Gimme More Indie Rock

Author : Andrew Earles
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781627883795

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Gimme Indie Rock by Andrew Earles Pdf

The ultimate guide to one of the most revered periods and movements in American rock history.The 1980s are one of the most ridiculed and parodied epochs in popular music€ ” what with all the skinny lapels, synthesizers, spandex, and Aqua Net. However, music fans in the know recognize that beneath the glossy veneer broiled a revolutionary movement of self-directed, anti-corporate, punk-influenced bands that created a nationwide network from the ground up, thanks to independently recorded releases, photocopied fanzines, and self-financed tours.In Gimme Indie Rock, music journalist Andrew Earles describes 500 essential indie-rock albums released by 308 bands and artists from coast to coast in markets large and small. From giants of the movement (Black Flag, the Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Fugazi, Superchunk, Melvins, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Hüsker Dü, the Replacements, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Dinosaur Jr., Big Black, the Pixies), to more obscure bands which nonetheless made their own impacts (Jesus Lizard, Cows, Low, Mercury Rev, Polvo, Squirrel Bait, Karp, Bongwater, Naked Raygun, Sun City Girls, and many others) and scores of artists who still await their proper due (Fly Ashtray, Dumptruck, Truly, Man-Sized Action, Steel Pole Bathtub, godheadSilo, Sorry, Team Dresch, Further, Grifters, World of Pooh, Trumans Water, Malignus Youth, Eggs, and many more), Earles provides an exhaustive album guide to the era. Earles also features those bands that cut their teeth on the indie circuit but graduated to a greater degree of mainstream recognition in the late 1980s and early 1990s (acts like R.E.M., Soul Asylum, Urge Overkill, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, and Nirvana), making Gimme Indie Rock is the definitive manual for the best of American indie music made between 1981 and 1996.

Author : Andrew Earles
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780760346488

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Gimme Indie Rock by Andrew Earles Pdf

"Music journalist Andrew Earles provides a rundown of 500 landmark albums recorded and released by bands of the indie rock genre"--

Author : Vanessa Oswald
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534565210

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Indie Rock by Vanessa Oswald Pdf

The emergence of indie rock as a genre has helped categorize artists who belong to independent record labels. These musicians, due to their refusal to appeal to the mainstream, have boycotted the corporate rock scene to maintain more creative control. Readers learn about the debate behind whether indie bands later picked up by major labels should still be considered "indie" and why some see them as "sell outs." Detailed sidebars, an essential albums list, and annotated quotes from artists and critics are also included to expose readers to the musicians responsible for the inception and continuance of indie rock.

Author : Halfbob,
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791090425088

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Just gimme indie rock! by Halfbob, Pdf

Author : Nathan Brackett,Christian David Hoard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : POPULAR MUSIC--DISCOGRAPHY.
ISBN : 9780743201698

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The New Rolling Stone Album Guide by Nathan Brackett,Christian David Hoard Pdf

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Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1698 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Billboard Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) Number-one Singles by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Michael Azerrad
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780316247184

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Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad Pdf

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 right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties -- when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives re-energized American rock with punk's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. This sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith is an indie rock classic in its own right. The bands profiled include: Sonic Youth Black Flag The Replacements Minutemen Husker Du Minor Threat Mission of Burma Butthole Surfers Big Black Fugazi Mudhoney Beat Happening Dinosaur Jr.

Author : Dr Matthew Bannister
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409493747

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White Boys, White Noise: Masculinities and 1980s Indie Guitar Rock by Dr Matthew Bannister Pdf

To what extent do indie masculinities challenge the historical construction of rock music as patriarchal? This key question is addressed by Matthew Bannister, involving an in-depth examination of indie guitar rock in the 1980s as the culturally and historically specific production of white men. Through textual analysis of musical and critical discourses, Bannister provides the first book-length study of masculinity and ethnicity within the context of indie guitar music within US, UK and New Zealand 'scenes'. Bannister argues that past theorisations of (rock) masculinities have tended to set up varieties of working-class deviance and physical machismo as 'straw men', oversimplifying masculinities as 'men behaving badly'. Such approaches disavow the ways that masculine power is articulated in culture not only through representation but also intellectual and theoretical discourse. By re-situating indie in a historical/cultural context of art rock, he shows how masculine power can be rearticulated through high, avant-garde, bohemian culture and aesthetic theory: canonism, negation (Adorno), passivity, voyeurism and camp (Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground), and primitivism and infantilism (Lester Bangs, Simon Reynolds). In a related vein, he also assesses the impact of Freud on cultural theory, arguing that reversing binary conceptions of gender by associating masculinities with an essentialised passive femininity perpetuates patriarchal dualism. Drawing on his own experience as an indie musician, Bannister surveys a range of indie artists, including The Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and The Go-Betweens; from the US, R.E.M., The Replacements, Dinosaur Jr, Hüsker Dü, Nirvana and hardcore; and from NZ, Flying Nun acts, including The Chills, The Clean, the Verlaines, Chris Knox, Bailter Space, and The Bats, demonstrating broad continuities between these apparently disparate scenes, in terms of gender, aesthetic theory and approaches to popular musical history. The result is a book which raises some important questions about how gender is studied in popular culture and the degree to which alternative cultures can critique dominant representations of gender.

