Brief History of Underground Music
1985 and the beginning of No Pigeonholes
No Pigeonholes 1989 BCO Special
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On this site I will attempt to give you a personal overview of underground, independent, and home recorded music. I will not try to give a complete chronological survey of what happened during the "golden years" of cassette culture (approx. 1980-1995) but will introduce you to various characters and sounds I have been exposed to during that period. I will enlist others to give their own experiences and I will have plenty of links to investigate.
Here we will follow the course of my radio show "No Pigeonholes" which has aired home produced music since 1985.We will also spotlight certain artists, review and discuss music and the cassette culture community of the time.
There is certainly an American slant to my perspective but I will try to make up for that as time goes along and I get my European friends to chip in with their thoughts. To begin with you can check the "Outside The USA" link to the right.
This is called The Living Archive of Underground Music because it will never be complete. I will add to it as I can and welcome anything you'd like to bring to it. The updates will come as often as possible although I will try to update the "News" section monthly. I will not be constantly be bombarding your email boxes with update information. Just check back when you feel like it, there will probably be new additions often.
Whatever you call it: home tapers, indie, underground, DIY, cassette culture, you will find it here. You can begin your journey by clicking on a link to the upper left.
Of course, I will probably forget many crucial contributors to this narrow but important musical and social network but if you have any thoughts or would like to send information or even write a feature please let me know.
I welcome all perspectives. Use the contact button on upper right.
Coming soon.
before the begnning
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Brief History of Underground Music
To begin, below there is one show for each year from 1985-89.More coming later.1985 and the beginning of No Pigeonholes
No Pigeonholes 1986
No Pigeonholes 1987
No Pigeonholes 1988 Women's SpecialNo Pigeonholes 1989 BCO Special
1990's shows coming soon
other artists discuss their early experiences belowbest viewed at 1024 X 768 screen resolution
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Rotcod Zzaj, Ken Clinger, Eric Muhs
Dino DiMuro, Zan Hoffman
Hal McGee
Charles Rice Goff III
Andrew Szava-Kovats, Toshiyuki Hiraoka, Tom Furgas
Anna Homler, Robin O'Brien
Lord Litter, Bret Hart
Gen Ken Montgomery, Ralf "Gypsy" Bevis
Heather Perkins, Brian Ladd
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film about underground music "Grindstone Redux"Cassette MythosPublicationsOutside the USA
cassette culture in other countries
Artist Spotlightcassette culture.net
written and edited by Don Campau
On this site I will attempt to give you a personal overview of underground, independent, and home recorded music. I will not try to give a complete chronological survey of what happened during the "golden years" of cassette culture (approx. 1980-1995) but will introduce you to various characters and sounds I have been exposed to during that period. I will enlist others to give their own experiences and I will have plenty of links to investigate.
Here we will follow the course of my radio show "No Pigeonholes" which has aired home produced music since 1985.We will also spotlight certain artists, review and discuss music and the cassette culture community of the time.
There is certainly an American slant to my perspective but I will try to make up for that as time goes along and I get my European friends to chip in with their thoughts. To begin with you can check the "Outside The USA" link to the right.
This is called The Living Archive of Underground Music because it will never be complete. I will add to it as I can and welcome anything you'd like to bring to it. The updates will come as often as possible although I will try to update the "News" section monthly. I will not be constantly be bombarding your email boxes with update information. Just check back when you feel like it, there will probably be new additions often.
Whatever you call it: home tapers, indie, underground, DIY, cassette culture, you will find it here. You can begin your journey by clicking on a link to the upper left.
Of course, I will probably forget many crucial contributors to this narrow but important musical and social network but if you have any thoughts or would like to send information or even write a feature please let me know.
I welcome all perspectives. Use the contact button on upper right.
Mail art and unusual tape covers and packaging.
Coming soon.
blogs and radioThe Living Archive
Of Underground Music
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