Altamont Diary is the debut album by Melbourne electronica band Black Cab.

Released in 2004, it is a concept album based on the ill-fated 1969 free concert at Altamont Speedway in California headlined by the Rolling Stones.

[4] David Fricke wrote in US Rolling Stone magazine: “With bloodied-fuzz guitars, hellish electronics and sound bites from Gimme Shelter, the Australian duo Black Cab has created a riveting, album-length memorial to the fatal folly of the Rolling Stones' free concert at Altamont Speedway.”[4] Band programmer Andrew Coates said he came up with the idea while living in San Francisco.

"In a collectors' shop I found the issue of Rolling Stone magazine that came out after Altamont with a 20-page special.

"[5] He said San Francisco "had already got a bit shitty—the Grateful Dead had moved out of their squat and into the hills, and the Haight-Ashbury was full of street kids and harder drugs.