Author : David Samuels
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582435039

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Only Love Can Break Your Heart by David Samuels Pdf

In Only Love Can Break Your Heart, David Samuels writes with a reportorial acumen and stylistic flair that recall the pioneering New Journalism of Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion. Combining elegant, nuanced personal essays with far–out reporting—on the lives of radicals in the Pacific Northwest, anti–abortion zealots, demolition experts, suburban hip–hop stars, and more—Samuels shows us an American landscape whose unsettling mix of profound dislocations and blue–sky optimism is both instantly recognizable and thrillingly new. These essays display his unusual sensitivity to both the tragic and comic dissonances that bubble up from the gap between the American promise of endless nirvana and the lives of salesman, dreamers, aging baseball legends, crackpots, atomic test site workers, and dog track bettors who struggle to live out their dreams one day at a time.

Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781420509724

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The History of Alternative Rock by Stuart A. Kallen Pdf

This volume discusses the history of alternative rock and the ethos of alt-rockers as rebels who value independence, experimentation, and truth-telling. Rather than making music for broad commercial appeal, these musicians drew from a variety of styles that were considered unfriendly for consumers. Over the years, alternative rock has spawned mash-ups of garage rock, punk, new wave, rap, thrash, and hardcore. This group of indie rockers not only created a new sound but also put forth a different attitude, as they outwardly rejected the musical standards and sales practices set by major record companies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : High-fidelity sound systems
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114076909

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Stereophile by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steve Taylor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0826482171

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The A to X of Alternative Music by Steve Taylor Pdf

Covers those bands and artists who have rejected the mainstream in favor of innovation, originality and the pursuit of their own unique musical identity.

Author : Peter Buckley
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 1244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 1843531054

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The Rough Guide to Rock by Peter Buckley Pdf

Compiles career biographies of over 1,200 artists and rock music reviews written by fans covering every phase of rock from R & B through punk and rap.

Author : Jim Ruland
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306925474

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Corporate Rock Sucks by Jim Ruland Pdf

A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and more, by the co-author of Do What You Want and My Damage. Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa Beach, CA, to supply ham radio enthusiasts with tuners and transmitters. But when Ginn wanted to launch his band, Black Flag, no one was willing to take them on. Determined to bring his music to the masses, Ginn turned SST into a record label. On the back of Black Flag’s relentless touring, guerilla marketing, and refusal to back down, SST became the sound of the underground. In Corporate Rock Sucks, music journalist Jim Ruland relays the unvarnished story of SST Records, from its remarkable rise in notoriety to its infamous downfall. With records by Black Flag, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Bad Brains, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, and scores of obscure yet influential bands, SST was the most popular indie label by the mid-80s--until a tsunami of legal jeopardy, financial peril, and dysfunctional management brought the empire tumbling down. Throughout this investigative deep-dive, Ruland leads readers through SST’s tumultuous history and epic catalog. Featuring never-before-seen interviews with the label's former employees, as well as musicians, managers, producers, photographers, video directors, and label heads, Corporate Rock Sucks presents a definitive narrative history of the ’80s punk and alternative rock scenes, and shows how the music industry was changed forever.

Author : Will York
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781915316066

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Who Cares Anyway by Will York Pdf

Late ’70s San Francisco. The Summer of Love is a hazy memory, the AIDS crisis is looming, and nearby Silicon Valley is still an obscure place where microchips are made. The City by the Bay is reeling from a string of bizarre tragedies that have earned it a new name: the “kook capital of the world.” Yet out of the darkness comes a creative rebirth, instigated by punk and sustained by the steady influx of outsiders who view the city as a place of refuge, a last resort. What ensues is a collision of sounds and ideas that spans the golden age of analog DIY culture, from the dark cabaret of Tuxedomoon and Factrix, the apocalyptic sounds of Minimal Man and Flipper, the conceptual humor of Gregg Turkington’s Amarillo Records; through to the subversive pop music of Faith No More, the left-field experimentalism of Caroliner, Mr. Bungle, and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, and much more. Drawing on extensive research—including interviews with over 100 musicians, artists, and other key players—WHO CARES ANYWAY is the first book to chronicle the wild post-punk San Francisco music scene, courtesy of those who lived it. It’s a tale full of existential drama, tragic anti-heroes, dark humor, spectacular failures—and even a few improbable successes.