Description
Book SynopsisA twisting path through Austin's underground music scene in the twentieth century's last decade, narrated by the people who were there.
Trade ReviewFeaturing members of the Big Boys, Butthole Surfers, Spoon, and more – including the unsung ladies who made Austin DIY more than a boys club – this new oral history should be required reading for all contemporary scenesters interested in learning more about the slacker generation. * The Austin Chronicle *
Table of Contents
- Introduction. Nobody Here but Us Wounded Chickens
- The Cavity: The Cavity Creeps
- Emo’s: Johnny Cash Sat Here
- Radio: None of the Hits, All of the Time
- Hole in the Wall: Cheap Music, Fast Drinks, Live Women
- Blue Flamingo: Those Horses Do Bite!
- Chances: We’ll Just Rock for Ourselves
- Sweatbox Studios: Sweatbox Is Burning (or, Honk If Dick Cheney Shot Your Landlord in the Face)
- TV and Video: Raw Meat in the Studio
- Zines, Flyers, and the Press: Putting the Word in the Streets
- Sound Exchange: Bitter People with No Future Selling Music
- Record Labels: Bitter People with No Future Starting Labels
- Trance Syndicate: Love and Napalm
- Electric Lounge: My Childhood Hero Is Getting Pelted with Roses
- Liberty Lunch: By the ’90s, We Were Rocking
- The End: It Doesn’t Go On Forever
- Acknowledgments
- Cast of Characters
- Chronology
- 100 Essential Underground Releases of the 1990s (in Chronological Order)
- A Curious Mix of the Departed: In Memoriam
- Notes
- Index
