{"id":2251464,"date":"2026-01-26T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2251464"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:38:00","slug":"kim-gordon-and-kathleen-hanna-on-the-best-summer-doc-sonic-youth-beastie-boys-foo-fighters-beck-bikini-kill-at-alternative-rocks-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kim-gordon-and-kathleen-hanna-on-the-best-summer-doc-sonic-youth-beastie-boys-foo-fighters-beck-bikini-kill-at-alternative-rocks-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Gordon and Kathleen Hanna on \u2018The Best Summer\u2019 Doc: Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, Beck, Bikini Kill at Alternative Rock\u2019s Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">It\u2019s a time capsule from the hard-rocking halcyon days before iPhones, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0319931\/\">American Idol<\/a>\u201d and the MP3 audio format changed everything about the music business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt39163244\/\">The Best Summer<\/a>,\u201d which premiered Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, is a documentary film from director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0205542\/\">Tamra Davis<\/a> that captures a potent moment in time for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0034503\/\">Sonic Youth<\/a>, the Beastie Boys, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0793918\/\">Foo Fighters<\/a>, Pavement, Rancid, Beck, Bikini Kill, Kim Deal\u2019s the Amps and other influential 1990s alternative artists.<\/p>\n<p>The 90-minute movie was assembled from footage that Davis shot DIY-style on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0001799\/\">Sony<\/a> Hi8 camcorders in December 1995 and January 1996 as that collection of bands toured Australia on the Lollapalooza-esque Summersault festival. Sonic Youth, the Beastie Boys and Foo Fighters then went on to play dates in Southeast Asia that were promoted by MTV International to tout its newly launched TV channels in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an exhausting tour for me. I remember that a lot,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a time capsule from the hard-rocking halcyon days before iPhones, \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d and the MP3 audio format changed everything about the music business. \u201cThe Best Summer,\u201d which premiered Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, is a documentary film from director Tamra Davis that captures a potent moment in time for Sonic Youth, the Beastie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2251464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Kim-Gordon-and-Kathleen-Hanna-on-\u2018The-Best-Summer-Doc.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251466,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251464\/revisions\/2251466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}