"The return-to-simplicity credo was also the working principle for a scene that would develop on US college campuses in the late 1980s, known as "college rock." As an outgrowth of hardcore, this scene celebrated its lack of affiliation with major labels and corporations, as its music was circulated through small independent labels (or sometimes by the bands themselves), airplay on college radio stations, and live performances at clubs that formed a circuit on the country's most important college towns."
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John Covach and Andrew Flory in What's That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and It's History (Sixth Edition). page 461. W.W Norton & Company
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