Long before Woodstock, this forgotten music festival brought together future legends like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the ...

In 1967, record producer Lou Adler, John Phillips of pop group the Mamas & the Papas, Beatles publicist Derek Taylor, and promoter Alan Pariser organized the Monterey International Pop Music Festival.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pennebaker wasn’t exactly a musical neophyte, of course. After all, he had spent a good chunk of 1965 following Bob Dylan around ...

Some bands that played Monterey Pop 40 years ago will return in July to the site of the first great rock festival, but the original promoter and others say the spirit of the Summer of Love is a long ...

Before Woodstock, and way before Coachella, the rock-music festival that started it all was the Monterey Pop Festival. Its lineup had legendary performances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who (you’ve ...

A second Monterey International Pop Festival has for the past month been put in jeopardy by a vicious handful of citizens, cops and city officials in a small town drama straight from Peyton Place and ...

When Norah Jones considers why she wanted to participate in the 50th anniversary revival of the Monterey International Pop Festival ­– the prototype for everything from Woodstock to Coachella – she ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Before Burning Man and Bonnaroo, Coachella and Lollapalooza, Glastonbury and Governors Island, there was Monterey Pop. Fifty years ago this week, the three-day concert south of San ...

Music lovers arrive at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., Sunday, June 12, 2011. Forty-four years ago this past weekend, a group of musicians, impresarios, and true believers ...

Among the countless music documentaries produced over the decades, only a select few stand as true cinematic milestones. That is the legacy of this 1968 masterpiece, which overcame network rejection ...

When you’re rocking out to Metallica at Outside Lands in San Francisco in August, or perhaps grooving to some hipster-approved dance-pop act at Southern California’s Coachella come spring, you might ...