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	Our Band Could Be Your Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 is a book by Michael Azerrad (ISBN 0-316-78753-1).
		Our Band Could Be Your Life has sold well, and has earned mostly positive reviews; one notes that "one of the best books yet on punk, college, or indie rock and the roots of the alt-rock juggernaut." ISBN 0-316-06379-7;
		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...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life (341 words)

	The Books: Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
		Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life vividly traces the arc of the American indie underground in the Eighties, from obscure beginnings to the point a decade later when the mainstream sat up and took notice.
		Featuring scores of interviews with band members, label heads, and others within the inner circle, Our Band Could Be Your Life is the first book ever to delve deeply into the gritty realities of life on music's cutting edge in the Eighties, a time when setting one's sights low was virtually a political statement.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/35/0316063797 (273 words)

	Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981–1991 \| The Onion - America's Finest ...
		Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981–1991
		Azerrad's subtitle is carefully worded: Our Band isn't meant to be a definitive look at the American music underground.
		That band's history contrasts sharply with that of Minor Threat, whose members became virtual cult leaders, lyrically preaching abstinence from chemicals and casual sex while also expressing the virtues of an occasional good fight.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/20274 (467 words)

	The Independent: Music: Rock & Roll Quarterly: Our Band Could Be Your Life
		Our Band Could be Your Life is an addictive read: My copy of it was dragged thousands of miles across America, stepped on, dropped in a puddle, and silently fought over in the van.
		Only three of these bands are still making music, but the power of what they created resonates across three different generations of listeners, including myself and the other four guys I crossed half of America with earlier this year.
		You should play your guts out anytime anywhere and it doesn't matter how many people are there." Ethics like these reiterated to me why I was touring in a band, sacrificing all sense of financial/social stability; there's a strange sense of honor in it, and the bands Azerrad writes about created that.
	www.indyweek.com /durham/2001-11-14/volume7.html (1313 words)

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		A new book entitled Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981 — 1991, attempts, in part, to set the record straight and show that there is bad popular music in any era.
		The bands selected are each explored in a separate chapter and include Black Flag, The Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Minor Threat, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr, Fugazi, Mudhoney, and Beat Happening.
		However, perhaps Azerrad, after writing for the very same mainstream magazines he condemns for not giving his favorite indie bands coverage, also feels compromised and is experiencing pangs of guilt over the fact that the stereotypical indie lifestyle he hails, was ultimately not the one he chose to follow.
	www.the-declaration.com /print.php?showarticle=349 (870 words)

	Books : Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Our Band Could Be Your Life is a sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith that is already being recognized as an indie rock classic in its own right.
		Our Ban Could Be Your Life (taken from a lyric in a Minutemen song) chronicles the independent music movement in post punk America by following 13 bands through the 80's and 90's.
		It's hard to believe that these bands were out there over 25 years ago in some cases and so many of the labels are history.
	asthma-treatment.us /ItemId/0316787531 (550 words)

	Q & A with Michael Azerrad
		Azerrad profiles thirteen bands in his new book, all of which share much of the responsibility for blazing a trail to the indie rock explosion of the early nineties.
		Besides the fact that they are such a huge influence on the biggest bands of the nineties and beyond, they really demonstrated some things that we shouldn't ever forget.
		But what's left is this infrastructure that all these eighties bands and early-nineties bands created, which is even more radio stations, even more stores, more places to play, and most importantly, even more labels and bands than there were in the eighties.
	www.geocities.com /mowgli92107/Azerrad-QA.html (2357 words)

	Michael Azerrad by E-Mail (Scott Woods) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Well, R.E.M. was technically not an indie band since all but their first single was distributed by major labels; they enjoyed advantages that the bands in OBCBYL could only dream about.
		The iconic early American punk bands were overwhelmingly based in Los Angeles or New York but one of the greatest points made by the American indie movement in the '80s was that great musical art can be made anywhere, not just in the coastal media centers.
		I saw most of the bands in the book live but I wouldn't say I was exclusively a full-fledged citizen of the indie nation--I was into a lot of different kinds of music at the time, and still am.
	www.rockcritics.com /interview/michaelazerrad_woods.html (4879 words)

