Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes-from Punk to Indie and Everything in Between

Wish You Were Here (an Essential Guide To Your Favorite Music Scenes--from Punk To Indie And Everything In Between) (paperback) - By Trevor Kelley,rob Dobi

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...

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.

Wish You Were Here (an Essential Guide To Your Favorite Music Scenes--from Punk To Indie And Everything In Between) (paperback) - By Trevor Kelley,rob Dobi

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...