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While festivals can be some of the best experiences of a lifetime, Netflix’s new three-part documentary, Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, shows just how wrong they can go when shockingly poor organisation ...

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 ...

Bill Simmons' new 'Music Box' documentary anthology kicks off on HBO with a look at the fiasco of feces-flooded fields, pent-up anger and unreported sexual assault that was the 1999 Woodstock Festival ...

Everyone remembers Woodstock 1994 for the mud and Woodstock 1999 for the $4 water and the images of sunburned heavy metal fans caked in human excrement setting piles of garbage on fire. But you rarely ...

I was 25 when I landed my first record deal. I had spent years paying my dues as a musician, playing bars in Hollywood while working as a club promoter and living in a cheap apartment in a dangerous ...

Soon after the summer of 1999, Fritz's Polka Band of Verona adopted the phrase "only polka band to play a Woodstock festival" on the band's letterhead. Good move. Leader Fritz Scherz believes that's ...

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You learn a lot about what went horribly wrong with the Woodstock 1999 festival from the new HBO documentary, “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage.” You learn about the inadequate precautions taken to ...

In 1969, with flowers in their hair, the children of Woodstock made love, danced naked and braved the elements with a communal spirit of peace and protection. In 1999, with baseball caps on backwards, ...

Fifty years ago, a festival took place in Bethel, New York, that would live on forever in the American imagination. The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival of 1969 defined the era of hippiedom, often ...