Out Of The Basement: From Cheap Trick To Diy Punk In Rockford, Illinois, 1973-2005 (Scene History)

Out of the Basement tells the story of underground music in post-industrial Rockford, Illinois. This is a bracing, candid, democratic and cutting edge portrayal of a rust belt city full of rebel kids making DIY music despite the odds. It combines oral history, brutally honest memoir, music history, and a sense of blunt poetics to capture the ethos of life in the 1970s-2000s, long before the Internet made punk accessible to small towners.

• • Author: David Ensminger
• • Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
• • Publication Date: Feb 14, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 96 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback/History
• • ISBN-10: 1621067661
• • ISBN-13: 9781621067665