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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Screaming over the primitive chug of “Flower” as demented-looking hobbit people cluster around in the middle of the California desert, Kim Gordon screeches out the song’s bad-hippie mantra: “The word ...

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 ...

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 ...