“American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture. “ definitive treatment of Hardcore punk.” - LA Times “The definitive work on one of rock's most important eras.” - Juxtapoz This revised and expanded second edition contains hundreds of new bands, interviews, photos, flyers, a "lost" chapter and a new art gallery. Also included are photographs, discographies, and a complete national perspective on the genre. The second edition of the definitive work on one of rocks most important eras (Juxtapoz) has over 100 new pieces of artwork, hundreds of new band bios. 45 DANGEROUS MINDS: The Most Intense Interviews From Seconds Magazine (Creation, 2008), LOST ROCKERS: Broken Dreams and Crashed Careers (powerHouse, 2016), NEW YORK ROCK: From The Rise of the Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB (Macmillan, 2017), BUSTIN' BALLS. The author experienced hardcore firsthand as a promoter, record label owner, and radio DJ, and he intersperses the book's oral histories with his informed commentary. STEVEN BLUSH is the author of AMERICAN HARDCORE: A Tribal History (Feral House, 2001), AMERICAN HAIR METAL (Feral House, 2006). Hardcore's legacy, however, continues to influence the do-it-yourself anticommercial trend of independent record labels and touring networks. Among the important figures who emerged from hardcore are Henry Rollins, Dave Grohl (of Nirvana and Foo Fighters), Ian MacKaye (of Fugazi), and the Beastie Boys. Angrier and less pretentious than the drug-addled punk and new wave music genres, hardcore was an underground tribal movement created with passion but ultimately destroyed by infighting and dissonance.
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