	Book (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If you’re familiar with these bands or connect with their beliefs and know others who do, the characters will remind you of your own life and your cynic indie self will gain a renewed appreciation for your own community.
		Chances are there’s a band down the street that you think is just as good, and quite possibly better, than any of these so-called popular acts on the radio and MTV.
		And like my take on Our Band Could Be Your Life, my first reaction is to question why she wrote it at all.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=56689 (1771 words)

	TIME.com: The Bands that Made Nirvana -- Page 1
		Azerrad, who wrote the 1994 Nirvana bio "Come As You Are," well knows how indispensable Kurt Cobain's band was in alt-rock's rise to prominence, but "Our Band Could Be Your Life" is a lesson in the impossibility of reducing the revolution to an individual (or a trio).
		Somewhere out there, it makes one believe, could very well be brilliant rock bands nobody's heard of, least of all the 15-year-olds at Tower Records, trying to catch some sleep on dusty floors before they have to lug their amps back to their Econolines.
		A band that could be your life, or, at long last, the death of the upbeat pop groups who already sound like the music of a bygone, prosperous era.
	www.time.com /time/sampler/article/0,8599,169666,00.html (916 words)

	Cineblog » Our Band Could Be Your Life - Michael Azerrad
		Our Band Could Be Your Life - Michael Azerrad
		An extremely entertaining book chronicling the life and death of a dozen of the most influential punk, grunge and indie rock bands to come up through the 80s and 90s.
		One of the most interesting thing is that while all the early punk bands were totally DIY and comitted to it, they all went about it completely differently.
	www.cineblog.org /?p=10 (687 words)

	LEFT OFF THE DIAL - Book Review & Commentary: Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad - 10/01 Feature Article
		Similarly, Azerrad discusses each bands unique work ethicfrom Dinosaur Jrs signature slacker work ethic to Fugazis staunch agenda for overhaul of the entire DC hardcore scene to the Replacements determination to be average.
		The bands in Our Band Could Be Your Life did not necessarily share a similar sound or a similar work ethic.
		For a band on an indie lable to achieve an audience for its music is extremely difficult, but as Azerrad repeatedly emphasizes, the alternative is a devastating loss of creativity and independence.
	www.leftoffthedial.com /10_01FeatureArticle.htm (1042 words)

	Product Reviews - Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 - LaptopEdge.com - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Besides the fact that bands could barely make any money doing what they do, it seemed to be a good time for all! I'm not going to go into descriptions of all the band's tales because you should go out and buy this book, but I will tell you a few of my favorites.
		There is also very little clarity in explaining who influenced these bands and how they developed their sounds. Moerver, the book is narrow in focus not only in the way in which it writes about the bands it covers, but also in terms of its apparent fear of history.
		The main thrust of "Our Band Could Be Your Life" is that the D.I.Y. ethic is one that a person can adapt to THEIR life, without being a musician, artist or part of any movement.
	www.laptopedge.com /reviews-0316787531.html (9904 words)

	David Cohen/books/American Copy Editors Society
		Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground,1981-1991
		an engrossing new book about 13 bands from around the United States that existed on the fringes of popular culture, a place where pop hooks and carefully sculpted looks were replaced with music of ferocity and intensity.
		Many of these musicians (some of whom are still quite active) were interviewed for this book, and a common theme seems to be that very few of them ever thought there was any chance they'd become famous.
	www.copydesk.org /books/cohen1.htm (429 words)

	Amazon.ca: Our Band Could Be Your Life : Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981-1991: Books: Michael Azerrad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Azerrad, however, is careful not to glorify this era: sprinkled throughout his inspiring pictures of musical revolt are details of the poverty and drug-induced dilemmas each band faced on its path to cult icon status.
		Sometimes the bands seemed to be mere commodities within the larger label-centric narrative, which would have been fine if the focus had been to document the rise and fall of the punk indie.
		Every band mentioned is phenominal and most are fairly different from one another, which helps to cover the variety of music that still lays under the radar, in the ever expanding relm of indipendant music.
	www.amazon.ca /Our-Band-Could-Your-Life/dp/0316787531 (2055 words)

	Amazon.com: Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991: Books: Michael Azerrad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
		Pretty much every band profiled was the best band in the world in their own chapter, while when mentioned in another chapter they might come off as inconsequential.
		All these bands either broke up before 1991, changed to a major label or are Fugazi and had a greater influence during these years.
	www.amazon.com /Our-Band-Could-Your-Life/dp/0316063797 (2969 words)

