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Jon Fine

    This author examines the raw realities and untold aspects of the music industry, often with sharp wit and incisive irony. His writing delves into themes of lost ideals and the ever-shifting landscape of popular culture. Through his distinctive voice, he captures the essence of the indie music scene, its triumphs, and its failures. Readers will appreciate his ability to blend personal experience with broader cultural observations.

    Your Band Sucks
    • Your Band Sucks

      What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (but Can No Longer Hear)

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      "Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music, and, as he writes in this memoir, at no point were any of those bands 'ever threatened, even distantly, by actual fame.' Yet when members of his first band, Bitch Magnet, reunited after twenty-one years to tour ... diehard longtime fans traveled from far and wide to attend those shows, despite creeping middle-age obligations of parenthood and 9-to-5 jobs, testament to the remarkable staying power of the indie culture that the bands predating the likes of Bitch Magnet--among them Black Flag, Mission of Burma, and Sonic Youth --willed into existence through sheer determination and a shared disdain for the mediocrity of contemporary popular music"--Amazon.com.

      Your Band Sucks