In the early ‘80s, a guerilla team from the downtown LA punk scene assembled a series of loosely-structured happenings in atypical venues. Self-dubbed the Desolation Center, the most famous of their ...

If you happened to be driving out by Mecca, an unincorporated community in the Coachella Valley near Indio, California, one night in 1984, you might have heard some unusual sounds coming from a ...

"A fascinating glimpse at the emergence of a phenomenon." Check out this rad first trailer for a punk rock doc titled Desolation Center, made by filmmaker Stuart Swezey. The documentary dives into the ...

Before outdoor music festivals became corporate-sponsored backdrops for Instagram influencers, the LAPD’s crackdown on punk rock in the mid-1980s led to a series of shows outside of the Los Angeles ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Before there was Burning Man and Coachella… There was some crazy noise going on in the desert. Stuart Swezey’s documentary “Desolation Center” revisits the impromptu music ...

In the early 1980s, fed up with the violence that Daryl Gates’ LAPD brought down on the flourishing Hollywood punk scene, Stuart Swezey took to the warehouse wasteland of downtown L.A., and then to ...

Tulsa-area fans of classic punk rock will have the opportunity to attend Oklahoma’s premiere of the documentary “Desolation Center” at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 at Circle Cinema. The movie, directed by Stuart ...

Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early '80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have paved the way for Burning ...

Einstürzende Neubauten playing Desolation Center’s “Mojave Auszug”. Swezey, who was 22 at the time, had gotten sick of trying to find places to put on shows in Los Angeles where kids could go and ...

In the early 1980s, the music and art scenes in Los Angeles thrived. There were no limits, everything was up for grabs and the underground turned out bands opposite of the mainstream.

Rock doc distributor Monoduo Films has picked up the international rights to guerrilla desert doc Desolation Center. You can watch the first trailer for the film, which tells the story of a series of ...