Hey Suburbia

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by Mike Damante
Release Date: June 10, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-942549-77-2

"Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise" by Mike Damante explores the ascent of the Warped Tour era. Damante, a journalist who covered this scene, gathers narratives from the 1990s-2000s emo and pop-punk surge. Interviews with bands, publicists, and ardent fans contribute to this book, which serves as an anthem for the underground music movement.

by Mike Damante
Release Date: June 10, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-942549-77-2

"Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise" by Mike Damante explores the ascent of the Warped Tour era. Damante, a journalist who covered this scene, gathers narratives from the 1990s-2000s emo and pop-punk surge. Interviews with bands, publicists, and ardent fans contribute to this book, which serves as an anthem for the underground music movement.

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Mike Damante is an author, journalist and award-winning educator currently based out of Houston, Texas. He has authored two non-fiction books on UFOs and the unexplained: Punk rock and UFOs: Cryptozoology Meets Anarchy, and Punk rock and UFOs: True Believers. Damante has appeared on TV and radio programs like Spectrum News Austin, Fox 26 Houston, Coast to Coast AM, Open Minds TV and various other outlets. As a former music journalist at the Houston Chronicle, Damante has interviewed some of the biggest names in music in blink-182, Childish Gambino, Judas Priest, Aerosmith, Alkaline Trio, Bad Religion, AFI, Rob Zombie and others. He currently continues his music coverage on the MIKED blog at www.chron.com/author/mike-damante/, and his UFO research at www.punkrockandUFOs.com. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife, exercising, watching hockey and living a plant-powered lifestyle.

 
 
 

  • Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise chronicles the music of the Warped Tour generation that launched bands like Paramore and My Chemical Romance into superstardom. Music journalist Mike Damante covered the genre for one of the largest media companies in North America, and has compiled the stories of 1990s-2000s emo and pop-punk explosion as told by himself, the bands, publicists, and the fans who never stopped listening. Featuring interviews with blink-182, Taking Back Sunday, Descendents, Dashboard Confessional, New Found Glory, Good Charlotte, Alkaline Trio, The Get Up Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, Saves The Day and others. Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise is a new anthem for your underground.

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