The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever.Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties -- when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives re-energized Am...

The definitive biography of the revolutionary band Nirvana and its star-crossed frontman Kurt Cobain, hailed by Rolling Stone as “the first [book] to comprehensively tell the band’s tale from Aberdeen, Wash., to world domination”“Amazingly raw and candid . . . an unsparing and extremely honest depiction of the group’s highly tumultuous history . . . Come As You Are is as good as rock bios get.”—Billboard“Just ...

El 24 de septiembre de 1991, Nirvana publicaba "Nevermind", que en cuestión de semanas se convirtió en disco de oro y desbancó a Michael Jackson de la lista de discos más vendidos, y, de paso, reinventó la historia del rock y entronizó la música de guitarras con distorsión made in USA y de sellos como Sub Pop.Michael Azerrad, autor de Nuestro grupo podría ser tu vida ( Our Band Could Be Your Life, 2006) —título fundamental de la literatura musical ...

Michael Azerrad reflects on the meaning of the revolutionary band, Nirvana, his friendship with Kurt Cobain, and the impact of the '90s thirty years later.Includes 20 images of posters and ephemera from the time.Note: This is the compilation of the essay-like annotations from THE AMPLIFIED COME AS YOU ARE: The Story of Nirvana, excluding the underlying 1993 book.Based on his unparalleled access and personal intervie...

Straight out of his beloved Twitter feed @RockCriticLaw, acclaimed rock journalist and author of the classic books Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana and Our Band Could Be Your Life, Michael Azerrad turns his trenchant eye to the art of rock writing itself, hilariously skewering 101 of the genre's seemingly endless litany of hackneyed phrases and tropes.One of the finest music writers today, Michael Azerrad has catalogued the shortcuts, lazy metaphors and unins...

Kurt Cobain, der "Kronprinz der Generation X" (Newsweek), erschoss sich am 8. April 1994 in seinem Haus in Seattle - wenige Monate zuvor hatte er dort gemeinsam mit Michael Azerrad die Arbeit an dieser einzigen autorisierten Nirvana-Biographie beendet. In schonungsloser Offenheit erzählt Cobain in den 18 Kapiteln aus seinem Leben, von seiner freudlosen Jugend in einer Kleinstadt, seinen emotionalen Verletzungen und physischen Leiden bis hin zu der Betäubung mit Drogen und dem zornigen Welt...

The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever.Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties—when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives re-energized Amer...

Selected as a 2024 Audie Award Nominee - Original WorkAn audiobook reflecting on the meaning of the revolutionary band Nirvana, their leader Kurt Cobain, and the band's personal, musical and cultural contexts in the '90s.It has been three decades since Nirvana upended the pop cultural landscape with Nevermind, the landmark album that became the soundtrack of Generation X, capturing its confusion, frustration, and passion. In 1993, Michael A...

The definitive biography of the revolutionary band Nirvana and its star-crossed frontman Kurt Cobain, hailed by Rolling Stone as “the first [book] to comprehensively tell the band’s tale from Aberdeen, Wash., to world domination”“Amazingly raw and candid . . . an unsparing and extremely honest depiction of the group’s highly tumultuous history . . . Come As You Are is as good as rock bios get.”—Billboard“Just ...

"Nuestro grupo podría ser tu vida" ("Our Band Could Be Your Life"), que toma el título de un verso de un tema de The Minutemen y está considerado unánimemente como uno de los mejores libros sobre la música rock jamás escritos, relata la trayectoria musical de trece grupos norteamericanos capitales que dieron lo mejor de sí mismos en la década de los 80. Fueron años convulsos que coincidieron con el mandato del presidente Reagan y su política conservadora y nacionalista, y que, en lo musica...