WOODSTOCK 99: PEACE, LOVE, AND RAGE
This week I’m recommending a music festival-themed double feature. HBO’s new documentary WOODSTOCK 99: PEACE, LOVE, AND RAGE (trailer here) chronicles the disastrous 1999 reboot of Woodstock. Through interviews with the festival’s organizers, performers from that year, and cultural commentators, the documentary argues that the violence and destruction that erupted in Rome, NY, were the direct result of an event structured to tap into white male rage. If you’re a Fred Durst apologist, you can look forward to seeing intelligent people (sort of) defend Fred Durst.
