When Metallica played on Saturday night of Woodstock '94, they opened and closed their 15-song set with cover songs. The band's stock was still soaring, even three years removed from their most recent ...

It was promoted as “2 More Days of Peace and Music.” It ended in a muddy and chaotic mess —anarchy to some and epic to others. It was a weekend of legendary performances. While much has been made ...

Music festivals are among the most sacred aspects of the music industry, dating back to the Middle Ages. In the modern era, music festivals have served as weekend-long safe havens for fans of a ...

FILE - Music fans relax during a break in the entertainment at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, Aug. 16, 1969, in Bethel, N.Y. An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August ...

The week marks the 55th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock festival, which took place Aug. 15-18, 1969, on a grassy farm in upstate New York. An estimated 400,000 to 500,000 young music fans, many ...

No, that’s not a four-word summation of the early evolution of humans — or a chortle-accented quip from a vintage episode of “MTV’s Beavis & Butt-Head.” But mud was inextricably a key ingredient at ...

The HBO documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage views the event not just as one fiasco, but as an allegory for the Y2K era. The film ends by comparing Woodstock '99 to Coachella, somehow ...

Woodstock is often remembered as a rock concert celebrating peace, love and music. But one of the best parts of the original 1969 festival in Upstate New York was playing a very different sound, ...

History as you’ve never seen it: albums, artists’ births, rumours and more: discover with us what happened this week in music history Bethel, New York, United States, 1969. In a humid, sunny day of ...

Music festivals—where the beats are hot, the crowds are wild, and the memories are legendary. Strap on your flower crown and gather those glow sticks as we journey through the evolution of these epic ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. It was promoted as “2 More Days of Peace and ...