Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 - Michael Azerrad

Lauded as the authoritative document on the rise of the American indie underground, Our Band Could Be Your Life compiles the lives, music, and DIY ethics of 13 seminal bands and their exponential effect on America’s alternative culture. Bridging the gap from the ‘70s punk movement to the mainstream explosion of the grunge era, journalist Michael Azzerad explores a decade of sonic territory through the stories of bands likes the Minutemen, Fugazi, The Replacements, and Sonic Youth. From Minor Threat and the birth of hardcore, to the acid-fueled antics of the Butthole Surfers, Azzerad honors each band’s unique trajectory with exciting and compelling prose.

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ISBN: 9780316787536
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Published: Back Bay Books - July 2nd, 2002

Signifying Rappers - Mark Costello, David Foster Wallace

After years of being the stuff of legends, David Foster Wallace & Mark Costello's discussion of being white boys who find themselves in love with the art of rap is back for our reading pleasure. Signifying Rappers may be born out of their discomfort, but these excellent writers use their awareness of being white boys in Cambridge Mass. loving a music foreign to their lives to discuss what new movements in music have always offered us: freedom, revolution, and pleasure. The book captures a golden moment in the lives of two stunning authors, a summer where their minds flexed and issued challenged musicians and music journalists alike to take seriously both the art of rap and the cultural role of music itself.

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ISBN: 9780316225830
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Published: Back Bay Books - July 23rd, 2013

Just Kids - Patti Smith

Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not Patti Smith’s.  This memoir is the story of her and artist Robert Mapplethorpe’s struggle to pay their rent and be saved through their art in New York City during the 1960s and 70s.  Smith’s writing is elegant and honest, and I was impressed by the directness with which she recalled her younger self’s feelings and perceptions.  Just Kids is a book about growing up and living on one’s own – but at the heart of the story is the passionate friendship between Patti and Robert.

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ISBN: 9780060936228
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Published: Ecco - November 2nd, 2010

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