PRESS AND REVIEWS

Boston Globe, Nonfiction Film at the IFFB,” Peter Keough, 4/18/19:

Dig Boston, “How Bill Lichtenstein Got the Band Back Together for a Critical History Doc,” 4/23/19

WBUR-FM Boston, "Film Cements Radio Station’s Place in Music History," Jim Sullivan, 4/19/19:

"Captures the station’s rollicking spirit and free-form style by mixing rare archival clips, photos, and recordings with talking heads . . ranging from former Red Sox southpaw Bill 'Spaceman' Lee to the radical polemicist and linguist Noam Chomsky . . . reliving its idealistic 'revolutionary' origins might stir some of that old passion at a time that could certainly use it." 

WBUR-FM Boston, "Film Cements Radio Station’s Place in Music History," Jim Sullivan, 4/19/19:

Dig Boston, “How Bill Lichtenstein Got the Band Back Together for a Critical History Doc,” 4/23/19

WBUR-FM Boston, "Film Cements Radio Station’s Place in Music History," Jim Sullivan, 4/19/19:

"It was certainly a heady time for rock radio and rock fans; the tight playlist of Top 40 was shed and the music was taken more seriously. But these were tumultuous times for America and Lichtenstein’s inclusion of cataclysmic events into the narrative, thrusts us back into those."

Dig Boston, “How Bill Lichtenstein Got the Band Back Together for a Critical History Doc,” 4/23/19

Dig Boston, “How Bill Lichtenstein Got the Band Back Together for a Critical History Doc,” 4/23/19

Dig Boston, “How Bill Lichtenstein Got the Band Back Together for a Critical History Doc,” 4/23/19

"Stunning . . . the documentary linchpin of this year’s Independent Film Festival of Boston, his film rips wide open a warp into the late 1960s and early ’70s. All with the familiar backdrop of sex, drugs, and music . . . that you won’t get in a gratuitous CNN decade doc.

Martha's Vineyard Times, "Documentary that features Peter Simon streaming," 5/15/20

Boston Globe, "WBCN doc reaches a new audience while boosting community radio stations ," 6/15/20

Dig Boston, “How Bill Lichtenstein Got the Band Back Together for a Critical History Doc,” 4/23/19

WBCN film includes Simon’s photographs and commentary on the rock-and-roll station and activism. 

Boston Globe, "WBCN doc reaches a new audience while boosting community radio stations ," 6/15/20

Boston Globe, "WBCN doc reaches a new audience while boosting community radio stations ," 6/15/20

Boston Globe, "WBCN doc reaches a new audience while boosting community radio stations ," 6/15/20

" . . . Nonprofit stations from Maine to Oregon have shared proceeds, while Lichtenstein has enjoyed a golden opportunity to demonstrate how WBCN’s activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s remains relevant today . . ."

Current, "Documentary provides support for community radio stations during pandemic," 6/18/20

Boston Globe, "WBCN doc reaches a new audience while boosting community radio stations ," 6/15/20

Boston Globe, "WBCN doc reaches a new audience while boosting community radio stations ," 6/15/20

"Another goal of the campaign is to promote public dialogue about media. Lichtenstein said he wanted to make the film as “an object lesson of how media can create social change” and that its lessons are relevant today."