Check out the new trailer for the documentary about Garage Rockers the Sonics

A documentary about the pioneering garage rock band the Sonics will be widely released next month, more than five years on boom entered the film festival circuit.

Later name-checking artists like Kurt Cobain and LCD Soundsystem (who immortalized the Sonics in “Losing My Edge”), the core members of the Tacoma, Washington quintet formed in the early ’60s and released a pair of of now-classic LPs before breaking up. until 1968.

However, those two albums – from 1965 Here are the Sonics and the 1966s boom — would serve as one of the foundations of the proto-punk movement led by bands like The Stooges and the MC5. The Sonics further influenced grunge bands from their native Pacific Northwest, including Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil and Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, all interviewed for boom.

After debuting at film festivals in 2018, Boom: A Sonics Movie it was finally distributed nationally last year, with Forge bringing the documentary to dozens of theaters starting September 13th. Before the full release of the document, Rolling Stone exclusively shares the new official trailer of the film:

boom It also boasts interviews with Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Sub Pop producer Jack Endino, as well as all five core members of the Sonics: singer Jerry Roslie, saxophonist Rob Lind, brothers Larry and Andy Parypa (guitar and bass) and drummer Bobby Bennett.

“The Sonics are more than just a band to me.” boomwriter/director Jordan Albertsen said in a statement. “They were my first obsession, rocking harder and faster than anything I’d ever heard. And they were from the sixties! The music was dangerous. Sexy. It was damn hard. This was punk rock before punk rock.”

boom will be shown for the first time at a premiere event in the band’s hometown of Seattle on September 7 at the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP), with the current Sonics lineup, which still features Lind, also set to perform . Check it out boom website for more information about screening.