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Music We Like (Mostly): Alternative, Indie, Underground

Whatever that means.
These publications are about music that used to be called "underground," then "progressive", then "alternative rock" then "indie rock" and now it's just called "indie". In most cases, these bands exist in opposition to larger market forces. It's not really a genre so much as a status. But it's also kind of a genre.
Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

Three Rivers Press

Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

$24.00
Conform To Deform: The Weird And Wonderful World Of Some Bizzare

Jawbone Press

Conform To Deform: The Weird And Wonderful World Of Some Bizzare

$24.95
A Continual Farewell: My Life in Letters with Tony Wilson

Omnibus Press

Continual Farewell: My Life in Letters with Tony Wilson

$37.00
Cool Town (paperback)

University of North Carolina Press

Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

$20.00
Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

Da Capo Press

Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

$27.50
Daniel Johnston

Rizzoli

Daniel Johnston

$55.00
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Dokkiri

Public Bath Press

Dokkiri! Japanese Indies Music 1976-1989 A History and Guide

$26.00
Don't Say Please

Feral House

Don't Say Please ― The Oral History of Die Kreuzen

$26.95
A Drink with Shane MacGowan

Grove Press

Drink with Shane MacGowan

$17.00
Echoes: A Memoir Continued

Third Man Books

Echoes: A Memoir Continued

$21.95
Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery

Hachette

Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery

$30.00
Fallopian Rhapsody

Hachette

Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of the Lunachicks

$18.99
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