The Sundance Film Festival is obviously focused on movies, but music is also a huge part of what’s going on in Park City. This year’s fest featured a handful of music docs, including Muscle Shoals, Twenty Feet From Stardom and Sound City, as well as narratives starring musicians, like I Used to be Darker. The ASCAP Cafe and The Fender Lounge host a steady stream of performances, Park City Live has DJs and bands at night, and clubs like The Star Bar and Cisero’s feature more intimate shows. The highlight of the week was, without question, Dave Grohl’s Sound City showcase, where the Foo Fighters played alongside Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Rick Springfield, Krist Novaselic and members of Slipknot, Fear and Cheap Trick. The most surreal moment, though, happened a couple of nights later, when Courtney Love covered Jay-Z’s “99 Problems.”
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1-2-3 GO! (Dave Matthews Band’s Stefan Lessard, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and Fuel’s Brett Scallions and Kenneth Schalk)
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Vintage Trouble at the Fender Music Lounge
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Vintage Trouble at the Fender Music Lounge
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Kim Taylor
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Kim Taylor
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Kim Taylor and Ned Oldham (stars of I Used To Be Darker)
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The cast of I Used to Be Darker
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Matt Kabus and Amy Wilcox
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Dead Sara
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Courtney Love