Minutemen and their world audiobook

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. Azerrad conducted many interviews with band members, and also conducted extensive research of old fanzines , as well as more mainstream newspapers and books. The inspiration for the book occurred when Azerrad was watching a miniseries about rock music history. According to Azerrad after exploring the punk era "it skipped and went straight from Talking Heads to Nirvana. Did I black out for 10 minutes? I thought that someone should do something about this. 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.

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