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Our Band Could Be Your Life

by Michael Azerrad

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This book is a series of profiles of American indie rock bands from 1981 - 1991. Black Flag, Mission of Burma, the Minutemen, Husker Du, The Replacements, the Butthole Surfers, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr., Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, and Beat Happening -- one chapter on each, in an order that works its way through the decade chronologically.

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