On today’s show, as summer is set to start, we’re taking a look at summer music, and more specifically, the institution that is ‘The Summer Music Festival.’ From Woodstock to Coachella, the Summer Music Festival has been a glorious celebration of song, of youth culture, of excess, of hooliganism, and of wildness itself. There’s always a little danger lurking around the corner with summer music festivals, be it rain and electrocution at Woodstock Original-Recipe; coked-up Hell’s Angels at Altamont; mud clod-slinging frat boys at Lollapalooza; or disaffected and pissed-off young white men just looking to ‘break something’ at Woodstock ‘99. In recent years, though, summer festivals have taken on a wholly different feel, for better or, as Justin would have you believe, much, much worse. So with all that in mind, we’ll dive into a little of our personal Summer Music Festival histories, and then we’ll take up the then-vs-now debate and decide once and for all what the essential Summer Music Festival experience is, or at least, should be.

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