Our Band Could Be Your Life
Subtitle: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: July 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780316063791
Subjects: Indie; c 1980 to c 1990; Music; Music/Songbooks; USA; Alternative; History & Criticism - General; Rock; Music / Rock; General; Alternative rock music; Alternative rock musicians; History and criticism; Rock groups; United States
First sentence: 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.
Description: "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.