Love Rock Revolution K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
, by BAUMGARTEN, MARKNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781570618222 | 1570618224
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/10/2012
Punk isn't a sound; it's an idea. That is the lesson that Calvin Johnson took from the '70s and brought into the '80s, when he created K Records, a modest cassette-only record label that would become one of the most transformative engines of underground culture in the twentieth century. Here is the first book to tell the story of K Records, the Olympia, Washington, record label that became one of the most influential engines in the international underground music movement of the '80s. Thirty years ago, a teenager named Calvin Johnson started a record label that would change the world of music with a revolutionary manifesto and a love of rock and roll. Love Rock Revolutiontells the whole story, from the punk pioneers of the 1970s that shaped Johnson's worldview, through K Records' rise in the '80s, to its struggle to stay true to its revolutionary spirit after Kurt Cobain, another Olympian, brought the underground to the masses in the '90s.