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Bitch Magnet (Musical group)
Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Alternative rock music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Fine, Jon.
Bitch Magnet (Musical group)
Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Alternative rock music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Your band sucks : what I saw at indie rock's failed revolution (but can no longer hear) / Jon Fine.
by
Fine, Jon
Viking, c2015.
Call #:
781.660973 F491y
Subjects
Fine, Jon.
Bitch
Magnet
(
Musical
group
)
Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Alternative rock music -- United States -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9780670026593 (hc)
Description:
xviii, 302 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
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 ... 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 the likes of
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.
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Memoirs.
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