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you’re with stupid AmericAn music series Jessica Hopper & Charles L. Hughes, Editors Margo Price, Maybe We’ll Make It: A Memoir Francesca Royster, Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions Lynn Melnick, I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton Lance Scott Walker, DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution Eddie Huffman, John Prine: In Spite of Himself David Cantwell, The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard Stephen Deusner, Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers Eric Harvey, Who Got the Camera? A History of Rap and Reality Kristin Hersh, Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood Hannah Ewens, Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture Sasha Geffen, Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest Chris Stamey, A Spy in the House of Loud: New York Songs and Stories Holly Gleason, editor, Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives Adam Sobsey, Chrissie Hynde: A Musical Biography Lloyd Sachs, T Bone Burnett: A Life in Pursuit Danny Alexander, Real Love, No Drama: The Music of Mary J. Blige Alina Simone, Madonnaland and Other Detours into Fame and Fandom Kristin Hersh, Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt Chris Morris, Los Lobos: Dream in Blue John T. Davis, The Flatlanders: Now It’s Now Again David Menconi, Ryan Adams: Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown Don McLeese, Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere Peter BlAckstock & DAviD menconi, FounDing eDitors you’re with stupid kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music BRUCE ADAMS University of Texas Press Austin Copyright © 2022 by Bruce Adams All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2022 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 utpress.utexas.edu/rp-form ∞ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Adams, Bruce (Record label founder), author. Title: You’re with Stupid : kranky, Chicago, and the reinvention of indie music / Bruce Adams. Other titles: You are with Stupid | American music series (Austin, Tex.) Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022. | Series: American music series | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021060196 (print) | LCCN 2021060197 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-4773-2120-1 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-4773-2616-9 (PDF ebook) ISBN 978-1-4773-2617-6 (ePub ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Kranky (Record label)—History. | Adams, Bruce (Record label founder) | Record labels—Illinois—Chicago—History. | Alternative rock music— Illinois—Chicago—History and criticism. | Underground music—Illinois— Chicago—History and criticism. Classification: LCC ML3792.K73 A32 2022 (print) | LCC ML3792.K73 (ebook) | DDC 780.26/6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021060196 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021060197 doi:10.7560/321201 For Annie contents Introduction 1 1 Hey Chicago 5 2 Honk if You Hate People, Too 31 3 That That Is . . . Is (Not): 1991–1992 43 4 Accelerating on a Smoother Road: 1992–1993 55 5 Analog Technology Makes Space Travel Possible: 1994 77 6 Slow Thrills: 1995 111 7 The Taut and the Tame: 1996 131 8 London Was Ridiculous: 1997 167 9 An Audience Hungry to Hear What Would Happen Next: 1998 193 10 Both Ends Fixed: 1999 219 11 After This They Chose Silence: 2000–2002 225 Epilogue: Specifically Dissatisfied Since 1993 257 Acknowledgments 259 Author’s Notes 261 Index 265 The photographs appear following page 130. you’re with stupid
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