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The Velvet Underground was an influential underground music act in the late 1960s. Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture. Underground styles lack the commercial success of popular music movements, and may involve the use of avant-garde or abrasive approaches ...
alThis is a list of notable hardcore punk bands. Hardcore punk (commonly shortened to hardcore) is an underground music genre that generally revolves around a thicker and more aggressive tone than earlier punk rock.
Founded by Steve Tupper and a then partner, Michael Fox in 1979, [1] it focused on that city's underground punk and industrial music scene. Subterranean and fellow punk/alt/underground San Francisco label Alternative Tentacles both sprang forth from the DIY punk movement in 1979, and were quite successful on college and community radio stations ...
A Reitz High School graduate is making it his mission to highlight underground bands and music. Aaron Tanner, 47, is an Evansville graphic designer who has known that he'd be in the visual arts ...
Punk Core Records brought global exposure to many underground bands, especially those from the New York area. In 2006, Punk Core Records released the compilation DVD, Pure Punk Rock. [1] The DVD was directed by punk filmmaker Lewis Smithingham, [2] and featured live performances from all of the bands on the label. [3]
How a nondescript Highland Park laundromat turned into an underground music scene for experimental bands and rollicking shows. He was called a gentrifier — until opening his laundromat to L.A.'s ...
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991 is a book by Michael Azerrad.It chronicles the careers of several underground rock bands who, while finding little or no mainstream success, were hugely influential in establishing American alternative and indie rock, mostly through nearly constant touring and records released on small, regional independent ...
But thanks to once underground bands like the Pixies, Nirvana, and Smashing Pumpkins, a new formula had provided songwriters with a template during the Alternative Era: the quiet-loud-quiet ...