Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991

by Michael Azerrad

The American underground in the Eighties embraced the radical notion that maybe, just maybe, the stuff that was shoved in our faces by the all-pervasive mainstream media wasn’t necessarily the best stuff.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be about getting anywhere, but about getting through the process of fulfilling your own possibilities.”

Brendan Canty, Fugzi