Michael Azzerad's Our Band Could Be Your Life book unveils the untold story of a musical revolution that unfolded during the Reagan Eighties. Within this era, a modest yet expansive network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversive elements revitalized American rock by embracing punk's do-it-yourself ethos. The result was a collection of deeply personal, often brilliant, consistently challenging, and highly influential music. This expansive chronicle encompasses the realms of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith, solidifying its status as an indie rock classic.

Our Band Could Be Your Life book

Name: Our Band Could Be Your Life book
Brand: Back Bay Books
SKU: RCD040

SKU: RCD040

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Michael Azerrad
"Azerrad crisscrosses the American landscape of nineteen-eighties "underground" rock music, from Washington, D.C. (which spawned such bands as Fugazi and Minor Threat), to Washington state (Mudhoney, Beat Happening). He profiles thirteen bands that came of age before Nirvana closed the gap between alternative rock and the mainstream market, and the best stories here are the most marginal, such as the chapter on the explosive Boston band Mission of Burma. Even in his treatment of better-known bands, though, Azerrad does a fine job of demonstrating how the post-punk prime movers of the eighties echoed the original rock-and-rollers of the fifties—springing from a complacent political climate to reject the sentimental excesses of the music that preceded them." — The New Yorker