As you all should know I have championed Michael Azzerad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life as one of the finest books on music and particularly 80s underground music. Many of my favorite bands are chronicled here and I’ve seen a good chunk of them live. Reading all of their stories and the historical background Azzerad shares with us truly inspired me in various ways. Being a massive fan/supporter of several modern underground bands I have considered writing my own little ditty. Now, how would I go about this? Save the obvious dedicated work of researching, interviewing, writing, etc. I’m not referring to that. I mean how would I tell a general story with an overall theme like Azzerad does? Which bands would I choose? If I leaned more towards my favorites would I be featuring artists with too many similarities, i.e. Garage Rock sound? Is it too soon? Most of these bands have not broken up or jumped to major labels or what have you, so their stories haven’t really ended like those in OBCBYL. He also had years behind him to observe the influence of the groups he was studying and the fact that the era he was focusing on was the first era of a unified, anti-corporate, underground. I’m not really looking for someone to tell me what to write or how to write, I guess these are more like questions I’m asking myself. Either way, what are some bands you would like to read about or think is important enough to be chronicled?