**• A New York Times Summer Reading List selection • A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book of 2015 *•*A Business Insider Best Summer Read • An Esquire Father’s Day Book selection • A New York Observer Best Music Book of 2015 •A memoir charting thirty years of the American independent rock underground by a musician who knows it intimately**Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing an...

Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music, and, as he writes in this memoir, at no point were any of those bands "ever threatened, even distantly, by actual fame." Yet when members of his first band, Bitch Magnet, reunited after twenty-one years to tour Europe, Asia, and America, diehard longtime fans traveled from far and wide to attend those shows, which was a testament to the rema...