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

Kelley, Trevor/ Simon, Leslie

ISBN 10: 006157371X / ISBN 13: 9780061573712

Published by Harpercollins, 2009

About this Item

1st edition. 244 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes- From Punk to Indie and Everything in Between
• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006157371X
• ISBN 13: 9780061573712
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Rob Dobi
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.36 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Leslie Simon is the author of Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes and co-author of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture. Her work has appeared in Kerrang!, Alternative Press, metromix.com, and MTV.com.