Dumb is a local high school garage band, who plays in front of their school to try and build a fan base. It is a group of people who don't mesh well together in real life, but all share a great love for rock music. 
Piper's USS Immoveable. Her 1987 chevy caprice classic brougham is what gets her everywhere. It sucks gas, bound to breakdown at any moment, and drives her crazy, yet she still can't imagine not having it.
Piper and her younger sister Grace are both deaf, and with their family not having much money, getting the most up to date equipment for the both of them is impossible. Her parents decided to spend Piper's college fund on getting a Cochlear implant for her little sister, which has caused a lot of family tension. 
Dumb wants a gig, and Piper is working her butt off to get them one. She finally gets them a oppurtunity to record with man named Baz. Thier first recording does not go very well, but eventually they can begin to pull together. 
When the band first plays together and finishes their first recording studio it does not go very well, and they are all down in morale. They need to pull everything together and need to do it fast in order to pull a gig together.
Piper manages to land Dumb's fist gig on a soft rock radio channel. It is not what they normally play, but it is a paying gig, so they try it out. It does not go great and Kallie begins to appear as the band's "face" bringing new tension.
Piper and her little brother Finn are complete opposites. Piper is a straight A student and overacheiver where as Finn always gets in trouble and doesn't care about school. As the band evolves and Finn begins to help out they develop a bond that makes them inseperable. 
Someone is emailing Piper random musicians from a screen name of ZARKINFIB who sends her on a chase to Kurt Cobain's house to experience a bit about his life and how he grew up. 
Jimi Hendrix is another famous musician who ZARKINFIB sends Piper on a mission to find out more about. She begins to realize more about the love for music they had, and it builds emotionally in her. It makes her a greater musician and she begins to discover her own inner rock star. 
Dumb is finally coming together. Their sound has greatly improved and thier gigs getting bigger and better. Dumb is no longer the small garage band who played on the front steps of thier high school just to get their sound across. They came a long way, suffered through a lot, but all their work and dedication payed off in the end.
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