The Best Summer (2026)

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Immersive POV camera footage reveals electric performances, candid interviews, and intimate backstage life with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Pavement, Rancid, Beck, The Amps, and Bikini Kill — an all-access view inside an era-defining moment in music.

The Best Summer

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Cast

Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon as Self Age 73 · Rochester, New York, USA Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She is lead singer, bass and guitarist in the alternative rock band Soni...
Beck
Beck as Self Age 56 · Los Angeles, California, USA Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970), known by the stage name Beck, is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Beck rose to fame in the early 1990s with his l...
Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl as Self Age 57 · Warren, Ohio, USA David Eric "Dave" Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for the Foo Fight...
Tim Armstrong
Tim Armstrong as Self Age 60 · Albany, California, USA Timothy Ross Armstrong is an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. Known for his distinctive hoarse and soulful voice, he is the singer/guitarist for the punk rock band Rancid an...
Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore as Self Age 67 · Coral Gables, Florida, USA Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outsi...
Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna as Self Age 57 · Portland, Oregon Kathleen Hanna is an American musician, artist, feminist activist, and punk zine writer. In the early-to mid-1990s she was the lead singer of feminist punk band Bikini Kill, before fronting Le Tigre i...
Director Tamra Davis
Cast Kim Gordon, Beck, Dave Grohl, Tim Armstrong, Thurston Moore, Kathleen Hanna, Lars Frederiksen, Tobi Vail, Nate Mendel