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Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes--From Punk to Indie and Everything in Between Paperback - 2009
by Leslie Simon
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From the authors of the breakout hit "Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture" comes a snarky, fact-filled look at the people and places who made the indie music scene what it is today.
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A snarky, fact-filled look at the people and places that made the indie/punk scene what it is today
The American underground music scene is exploding everywhere--not just in New York City and L.A. (although we've got those cities covered too!):
In Washington, D.C. . . . Ian MacKaye and Fugazi inspired the straightedge culture, which had kids everywhere drawing black X's on their hands in magic marker.
In Omaha, Nebraska . . . A young Conor Oberst, aka Bright Eyes, started writing and performing gut-wrenching love songs at the tender age of thirteen.
On Long Island, New York . . . Taking Back Sunday and Brand New battled for emo supremacy and the fragile hearts of a million teenage girls.
From the coauthor of the cult-worthy Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture comes Wish You Were Here--a combination travel guide and tortured history covering everything from what constitutes proper rock critic etiquette in Minneapolis to why pop-punk bands in Chicago have so much suburban angst, to how freegans in the Bay Area can feed themselves on a budget that would make frugal Rachael Ray's face blush.
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- Title Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes--From Punk to Indie and Everything in Between
- Author Leslie Simon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1 Original
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dey Street Books
- Publication date 2009-04-07
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780061573712 / 006157371X
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.08 x 0.67 in (23.11 x 15.44 x 1.70 cm)
- Category Music/Songbooks
- Library of Congress subjects Rock music - United States - History and, Alternative rock music - United States -
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.660
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- Library Journal, 03/01/2009, Page 74
- Publishers Weekly, 01/26/2009, Page 107
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