Simon and Garfunkel helped launch the SUMMER OF LOVE at the Monterey International Pop Festival back in 1967. Its vibe is still being felt half a century later. Anthony Mason takes us to Monterey, ...

Fifty years after the legendary Monterey International Pop Festival laid the groundwork for music festivals, the fest returned to California’s Monterey County Fairgrounds this past weekend. The ...

In 1967 the Monterey Pop Festival served as a launch pad for such luminaries as Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. It also helped bring soul singer Otis Redding in front of a ...

In April 1968, a young writer named Jann Wenner published a blistering indictment of city officials of Monterey in Rolling Stone, the new rock-music newspaper he had founded only a few months before.

Other than a particularly memorable weekend concert back in the LBJ days, the seven professional photographers who will be at the Monterey Museum of Art on Thursday have never before been in the same ...

LOS ANGELES – Before Burning Man and Bonnaroo, Coachella and Lollapalooza, Glastonbury and Governors Island, there was Monterey Pop. Fifty years ago this month, the three-day concert south of San ...

Late last week, it was revealed that the legendary Monterey Pop Festival would be making a comeback for its 50th anniversary, and that the full lineup would be announced today (4/17). The lineup is ...

Monterey – Over three days at the Monterey County Fair & Event Center, another chapter in the history of the Monterey International Pop Festival was written. “It Happened in Monterey” has a deeper ...

With the Monterey International Pop Festival’s return to the scene of the crime 50 years after its debut on the world stage, there is so much more to absorb than meets the eye. The 50th anniversary ...

Music lovers arrive at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., Sunday, June 12, 2011. Forty-four years ago this past weekend, a group of musicians, impresarios, and true believers ...

A second Monterey International Pop Festival has for the past month been put in jeopardy by a vicious handful of citizens, cops and city officials in a small town drama straight from Peyton Place and ...