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

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

A memoir charting thirty years of the American independent rock underground by a musician who knows it...
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Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear) by Fine, Jon

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

$43.50
Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear) by Fine, Jon

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

$43.50
Author: Jon Fine
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Jon Fine
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 05/03/2016
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780143108283
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Jon Fine is the executive editor of Inc. magazine. As a guitarist--in Bitch Magnet, Coptic Light, and Don Caballero, among others--he's performed around the world and appeared on MTV. As a writer, Fine's long-running BusinessWeek column "Media Centric" won both American Society of Business Publication Editors and National Headliner awards, and his work for Food & Wine won a James Beard Award. He has served as an on-air contributor to CNBC, and his work has also appeared in the Atlantic, GQ, and Details.
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