Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Adam Verner] An NPR Best Music Book of 2011 Punk rock and hip-hop, disco and salsa, the loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists -- in the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented, all at once, from one block to the next, by musicians who knew, admired, and borrowed from one another...read more

The editors of SPIN magazine offer a definitive, illustrated overview of two decades of alternative music in more than fifty essays by such distinguished journalists as Dave Eggers, Chuck Klosterman, Ann Powers, and Marc Spitz on the evolution of alternative rock as revealed by the contributions of REM, The Pixies, Weezer, Nirvana, and other seminal bands. Original. 40,000 first printing.