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 ...

Stuart Swezey was a major figure in these Desolation Center gigs. Today he is a plainspoken, humble gent working in reality TV. However, in the early ‘80s, Swezey was one of hundreds of kids in L.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before outdoor music festivals became corporate-sponsored backdrops for Instagram influencers, the LAPD’s crackdown on punk rock in the mid-1980s led to a series of shows outside of the Los Angeles ...

In the early ‘80s, a guerilla team from the downtown LA punk scene assembled a series of loosely-structured happenings in atypical venues. Self-dubbed the Desolation Center, the most famous of their ...