You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
You're with Stupid
by Bruce Adams
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1477321209 | 281 pages | True EPUB | 14.24 MB
by Bruce Adams
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1477321209 | 281 pages | True EPUB | 14.24 MB
In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair to the national stage. The musical ecosystem from which these bands emerged, though, was expansive and diverse. Grunge players comingled with the electronic, jazz, psychedelic, and ambient music communities, and an inventive, collaborative group of local labels—kranky, Drag City, and Thrill Jockey, among others—embraced the new, evolving sound of indie "rock." Bruce Adams, co-founder of kranky records, was there to bear witness.
In You're with Stupid, Adams offers an insider's look at the role Chicago's underground music industry played in the transformation of indie rock. Chicago labels, as Adams explains, used the attention brought by national acts to launch bands that drew on influences outside the Nirvana-inspired sound then dominating pop. The bands themselves—Labradford, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Low—were not necessarily…