	KindaMuzik - Achtergrond: Our Band Could Be Your Life
		THIS BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE Michael Azerrad decided to write up what was ignored by the history books, namely the bands that laid the foundation for Nirvana.
		I chose the bands in Our Band Could Be Your Life because they most fully represented some key aspect of the arc which the American indie underground took between 1981 and 1991.
		The whole point of the form of Our Band Could Be Your Life is that it is representational - it in fact tells the complete story using certain bands as examples.
	www.kindamuzik.net /article.shtml?id=977 (1832 words)

	Built on a Weak Spot: Our Band Could be Your Life... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I'll admit, I was never really an avid listener of all things Burma, but this release has me sold as them being a fantastic band and that has me back tracking and listening to their older material all over again.
		The absence of Jim O'Rourke has changed the overall approach of the band, or maybe not really changed, rather than leaving their sound somewhere in the middle ground of past and what we knew as the present.
		It's a pleasant album though, with mostly straight forward rock songs, and really is the sort of album that would only be expected from a band that is in its 20th album of pumping out jams.
	www.builtonaweakspot.com /2006/05/our-band-could-be-your-life.html (379 words)

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		"Our Band Could Be Your Life (Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991)" by Michael Azerrad (published by Little, Brown, and Co. Publishing 2001; www.twbookmark.com)
		While most of these bands were anti-corporation and distrusted major labels, The Butthole Surfers announced that it was their life long ambition to be on a major label.
		If you're not into alternative music, but play in a band, this book could still be informative.
	www.wormtown.org /article.php?story=20040601230945322 (1300 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Radio & Music > Our Band Could Be Your Life
		Azerrad bookends his study of 1980s punk music with profiles of bands at opposite ends of the punk-DIY-indie-whatever continuum.
		In between, Azerrad limns such bands as Husker Du--whose early "mission [was] to impress the hell out of Black Flag"--the Minute Men, Butthole Surfers, and Mudhoney in one of the best books yet on punk, college, or indie rock and the roots of the alt-rock juggernaut.
		Number two, it wasn't easy to tell from the text if the quotes from interviews with principles came for the same time as the recordings benig discussed or while the book was being written.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/4082 (477 words)

	dallasobserver.com \| News \| Band Aid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Until Nevermind exploded in 1991, few in the underground rock scene imagined that a life in music could offer much more than head lice, intestinal parasites, malnutrition, nightly fuck-overs by unscrupulous booking agents--you know, the stuff dreams are made of.
		But there's no denying that the world is a dramatically different place than it was in 1981--and, despite the fact that rock (indie or otherwise) probably isn't dead, it's not exactly galvanizing the kids these days, at least not in any significant numbers.
		Regionalism, a dominant theme of Our Band Could Be Your Life, still exists, but it's no longer rooted in geography: "Like-minded people band together virtually instead of physically these days," Azerrad remarks.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2001-09-20/music_full.html (1046 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991: Books: Michael Azerrad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A fantastic look at the bands that sowed the seeds for Nirvana's rise to prominence in the early 1990s, although there is nothing on The Pixies as they were signed to a major label i the US.
		Not all of them may have changed the face of music - although several could claim to - but each are admirable in their bloody mindedness and desire to operate outside the ruling major label system.
		Azerrad lets band members tell their own stories and, like all music books should do, this sends you scurrying back to the old vinyl you hadn't played in years - and makes the music sound more vital than ever.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0316787531 (780 words)

	Our Band Could Be Your Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Some people will even tell you that "indie" equates "good," but if you ask me, judging any band by what kind of record label they are on is pretty dumb.
		Michael Azerrad's book Our Band Could Be Your Life does a fine job of documenting the history of thirteen bands and the eighties indie rock movement they were a part of.
		The tales the musicians relate keep you turning the pages - most of the bands look back in amusement at how they scraped by, only to eventually sign to a major label or end up in obscurity.
	www.readexiled.com /ourband.htm (495 words)

	The Books: Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith is already being recognized as an indie rock classic in its own right.
		Among the bands profiled in This Band Could Be Your Life
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