soaks another one in feedback before soaking it in lighter fluid and creating the most important free noise coda ever caught on tape

Monterey Festival helped launch the careers of many performers, catapulting them from local, or relative obscurity, into the forefront of American and worldwide awareness. Today it’s easy to forget that before Monterey Jimi Hendrix had not had a hit record in America. Neither had The Who managed to get a record into the Billboard Top 20 and only one of their four minor hits had got higher than No.51; nor was Otis Redding very well known among white audiences. Rolling Stone, Brian Jones was there according to one report he was, “In a mind shattering gold lame coat festooned with beads, crystal swastika & lace, looked like a kind of unofficial King of the Festival” Brian Jones was the king of Hippie-chic

Back in 1967 Jimi Hendrix made his US live debut with The Experience at the Monterey Pop Festival. .
Please check out the DVD “ Hendrix Live at Montery “
The DVD has been digitally remastered and mixed in 5.1 Surround Sound by Jimi’s original sound recording engineer, Eddie Kramer. The picture quality is sharp as a razor, almost impeccable. The original analogue recording mixed in 5.1 is raw, punchy, dangerous and exciting.
The film footage is crystal clear, almost three dimensional. There is no no sign of grain. It’s like you are watching a rock’n’roll hologram.
Live at Monterey, continues to celebrate the genius that is Jimi Hendrix.
It’s Hendrix at his most exciting; a raw, untamed, sexually explicit and pulsating guitar performance from one of the greatest guitarists known to man.
What really gives this release the ultimate rush, are the extras. The DVD is steeped with several documentaries including the brand new film American Landing.
48 years ago. Live at Monterey is a masterpiece.

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The MONTERY POP FESTIVAL – 16th-17th-18th June 1967

Posted: June 19, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Today in 1967 : The first Monterey International Pop festival begins at the County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. It was the first of major Rock festival, with The Who, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and The Animals plus many others performing. It was the beginning of the “Summer of Love.”
This video will take you back there. How many bands do you recognize “Monterey” written & performed by Eric Burdon & THE Animals with a slideshow of the Monterey Pop Festival episode…

Held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, over the middle weekend of June, from 16 – 18 June 1967. The Monterey Pop Festival attracted around 200,000 people, although not all at the same time, to what was the first major rock festival in America. It was organised by Lou Adler, John Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas and Derek Taylor, the former Beatles publicist, and their ambition was to create an event that was multi-cultural, multi-national and multi-styled in the music that was performed. It was truly a ‘first’ and it can be considered the premier event of the Summer of Love’; one at which everything seemed to work and about which nothing bad has ever been written.

In particular Monterey helped launch the careers of many performers, catapulting them from local, or relative obscurity, into the forefront of American and worldwide awareness. Today it’s easy to forget that before Monterey Jimi Hendrix had not had a hit record in America. Neither had The Who managed to get a record into the Billboard Top 20 and only one of their four minor hits had got higher than No.51; nor was Otis Redding very well known among white audiences. Rolling Stone, Brian Jones was there according to one report he was, “In a mind shattering gold lame coat festooned with beads, crystal swastika & lace, looked like a kind of unofficial King of the Festival” Brian Jones was the king of Hippie-chic

The second day of the Monterey International Pop Festival was Sat. June 17, 1967. The bands / artists performing that day were:

Canned Heat
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Country Joe and the Fish
Al Kooper
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Electric Flag
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Steve Miller Band
Moby Grape
Hugh Masekela
The Byrds
Laura Nyro
Jefferson Airplane band
Booker T & The MGs
The Mar-Keys
Otis Redding

At the time of the festival, Big Brother and The Holding Company had a following in the San Francisco area but were not a popular as the others acts playing that day. All of the bands were being filmed but Big Brothers management decided that they didn’t want to be, so no cameras were rolling when they hit the stage. The audience had no clue what they were about to see. Janis Joplin. The band and Janis went over so well that they were brought back the next day. The second time was filmed. So when you see the videos that say Big Brother & Janis from June 17th, you are actually see their performance from Sunday, the 18th.

What an incredible line up. Here is a picture of Janis and Big Brother on stage early on Saturday.

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Otis Redding Live at the Monterey Pop Festival 1967 Press attention from around the world, and particularly the music press alerted fans to what was happening, but it wasn’t until the end of 1968 that people were able to see the documentary made by D.A Pennebaker – for most people this was the first time that they actually saw Jimi Hendrix set fire to his Stratocaster. It has not had the effect of the Woodstock movie, which could be put down to the fact that the commercial precepts were less well developed at this point.

