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You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (American Music Series),New
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2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsAn insiders look at how Chicagos underground music industry transformed indie rock in the 1990s.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 labelskranky, Drag City, and Thrill Jockey, among othersembraced the new, evolving sound of indie rock. Bruce Adams, cofounder of kranky records, was there to bear witness.In Youre with Stupid, Adams offers an insiders look at the role Chicagos 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 Nirvanainspired sound then dominating pop. The bands themselvesLabradford, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lowwere not necessarily based in Chicago, but it was Chicago labels like kranky that had the ears and the infrastructure to do something with this new music. In this way, Chicagoshaped sounds reached the wider world, presaging the genreblending music of the twentyfirst century. From an author who helped create the scene and launched some of its best music, Youre with Stupid is a fascinating and entertaining read.
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