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Summary:

"Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music, and, as he writes in this memoir, at no point were any of those bands 'ever threatened, even distantly, by actual fame.' Yet when members of his first band, Bitch Magnet, reunited after twenty-one years to tour ... diehard longtime fans traveled from far and wide to attend those shows, despite creeping middle-age obligations of parenthood and 9-to-5 jobs, testament to the remarkable staying power of the indie culture that the bands predating the likes of Bitch Magnet--among them Black Flag, Mission of Burma, and Sonic Youth --willed into existence through sheer determination and a shared disdain for the mediocrity of contemporary popular music"--Amazon.com.

Author/Creator:

Fine, Jon , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Your band sucks: what I saw at indie rock's failed revolution (but can no longer hear) [by Fine, J.]

Subjects:

Rock music — 2011-2020 — History and criticism

Rock music — 1991-2000 — History and criticism

Rock music — 1981-1990 — History and criticism

1981-2020

Rock music

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

ML3534 .F564 2016

ISBNs:

014310828X
9780143108283

Other Standard Numbers:

International Article Number: 9780143108283

OCLC Numbers:

957677263