Performances from the Monterey Pop Festival not released on the original documentary by D.A. Pennebaker. Nearly two hours of bonus footage from the Criterion Collection release of Monterey. The Festival that marked the beginning of the summer of love and spurred one of musics most creative and influential era’s. This includes performances by:

The Association- “Along Comes Mary”
Simon and Garfunkel- “Homeward Bound” 3:55 “Sound of Silence” 6:46
Country Joe and the Fish- “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine” 10:00
Al Kooper- “Wake Me, Shake Me” 15:20
The Butterfield Blues Band- “Driftin’ Blues” 22:50
Quicksilver Messenger Service- “Dino’s Song” 27:34
The Electric Flag- “Wine” 30:51″
The Byrds- “Chimes of Freedom” 33:40 “He Was A Friend of Mine” 37:36 “Hey Joe” 40:30
Laura Nyro- “Poverty Train” 42:55
Jefferson Airplane- “Somebody To Love” 48:24
The Blues Project- “Flute Thing” 52:29
Big Brother and the Holding Co. w/ Janis Joplin “Combination of the Two” 1:03:07
The Buffalo Springfield- “For What It’s Worth” 1:08:57
The Who- “Substitute” 1:12:30 “Summertime Blues” 1:16:19 “A Quick One” 1:19:57
The Mamas and The Papas- “Straight Shooter” 1:28:14 “Somebody Groovy” 1:32:00 “I Call Your Name” 1:34:53
(Hilarious antics of Mama Cass) 1:38:46 “Monday, Monday” 1:40:36
Scott McKenzie- “San Francisco” 1:44:30
The Mamas and The Papas and Scott McKenzie- “Dancin’ in the Street” 1:48:05

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The first American rock festival was held at Mount Tamalpais in California on the weekend of 10/11 June 1967 The week before Montery. Billed as the Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival it had an eclectic mix of performers ranging from Jefferson Airplane,The Doors, Country Joe & the fish and The Byrds to Dionne Warwick and Smokey Robinson. 15,000 people showed up for what was a non-profit event that cost just $2 to get in with all profits going to a nearby child care center.

While the Fantasy Faire was first Monterey is the festival that everyone remembers. With a line up that read like a who’s who in pop music – as in short for popular. Otis Redding got his first exposure to a rock audience and others on the bill included The Mamas & The Papas, Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin and Ravi Shanker. Captured on film it did much to enhance its reputation and the myth.

Monterey – The Epicenter of The Summer of Love

 

BERGEN FEST NORWAY – 15th-18th June 2015

Posted: June 17, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Bergen is a funny place. all cobbled streets, custard-yellow wooden houses and cinnamon buns. Yet this twee capital of fishing and fjords, which is the biggest in Norway after Oslo, also happens to be at the centre of numerous underground DIY music movements. For a while it was the home of black metal, then gave birth to the Bergen Wave of the 1990s, progressing to a plethora of new rave bands a decade later and now spawning the new flux of Scandi “pop wave”. It is against this backdrop that Bergen’s annual music festival, Bergenfest, takes place. Now in its 22nd year, it has expanded from a festival orientated around local talent to one that attracts some of the biggest names on the festival circuit. This year featured Patti Smith, Tori Amos and Bastille alongside Röyksopp and Norway’s EDM wonderkid Kygo.

It’s also pretty tiny. With only three stages, housed in the dramatically austere grounds of an 11th-century Viking fortress, the largest stage caters to a crowd of just 7,000. That most modern of anxieties, festival fear of missing out, fully eliminated by the fact barely any of the acts overlap.

It is under a bleak and ominously grey sky that St Paul and the Broken Bones take the stage on Friday afternoon, a setting that seems somewhat incongruous with this seven-piece soul band from Birmingham, Alabama. “Well hellooo Norway,” drawls singer Paul Janeway with all the cadence of a gospel preacher, before launching into an electric rendition of Dixie Rothko, accompanied by all the hip thrusting and ass shaking that makes him one of the most captivating frontmen around. It’s no easy feat warming up this shivering Nordic crowd, but as the saxophones kick in for a Sam Cooke cover and Janeway instructs everyone to “shake it like a bowl of soup”, an energy suddenly grips the audience. Beautiful cagoules are stripped off (this is city who knows how look impeccable in waterproofs) and beer cups thrown to the floor as the awkward foot shuffling gives way to some all-out shimmying.

It’s an energy that’s kept up with an infectiously spirited set from Omara “Bombino” Moctar, the Tuareg singer and guitarist from Niger. His desert blues, characterised with rocky guitars, drums and whole lot of bass, seems made for the festival’s Magic Mirrors tent, which complete with red velvet curtains, stained glass windows and leather booths, feels like a cross between a brothel and a spiritual yurt for taking ayahuasca.

This atmospheric tent also plays host to Natalie Prass, whose beautiful vocals sound even better live than they do on record, less saccharine and more sweetly soulful. It’s a brilliant set, one of the best of the festival in fact, so it seems a shame it is played to a tiny crowd. Still, that does not put off Prass who slinks elegantly across the stage – at one point commenting that all the red velvet “makes me feel like Janet Jackson”.

Showing them all how its done, however, is Tori Amos, whose Saturday afternoon slot proves to be a fierce pinnacle for the festival. Straddling her stool and playing a piano with one hand and her keyboard with the other, Amos looks like she is having some sort of sexual experience on stage as she performs a set that covers the spectrum of her two-decade long career. “I’m so old I forgot my lyrics,” Amos tells the crowd, brandishing her notes in the air. “Look, it happens – but menopause can be hot too,” she says before breaking into 1994’s Take to the Sky, thrusting her crotch and ferociously smacking the piano as if to prove her point.

