Introduction -- Part I: The players. The Numbers Band (15-60-75) ; The Rubber City Rebels ; Tin Huey ; The Bizarros ; Devo ; Hammer Damage ; Unit 5 ; Chi-Pig ; The Waitresses ; Liam Sternberg ; Robert Christgau ; Those who played an "Akron sound" somewhere else ; All those other great bands -- Part II: The places. The Crypt ; The Bank ; JB's ; Bushflow Studios ; Clone Records -- Part III: Not quite the end. After the sound.;"Music made in Akron symbolized an attitude more so than a singular sound. Crafted by kids hell-bent on not following their parents into the rubber plants, the music was an intentional antithesis of Top 40 radio. Call it punk or call it new wave, but in a short few years, major labels signed Chrissie Hynde, Devo, the Waitresses, Tin Huey, the Bizarros, the Rubber City Rebels and Rachel Sweet. They had their own bars, the Crypt and the Bank. They had their own label, Clone Records. They even had their own recording space, Bushflow Studios. London's Stiff Records released an Akron compilation album, and suddenly there were "Akron Nights" in London clubs and CBGD was waiving covers for people with Akron IDs. Author Calvin Rydbom of the "Akron Sound" Museum remembers that short time when the Rubber City was the place."--Back cover