Our Band Could Be Your Life

Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
by Michael Azerrad
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The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever.
Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened...
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Published By Back Bay Books

Format Paperback

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Number Of Pages 528

Publication Date 07/02/2002

ISBN 9780316787536

Dimensions 5.5 inches x 8.25 inches


"Altogether rockin'...Azerrad's coup here is in getting most of the major players to talk...A scrapbook from the last time music mattered."—Patrick Beach, Austin American-Statesman

"A timely reminder that Cobain and company were merely a key regiment in the motley alt-rock army...Our Band Could Be Your Life narrates, down to the homemade posters and tour van repairs, how these bands gradually built up an audience large enough to make record labels and critics take notice."—Benjamin Nugent, Time.com

"In the decade Azerrad covers, indie America proved that world-class rock could be created outside corporate structures...Our Band Could Be Your Life passionately resurrects thirteen indie groups...Azerrad is adept at drawing out musicians' war stories -- and this bare-bones movement was full of them."—Eric Weisbard, New York Times Book Review

 
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