Attention Old & Young Punks! Desolation Center Theatrical Trailer

Desolation Center, the indie music festival documentary which has played numerous film festivals worldwide, is set to begin a national theatrical rollout starting on September 13th in Los Angeles. The film

is the untold story of a series of guerrilla music and art performance

happenings in the 80s which inspired the birth of contemporary festival

culture including Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella. The film

combines interviews of punk and post-punk luminaries with rare

performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Perry

Farrell, Redd Kross, Swans,

Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, Savage Republic

and more, giving viewers unprecedented access to a time when pushing the

boundaries of music, art, and performance was like an unspoken

obligation. Directed by the creator and organizer of the original

events, Stuart Swezey, Desolation Center tells the true story of how the

risky, and at times even reckless, actions of a few outsiders were able

to incite seismic cultural shifts.

The film explores an almost lost subcultural story that will also be a catalyst

to future generations to question assumptions and carve out new

possibilities to express themselves. As Thurston Moore also described to

the New York Times, the mood was "one of complete joy and

wonder at being together in a place that might as well have been another

planet." He said the most radical attribute of Desolation Center was that "it asked no permission," and he called the show "one of the great moments" in the history of Sonic Youth. 

*No DVD date as yet, but prick up your ears in about 6 months.

FEATURES: Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Perry Farrell, Redd Kross, Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, Savage Republic

"Hundreds of punks hit the desert.... The modern music festival was born. These
anarchic desert happenings didn't last long . . . but now their history
is chronicled in a documentary called Desolation Center." - The New York Times