It is on Sunday afternoon that the dark skies of Bergen finally open up in apocalyptic style, just as Death Cab For Cutie take to the stage. Hypothermia is on the horizon by this point but as the opening chords of “I Will Possess Your Heart” carry out over the medieval castle grounds, I am instantly transported back to my angst-ridden teen years, filled with heartbreak it is a tight set and one infused with nostalgia.

The Bergen music scene, however, redeems itself with a Sunday-night finale from their most successful local export, Röyksopp. The Norwegian dance duo, whose latest album was apparently their last, favour of euphoric dance tracks, all pounding beats, billowing synths and strobe lighting, and they finally succeed where many others over the weekend have failed – getting this cool Nordic crowd to drop their inhibitions and lose their shit a little bit.

Bergenfest has been voted “Festival of the Year” by its peers in the Norwegian Rock Festival Council and twice received the price of honour from The Tourist Board of Bergen “for excellent marketing of Bergen”.

open air and club festival in the city centre of Bergen. Open air shows take place in mediaval fortress and castle located in the city’s historic centre. Main stage capacity 6.700, second stage capacity 2.000.

Website: www.bergenfest.no

Line Up

  • Grace Jones

    First Aid Kit

  • Patti Smith

  • Lower Than Atlantis
  • Matthew E. White
  • Interpol

  • The Twilight Sad
  • Bastille

    Ben Howard

  • Jackson Browne

  • Calexico

  • John Grant

  • St. Paul & The Broken Bones
  • Aurora

    Alt-J

  • Kyla La Grange
  • Tori Amos
  • Natalie Prass
  • Röyksopp
  • Susanne Sundfør
  • Rae Morris

    The Struts

HALDERN POP FESTIVAL – Germany 13th-15th August 2015

Posted: June 14, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Music:
Alcoholic Faith MIssion – Orbitor
From their upcoming album “Orbitor”
out on Feb. 20, 2015 on Haldern Pop Recordings

Music:
1) Christian Friedel plays J.S. Bach
2) Woods of Birnam – Under The Greenwood Tree,
performed by Christian Friedel & Ludwig Bauer

Music:
 Alcoholic Faith Mission – Sobriety Up And Left
Easter Song: Lilian Meier & Helene Reichmann

Special thanks to the Kühnapfel family and their poultry and Keusgen Studio Haldern

Music & Video:
Delta Rae – Scared (live)

Music:

a new song by The Slow Show

The WAR ON DRUGS – ” Best Kept Secret Festival ” 2014

Posted: June 14, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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The War On Drugs Best Kept secret festival Bergen 2014
00:14 An Ocean in Between the Waves
07:50 Baby Missiles
12:45 Eyes to the Wind
18:57 Under the Pressure
27:35 Burning
33:35 Red Eyes
40:05 Your Love Is Calling My Name
The Animator
46:42 Come to the City
54:30 Lost in the Dream

JACCO GARDNER – ” You Have The Key That Opens The Door “

Posted: June 12, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Jacco Gardner at Seaport Music Festival

Jacco Gardner, who just released his second album was one of a few bands featured on a limited edition Trouble in Mind 12″ they released just for the Eindhoven Psych Lab Festival that happened in the Netherlands last weekend. The compilation also featured exclusive tracks from The Liminanas, Klaus Johann Grobe, Ultimate Painting, Morgan Delt, Soft Walls and Doug Tuttle, all of whom played the festival. The compilation was hard to come by (the label is promising it may be available on their site again soon) but for now you can stream Jacco Gardner’s contribution, the instrumental “You Have The Key (That Opens The Door)” The Previously unreleased track from the Trouble In Mind Presents: Eindhoven 2015 compilation. Produced bij Frank Maston
Released on June 5th 2015 in an edition of 800 LP’s.
Exclusively released for the Eindhoven Psych Lab 2015

Eindhoven 2015 LP Trouble in Mind

Eindhoven 2015 Tracklist:
SOFT WALLS “Hold On To Your Hand”
DOUG TUTTLE “Turning”
JACCO GARDNER “You Have The Key (That Opens The Door)”
THE LIMIÑANAS (feat. Kirk Lake) “The Mirror”
KLAUS JOHANN GROBE “Modo’s Schlepptau”
ULTIMATE PAINTING “No Room To Live”
MORGAN DELT “Galactic Grids”

WILCO – ” Every Other Summer ” New Documentary

Posted: June 10, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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The band Wilco have announced a new documentary called Every Other Summer, which focuses on Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. According to a press release, the documentary “offers a peek into the festival’s utopian vibe and the positive impact it has had on the small rust belt town in The Berkshires where it takes place”. Watch the trailer below.

Every Other Summer was directed by Christoph Green and Brendan Canty. The documentary was filmed at the most recent Solid Sound Festival (2013) and featuring performances by Wilco, Neko Case, Yo La Tengo, The Dream Syndicate, Lucius, Foxygen, Sam Amidon, Sean Rowe, and The Relatives. Reggie Watts, John Hodgman, Jen Kirkman, and others also make appearances.

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