Out of the Basement: From Cheap Trick to DIY Punk in Rockford, Illinois, 1973-2005 (Scene History)

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Out of the Basement tells the tale of underground music (and mainstream rock that now and again rose out of it) in post-industrial Rockford, Illinois. This can be a bracing, candid, democratic, and leading edge portrayal of a rust belt city full of revolt kids making DIY music in spite of the odds. It combines oral history, brutally honest memoir, music history, and a sense of blunt poetics to capture the ethos of life within the 1970s-2000s, long before the Web made punk accessible to small towners. From dusty used record stores and frenetic skating rinks to dank basements and sweat-piled gigs to the novel forebears like the local IWW chapter, the book follows the stories of rebels struggling to seek out spaces and a sense of community and their place in underground history.
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