NEWS
July 19, 2007 | Steve Appleford, Special to The Times
NOT every rock fan experienced the 1980s in exactly the same way. Springsteen, Prince and Madonna might have dominated mainstream pop music that decade, but there was another, noisier sound already emerging from the American rock underground, an aggressive, mind-expanding racket from the likes of Black Flag, Husker Du, the Minutemen and Sonic Youth. Chart action was minimal.