When The Drumming Stops

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Bass player and rapidly aging punk rocker Underend Vicodini is an unlikely hero. His former band, The Gutter Astronomers, was riding high in the 1980s, releasing albums and touring across the country playing to packed nightclubs filled with eager fans, but the Great Recession finds the band members middle-aged and struggling not to drown in the seas of gentrification and disillusion. When lead singer Mickey gets an offer to reunite the band, he jumps at it. But can the old bandmates overcome their acrimonious break up Can they get back into it without shredding their lives

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Steven Wishnia is an award-winning journalist and veteran editor. His writing has appeared in the Nation, the Progressive, the Village Voice, Alternet.org, and High Times, among other publications. As a musician, he may be best known as the '80s punk band False Prophets' bass player.