Twenty eight years ago today, the first of what would turn out to be two multi-day US Festivals — envisioned by their organizer, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, as ‘Woodstock West’ — opened in blistering 110-degree heat at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernadino County, Calif.
03
Sep
2010
Milestones: US Festival kicked off 28 years ago today; watch Ramones’ full set — and more
Tags: Apple, Divinyls, Fleetwood Mac, Gang of Four, Grateful Dead, INXS, Judas Priest, Oingo Boingo, Ramones, Steve Wozniak, Talking Heads, The B-52s, The Cars, The Clash, The English Beat, The Police, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, U2, US Festival, Van Halen, Wall of Voodoo, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson
09
Aug
2009
‘Urgh! A Music War’ finally released on DVD
Tags: Dead Kennedys, Derek Burbridge, Echo and the Bunnymen, Invisible Sex, Miles Copeland, New Wave, Oingo Boingo, Pere Ubu, Post-Punk, Punk, The Cramps, The Police, Urgh! A Music War, Warner Archive, X, XTC
The classic 1981 concert film “Urgh! A Music War” — which captured dozens of punk, New Wave and post-punk bands live on stage — quietly received its first-ever DVD release last week as part of the new Warner Archive on-demand catalog.
Long believed to be unreleasable on DVD, the Miles Copeland-produced film is available for $19.95 [...]
14
Jul
2009
WBCN ‘The Rock of Boston,’ station that helped break U2 in U.S., going off-air
Tags: Mike Dreese, Newbury Comics, Oedipus, Ramones, The Clash, The Police, The Rock of Boston, U2, WBCN
Boston modern-rock radio station WBCN (104.1 FM), aka “The Rock of Boston,” will be pulled off the air next month and survive as a Web-only outlet, its owner announced today in a surprise move.
Launched as a classical-music station in 1958, BCN gained initial fame in the ’60s and ’70s for its progressive/underground format, then — [...]
