EXCLUSIVE: Passion River Films has picked up worldwide digital rights to the desert rock documentary Desolation Center and is planning to launch it later this year. The film, which has screened at a ...

Documentary Desolation Center tells the story of a series of underground guerrilla music and art performance happenings in the California desert in the 1980s which predated festival culture in the US ...

Between the utopian music festivals of the late 1960s and the corporate behemoths they’ve become, a series of site-specific concerts in Southern California once offered an alternative, wildly ...

We take for granted the corporatization of music festivals these days. Coachella’s $999 VIP tickets, Lollapalooza’s equally exorbitant facets, and Burning Man’s near-total devolvement into a celebrity ...

If you happened to be driving out by Mecca, an unincorporated community in the Coachella Valley near Indio, California, one night in 1984, you might have heard some unusual sounds coming from a ...

In the early 1980s, the music and art scenes in Los Angeles thrived. There were no limits, everything was up for grabs and the underground turned out bands opposite of the mainstream.

Stuart Swezey is both the director and one of the protagonists of 'Desolation Center,' a documentary about the collective that organized the first concerts in the desert, long before Coachella and ...

Desolation Center was a festival in the California desert without food, drink or toilets, but with a lot of hallucinogenic drugs. Lee Ranaldo recalls the danger – and the freedom In 1983, 20-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film, which has screened at a number of film festivals around the world including CPH: Dox, Indie Lisboa and Sheffield Doc ...

EXCLUSIVE: Passion River Films has picked up worldwide digital rights to the desert rock documentary Desolation Center and is planning to launch it later this year. The film, which has screened at a ...