Such Great Heights - Chris Deville
Ā Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
Maybe you caught a few exhilarating seconds of "Teen Age Riot" on a nearby college radio station while scanning the FM dial in your parentsā car. Maybe your friend invited you to a shabby local rock club and you ended up having a religious experience with Neutral Milk Hotel. Perhaps you were scandalized and tantalized upon sneaking Liz PhairāsĀ Exile in GuyvilleĀ from an older siblingās CD collection, or you vowed to download every Radiohead song you could find on Limewire because they were the favorite band of the guy you had a major crush on. However you found your way into indie rock, once you were a listener, it felt like being part of a secret club of people who had discovered something special, somethingĀ superior. InĀ Such Great Heights, music journalist Chris DeVille brilliantly captures this cultural moment, from the early aughts and the height of indie rock, until the 2010s as streaming rocks the industry and changes music forever. DeVille covers the gamut of bands and in the vein of Chuck KlostermanāsĀ The Nineties, touches on staggering pop culture moments like sharing music recommendations via AOL Instant Messenger and the life-changingĀ OCĀ soundtrack. Nerdy, fun, and a time machine for millennials,Ā Such Great HeightsĀ is about how subculture becomes pop culture, how capitalism consumes what's "cool," about who gets to define what's hip and how, and how an "underground" genre shaped our lives.
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Ā Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
Maybe you caught a few exhilarating seconds of "Teen Age Riot" on a nearby college radio station while scanning the FM dial in your parentsā car. Maybe your friend invited you to a shabby local rock club and you ended up having a religious experience with Neutral Milk Hotel. Perhaps you were scandalized and tantalized upon sneaking Liz PhairāsĀ Exile in GuyvilleĀ from an older siblingās CD collection, or you vowed to download every Radiohead song you could find on Limewire because they were the favorite band of the guy you had a major crush on. However you found your way into indie rock, once you were a listener, it felt like being part of a secret club of people who had discovered something special, somethingĀ superior. InĀ Such Great Heights, music journalist Chris DeVille brilliantly captures this cultural moment, from the early aughts and the height of indie rock, until the 2010s as streaming rocks the industry and changes music forever. DeVille covers the gamut of bands and in the vein of Chuck KlostermanāsĀ The Nineties, touches on staggering pop culture moments like sharing music recommendations via AOL Instant Messenger and the life-changingĀ OCĀ soundtrack. Nerdy, fun, and a time machine for millennials,Ā Such Great HeightsĀ is about how subculture becomes pop culture, how capitalism consumes what's "cool," about who gets to define what's hip and how, and how an "underground" genre shaped our lives.
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Ā Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
Maybe you caught a few exhilarating seconds of "Teen Age Riot" on a nearby college radio station while scanning the FM dial in your parentsā car. Maybe your friend invited you to a shabby local rock club and you ended up having a religious experience with Neutral Milk Hotel. Perhaps you were scandalized and tantalized upon sneaking Liz PhairāsĀ Exile in GuyvilleĀ from an older siblingās CD collection, or you vowed to download every Radiohead song you could find on Limewire because they were the favorite band of the guy you had a major crush on. However you found your way into indie rock, once you were a listener, it felt like being part of a secret club of people who had discovered something special, somethingĀ superior. InĀ Such Great Heights, music journalist Chris DeVille brilliantly captures this cultural moment, from the early aughts and the height of indie rock, until the 2010s as streaming rocks the industry and changes music forever. DeVille covers the gamut of bands and in the vein of Chuck KlostermanāsĀ The Nineties, touches on staggering pop culture moments like sharing music recommendations via AOL Instant Messenger and the life-changingĀ OCĀ soundtrack. Nerdy, fun, and a time machine for millennials,Ā Such Great HeightsĀ is about how subculture becomes pop culture, how capitalism consumes what's "cool," about who gets to define what's hip and how, and how an "underground" genre shaped our lives.
