
The Akron Sound: It's Everything, and Then It's Gone
In the early 1970s, rubber was still king in Akron, Ohio. But just a few short years later, Akron's most important product was, ever so briefly, music. In the mid-1970s, a group of local bands took over an old rubber workers' hang-out in downtown Akron called The Crypt and created a mix of punk and art rock that came to be known as "the Akron Sound." And for a while, it was almost "the next big thing." Almost. It's Everything, and Then It's Gone, a Western Reserve PBS production written and directed by Phil Hoffman., takes viewers back to a time when the music really did mean everything. And for the men and women in these local bands, it was a way out of the factory.
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- music history
- akron
- new wave music
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- TVNRWestern Reserve PBS1 Jan 2003
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The Akron Sound: It's Everything, and Then It's Gone was released on 1 January 2003.
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RonKo
4/23/2020
A documentary on The Akron Sound, that brief time in the late 70s when record labels came to Akron, Ohio, looking for the next big thing. Focusing on The Rubber City Rebels, Tin Huey, and DEVO, this is a study of high hopes and broken dreams.
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