Interstellar Wannabes: A Glitch Rock Retrospective

Darien Campo and Declan Hertel were Radio Macbeth. Their moniker was "your friends have never heard of us." And they never did.

This wit-driven vaporwave journey follows a glitch-rock band from the end of college in 2017, to the end of the world in 2020. It's set at once in the wilds of pastoral Oregon and the nebulae of internet distribution. With the self-taught ethos and underground pride which permeates Portland and the Pacific Northwest, RadMac found new ways to make music, and all the old ways to struggle.

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"There's something powerful, poetic-even timeless-about people with the drive to make art without the promise of fame, fortune, or necessarily having any audience at all. Interstellar Wannabes offers a keen snapshot of a band and a life in the Internet age, for all its interconnected nature, ennui, and self-awareness. Burke De Boer's straightforward prose and sense of humor draw the reader forward for a captivating, infinitely relatable journey."
-Michael Chin, author of My Grandfather's an Immigrant, and So Is Yours and Stories Wrestling Can Tell