BOOM! A Film About the Sonics – 1960s Garage Band Documentary!

BOOM! A Film About the Sonics – 1960s Garage Band Documentary!

BOOM! A Film About the Sonics (77 min., dir. Jordan Albertsen). Before Nirvana and The White Stripes, before The Ramones and The Cramps, before The Stooges and the Velvet Underground – there were The Sonics, arguably the loudest, most primitive and most subversive American proto-punk, proto-garage band of the 1960s. Formed in Tacoma, Washington in 1960 and part of the Northwest music scene that included The Wailers and Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Sonics literally detonated on the airwaves with screaming, fuzz-stoked classics such as “Psycho,” “The Witch,” Strychnine” and “Have Love Will Travel” – still, 60 years later, among the rawest slabs of American rock ‘n roll ever recorded. BOOM! chronicles one of rock ‘n roll’s wildest and most influential bands -- and for the first time ever, all five original members explore how a relatively unknown band from the Pacific Northwest became a worldwide phenomenon 50-years later, shaping music for decades to come. Featuring interviews with homegrown heroes and breakthrough artists alike, including Pearl Jam, The Sex Pistols, Heart, Mudhoney and many, many more who were inspired and influenced by The Sonics’ gloriously unhinged sound.

Special thanks to: Henry C. Lystad / Sonder Entertainment

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