Format: First edition, hardcover
Condition: Near fine, no dust jacket as issued, slight bumping to corners.
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Publishing Info: Voyageur Press, Mineapolis MN, 2010
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9780760335048
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In the years since Bob Mould, Grant Hart, and Greg Norton dissolved Husker Du, critics, musicians, and fans have constantly cited the trio as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1980's.
In this long-overdue band bio, author Andrew Earles interviews hart and Norton, along with numerous players in that decade's underground, charting the band as they rise above their "loud fast rues" peers and become sonic trailblazers welding pop melodies to ear-shattering volume. Earles shows how the Minneapolis music scene, the national underground network, and the competitive dynamic between Mould and Hart (and between Husker Du and other bands) forged the band's untouchable noise-pop. Earles also examines the band's alternately criticized and copied move to a major label and the quarter-century of conjecture that has clouded the circumstances of their breakup.
Few bands from the original American indie movement did more to inform the alt-rock styles that breached the mainstream in the 1990's. Husker Du was visionary. Here, finally, is the story behind their brilliance.
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Revisiting Spin's interview with Grant Hart in 1989
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