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Out Of The Basement – From Cheap Trick to DIY Punk in Rockford, Illinois, 1973-2005 – Book
By David Ensminger
The story of underground music in post-industrial Rockford, Illinois. This is a bracing, candid, 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.
96 pages, 14cm x 18cm. (RRP $7.95)
