Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes—from Punk to Indie and Everything in Between
    Unavailable
    Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes—from Punk to Indie and Everything in Between
    Unavailable
    Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes—from Punk to Indie and Everything in Between
    Ebook359 pages3 hours

    Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes—from Punk to Indie and Everything in Between

    By Leslie Simon

    2.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    A snarky, fact-filled look at the people and places that made the indie/punk scene what it is today

    The American underground music scene is exploding everywhere—not just in New York City and L.A. (although we've got those cities covered too!):

    In Washington, D.C. . . . Ian MacKaye and Fugazi inspired the straightedge culture, which had kids everywhere drawing black X's on their hands in magic marker.

    In Omaha, Nebraska . . . A young Conor Oberst, aka Bright Eyes, started writing and performing gut-wrenching love songs at the tender age of thirteen.

    On Long Island, New York . . . Taking Back Sunday and Brand New battled for emo supremacy and the fragile hearts of a million teenage girls.

    From the coauthor of the cult-worthy Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture comes Wish You Were Here—a combination travel guide and tortured history covering everything from what constitutes proper rock critic etiquette in Minneapolis to why pop-punk bands in Chicago have so much suburban angst, to how freegans in the Bay Area can feed themselves on a budget that would make frugal Rachael Ray's face blush.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 7, 2009
    ISBN9780061872624
    Unavailable
    Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes—from Punk to Indie and Everything in Between
    Author

    Leslie Simon

    Leslie Simon is the author of Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes and co-author of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture. Her work has appeared in Kerrang!, Alternative Press, metromix.com, and MTV.com.

    Read more from Leslie Simon

    Related to Wish You Were Here

    Related ebooks

    Music For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Siouxsie And The Banshees

      Jul 22, 2022

      Siouxsie And The Banshees
      5 min read

    • Article

      Spellbound!

      Sep 16, 2021

      Spellbound!
      13 min read

    • Article

      Drive-by Truckers

      May 19, 2022

      Drive-by Truckers
      4 min read

    • Article

      Alice In Chains

      Apr 30, 2019

      Alice In Chains
      3 min read

    • Article

      Inside The Happy House

      Jun 19, 2020

      Inside The Happy House
      6 min read

    • Article

      JakobDylan

      Jun 17, 2021

      JakobDylan
      3 min read

    • Article

      Soul Asylum

      Apr 28, 2020

      Soul Asylum
      1 min read

    • Article

      New Wave/post-punk

      Feb 2, 2021

      New Wave/post-punk
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Road To Nevermind

      Jan 4, 2022

      The Road To Nevermind
      11 min read

    • Article

      22 Ultimate Rock Reads

      Jun 25, 2019

      Summer’s approaching, you’re heading off on holiday and you want something to read that will absorb and entertain you. You love your rock, but don’t want to read some shit that a pissed idiot in an AC/DC T-shirt (who was mates with one of the band’s

      7 min read

    • Article

      Being Nergal

      Apr 30, 2020

      Being Nergal
      7 min read

    • Article

      Time Has Told

      May 11, 2023

      Time Has Told
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Stroll Down Abbey Road

      Jul 3, 2019

      Although it features some of their sharpest and most iconic tracks, The Beatles never banked too hard on 1969’s Abbey Road. Technically their final studio album (Let It Be came out a year later, but was recorded largely in ’68), its marketing campaig

      4 min read

    • Article

      Horsegirl

      Apr 12, 2023

      Horsegirl
      2 min read

    • Article

      Way Down In The Hole

      Aug 10, 2023

      Way Down In The Hole
      23 min read

    • Article

      Carrie Brownstein

      Oct 26, 2019

      I’m sure that I discovered this record when I was living in Olympia, Washington, going to college there and hanging out in a very immersive and inspiring punk and music scene and being a very enthusiastic and eager record collector. In the pre-Intern

      2 min read

    • Article

      Surface Noise

      Apr 21, 2017

      Surface Noise
      16 min read

    • Article

      Metal Thrived

      Dec 8, 2022

      Metal Thrived
      5 min read

    • Article

      Here Come The Nice

      Aug 19, 2021

      Here Come The Nice
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Fall

      May 16, 2019

      The Fall
      10 min read

    • Article

      String Theory

      Apr 4, 2023

      String Theory
      9 min read

    • Article

      Covers Of Covers

      Feb 3, 2022

      Covers Of Covers
      14 min read

    Reviews for Wish You Were Here

    2.5/5

    2 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Christie Ridgway does it again. Not sure why I never read this one before. For those who love HEA. Hero, heroibe and minor characters each struggling with their own issues, and how love pervails..