Sahan Jayasuriya, author of DON'T SAY PLEASE - an in-person event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Sahan Jayasuriya, author of Don't Say Please - The Oral History of Die Kreuzen.

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Step back to the early eighties in the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where underground newsletters and 'zines ignited a creative revolution. Amidst this explosion of American punk and experimental music, a band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, emerged with a groundbreaking sound. Die Kreuzen, a group that defied genre boundaries, fused punk and metal influences to create something entirely new..

Sahan Jayasuriya is a music writer and musician based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jayasuriya's interest in music began at birth, and by the early nineties, he was absorbing everything he could via FM alternative radio and MTV. Throughout his twenties, he wrote for a handful of Milwaukee-based publications like The Shepherd Express and Milwaukee Magazine, covering local and national acts, with a focus on artists' influences and creative processes. When not writing about music, Jayasuriya plays in the Midwest slowcore band Good Night & Good Morning.

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