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‘Boom’: See New Trailer for Documentary About Influential Garage Rockers the Sonics

A documentary about the pioneering garage rock band the Sonics is finally set for wide release next month: See the new trailer for 'Boom.'

Later name-checked by artists like Kurt Cobain and LCD Soundsystem (who immortalized the Sonics on “Losing My Edge”), the core members of Tacoma, Washington quintet formed in the early Sixties and released a pair of now-classic LPs before first splitting by 1968. Further down the line, the Sonics influenced grunge acts from their native Pacific Northwest, including Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil, and Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, all of whom were interviewed for Boom. Boom will first screen at a premiere event in the band’s native Seattle on September 7, at the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP), with the present-day lineup of the Sonics, which still features Lind, also set to perform.

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