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Criterion lavishes a major upgrade to its older box set celebrating the first major rock concert event, the ‘California Dreamin’ idyll that some say marked the beginning of the Summer of Love. Get ready to hear and see some history-making performances from Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Who. Plus two more features and a bundle of ‘extra’ music sets . . . including Tiny Tim.

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival

Blu-ray

The Criterion Collection 167

1968 / Color / 1:33 flat / 79 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date December 12, 2017 / 69.95

Cinematography: James Desmond, Barry Feinstein, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Roger Murphy, D.A. Pennebaker

Film Editor: Nina Schulman

Original Music: The Animals, The Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Byrds, Canned Heat, Country Joe and the Fish, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Al Kooper, Hugh Masekela, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, Otis Redding, The Quicksilver Messenger Service,...

As Star Trek Beyond beams into cinemas this Friday, test your knowledge of the big screen franchise from the very beginning

What was the name of Khan's ship?

Regula I

The Delta Flyer

SS Botany Bay

Iks Gorkon

What is the name of the ritual Vulcans undergo to prove themselves purged of all emotion?

Kolinahr

Koon-ut-kal-if-ee

Kahs-wan

Kobiyashi Maru

Where would one be most likely to find Lt. Commander Scott on a pub crawl?

Edinburgh

Aberdeen

Glasgow

Balmoral Castle

What is the name of the frozen Klingon prison planet from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?

Delta Vega

Ceti Alpha VI

Ice-9

Rura Penthe

What brand of beer do Captain Kirk and Gillian drink at the pizza parlor in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home?

Budweiser

Michelob

Miller Lite

Coors Lite

Who was the Captain of the USS Kelvin?

Captain Richard Robau

Captain Mackenzie Calhoun

Larskene, The Silver

Captain Rachael Garrett

What species is Keenser?...

I've seen so much music over the years it's often difficult for me to find much that is authentic. I have to get off the beaten track and lurk around the fringes of the music scene. Find those pockets of music where the authentic bubbles and boils. Where artists are making authentic art, for themselves, for their small stake in the world; hoping to get some response back from an audience or a scene, hoping to be noticed, hoping to share their art.

I was talking to painter Ron English at lunch in Austin during SXSW and he reminded me how cities use to stake their claim in creating a music scene with an identifiable sound -- San Francisco in the '60s with the psychedelic bands like the Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, et al.; London's punk/new wave scene in the mid/late '70s with the Sex Pistols,...

Concert films often work best when they’re about one band. The Last Waltz and Stop Making Sense are great, because you can either like the artist or not, but it’s about their moment, that moment, when they record the show they’re doing. The problem with gig shows, like Monterey Pop, is that not all musicians are created equal. So they have to be about the moment, and the experience. My review after the jump.

Monterey Pop brings together a number of performers, but only a couple will make you lose your minds. But four such performances are enough to make a film like this, and it’s worth celebrating the film for those, and though the film shows where pop music was at that moment, some artists are better than others. The show starts with some Mamas and the Papas, and the song “California Dreaming.” A dreamy,...

From Mvd comes the new DVD release, Marty Balin - Live At The Boston Esplanade, a rare 2008 solo performance by the 'Rock & Roll Hall of Fame' inductee, founding member of The Jefferson Airplane and key personality of the 'San Francisco sound' that also launched The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Steve Miller Band and Janis Joplin. Balin's first solo effort was recorded June 14, 2008 at the Hatch Shell in Boston, featuring tracks "Volunteers", "3/5ths of a Mile In Ten Seconds", "White Rabbit", "Somebody To Love" (with Didi Stewart on vocals), a new version of "Somebody To Love", "Today", "Summer Of Love" and Balin's Jefferson Starship hits "Miracles", "Count On Me", "Runaway", his 1980 solo hit "Hearts" and a cover of Canadian folk artist Bruce Cockburn's "Rocket Launcher". Also included is interview footage with original Jefferson Airplane lead singer Signe Anderson and rock journalists Jeff Tamarkin and Craig Fenton. Other points of...

You most likely know Buffy Sainte-Marie from her many Vanguard folk albums or instantly identifiable hits. She's penned An Officer And A Gentleman's Academy Award-winning theme song "Up Where We Belong" (released by Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes), plus the classics "Piney Wood Hills" (recorded by country legend Bobby Bare), "Cod'ine" (covered by Donovan, The Charlatans, and Quicksilver Messenger Service), and "Until It's Time For You To Go" that was immortalized by Elvis Presley then later, Neil Diamond. But Buffy Sainte-Marie is a part of our culture beyond music, having appeared on Sesame Street semi-regularly between 1976 and 1981, having been married to creative powerhouse Jack Nitzsche, and having promoted and campaigned for environmental and social issues as well as the collective interests of Native Americans and First Nations for at least four decades. To this day, her peace anthem...