Coyne explores American suburban youths' engagement with the underground, a discovery of urban culture from the periphery. Banal and classic American suburbanisms become a language for the exploration and synthesis of a variety of cultural threads. The label draws upon Coyne’s own background growing up in a small American town with five older brothers. From this anti-urban, masculine world, Coyne negotiates the mystery of suburban youth culture within the larger cultural context of American life.