Your Band Sucks: Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)

Title: Your Band Sucks: Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)
Author: Jon Fine
ISBN: 9780143108283
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 320
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
C: 1698170
Section: Music | History & Criticism | General
Publisher Description: - A New York Times Summer Reading List selection - A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book of 2015 - A Business Insider Best Summer Read - An Esquire Father's Day Book selection - A New York Observer Best Music Book of 2015 -

A memoir charting thirty years of the American independent rock underground by a musician who knows it intimately

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 Europe, Asia, and America, 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 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.

Like Patti Smith's Just Kids, Your Band Sucks is a unique evocation of a particular aesthetic moment. Fine tracks how the indie-rock underground emerged and evolved, how it grappled with the mainstream and vice versa, and how it led many bands to an odd rebirth in the 21st Century in which they reunited, briefly and bittersweetly, after being broken up for decades. With backstage access to many key characters in the scene--and plenty of wit and sharply-worded opinion--Fine delivers a memoir that affectionately yet critically portrays an important, heady moment in music history.