On May 21, 2019, the Our Band Could Be Your Life audiobook was released. None of these bands got much coverage in mainstream rock magazines while they were doing their most innovative and vital work, and Azerrad has done a great job of gathering ex-bandmembers up for revealing interviews.However, the book collapses under the weight of its own in-crowd cool." Audiobook Fascinating stuff." Another writer states that "As music history, this book is important. While it tells the story of bands that truly lived the indie/punk lifestyle, it also sheds a brand new light (not always favorable) on the people in those bands. The book review website Baby Got Books said "If you graduated high school (or were at least supposed to graduate) any time between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s and have any interest whatsoever in music, you absolutely must read this book. 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."
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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." Time's Benjamin Nugent said it was "A timely reminder that Cobain and company were merely a key regiment in the motley alt-rock army. In the New York Times Book Review, critic Eric Weisbard wrote, "In the decade Azerrad covers, indie America proved that world-class rock could be created outside corporate structures. Here's my rave: While reading this 500-page history of '80s indie-rock, I only resorted to something lighter to avoid putting my back out. The Los Angeles Times listed it as one of "46 Essential Rock Reads." In a review of the book in the Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau wrote, ".Let me give Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life its well-earned thumbs-up. In 2009, Paste magazine named the book one of the 12 best music books of the decade. In 2006, The Observer rated Our Band Could Be Your Life as one of the 50 best music books ever written. For example, Ted Leo played Minor Threat and Titus Andronicus played The Replacements. In honor of this book's tenth anniversary, Azerrad put together a special concert at Bowery Ballroom with contemporary bands and artists to perform the music of bands covered in the text.
Butthole Surfers (from San Antonio, Texas).Sonic Youth (from New York City, New York).The Replacements (from Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota).Hüsker Dü (from Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota).Mission of Burma (from Boston, Massachusetts).Minutemen (from San Pedro/Los Angeles, California).Black Flag (from Hermosa Beach/Los Angeles, California).Boon (Minutemen) and Bob Stinson ( The Replacements). The song, which is on the album Double Nickels on the Dime, details the band's working class origins and populist sentiments: " Punk rock changed our lives." The book is dedicated to the lives of D. The title comes from the opening line of " History Lesson – Part II", an autobiographical song written by Mike Watt of Minutemen, one of the bands featured in the book. And I had, appropriately enough, a DIY moment and I thought, Maybe I should do it." Did I black out for 10 minutes? I thought that someone should do something about this. According to Azerrad after exploring the punk era "it skipped and went straight from Talking Heads to Nirvana. The inspiration for the book occurred when Azerrad was watching a miniseries about rock music history. Azerrad conducted many interviews with band members, and also conducted extensive research of old fanzines, as well as more mainstream newspapers and books. It chronicles the careers of several underground rock bands who, while finding little or no mainstream success, were hugely influential in establishing American alternative and indie rock, mostly through nearly constant touring and records released on small, regional independent record labels. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991 is a book by Michael Azerrad.
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