Every Day is Saturday: The Rock Photography of Peter Ellenby

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Once found only on college radio and small clubs, indie rock has exploded from the underground phenomenon its name suggests to a major rock genre with arena concerts and major label successesfrom the Flaming Lips and Fastbacks to Bright Eyes and Modest Mouse. Through this radical evolution of the past decade, photographer Peter Ellenby has captured the bands and musicians that make up this vibrant scene. An impromptu shooter with a fan's eye, Ellenby uses an array of camerassome of the plastic toy varietythat reveal the energy and street ethic that these bands live and work by. Hundreds of pictures create a document of a vital music scene that has sent some to superstardom and defined a generation. Comes with a 21-track CD with music by Death Cab for Cutie, American Music Club, The Wedding Present, and other bands that created this groundbreaking phenomenon.

In the past ten years indie rock has exploded from the underground phenomenon its name suggests to a genre replete with big names and major label successes. And through it all, photographer Peter Ellenby has captured the bands and musicians that make up this vibrant scene--particularly at Noisepop, the annual San Francisco festival that has come to define the genre. An impromptu shooter with a fan's eye, Ellenby uses an array of cameras--some of the plastic toy variety--that reveal the energy and street ethic that these bands live and work by. Hundreds of pictures create a document of a vital national music scene that has sent some to superstardom and defined a generation.