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Monterey Pop Announces Lineup for 50th Anniversary Festival: Father John Misty, Kurt Vile, Jim James, and More

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Before Woodstock, Monterey Pop was the first defining, large-scale rock festival. The first Monterey International Pop Festival took place in 1967 at the fairgrounds in Monterey, California, and featured the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Who and more. (It was notably documented in the…