Our Band Could Be Your Life
Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
by Michael Azerrad
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"It was a musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties: a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives who reshaped and reenergized American rock music with punk rock's revolutionary do-it-yourself credo. The music that resulted was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. Remarkably, the stories of these now-legendary bands have never been told in any depth - until now."--BOOK JACKET.
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"It's not surprising that the indie movement largely started in Southern California - after all, it had the infrastructure: Slash and Flipside fanzines started in 1977, and indie labels like Frontier and Posh Bov and Dangerhouse started soon afterward."
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This book is a series of profiles of American indie rock bands from 1981 - 1991. Black Flag, Mission of Burma, the Minutemen, Husker Du, The Replacements, the Butthole Surfers, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr., Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, and Beat Happening -- one chapter on each, in an order that works its way through the decade chronologically.
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