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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Out of the Basement: From Cheap Trick to DIY Punk in Rockford, Il, 1973-2005

Out of the Basement: From Cheap Trick to DIY Punk in Rockford, Il, 1973-2005

Ensminger, David A.

Paperback

Series: Punx, Book 3

Pop/RockPunkRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $7.95

ISBN10: 1621067661
ISBN13: 9781621067665
Publisher: Microcosm Pub
Published: Feb 7 2017
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
Out of the Basement tells the story of underground music (and mainstream rock that sometimes rose out of it) in post-industrial Rockford, Illinois. This is a bracing, candid, democratic, and cutting edge portrayal of a rust belt city full of rebel kids making DIY music despite the odds. It combines oral history, brutally honest memoir, music history, and a sense of blunt poetics to capture the ethos of life in the 1970s-2000s, long before the Internet made punk accessible to small towners. From dusty used record stores and frenetic skating rinks to dank basements and sweat-piled gigs to the radical forebears like the local IWW chapter, the book follows the stories of rebels struggling to find spaces and a sense of community and their place in underground history.

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