Ever heard of…..ZAPPLE RECORDS?
26th May 2021
The next instalment in our series investigating overlooked or obscured figures in musical and subcultural history takes a look at Zapple Records, a short-lived label
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It charts the evolution of Subcultures from their emergence in the 60’s and 70’s to a more inclusive and equitable movement today. The underground and subcultures are never fixed in one place or time. They have strong and meaningful reference points but are always evolving.
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HOLIDAY GHOSTS on their new album ‘North Street Air’
24th May 2021
Holiday Ghosts are back with a new LP ‘North Street Air’; taking its title from their environment, their third album is a documentation of Katja
Bootlicking KAPUTT’s new EP “Movement Now/Another War Talk”
14th May 2021
Bootlickers by name, Bootlickers by nature: Underground’s new radio show is all about applauding and advocating creativity; exciting, emerging and experimental. Our second bootlicking guests
Top 8 GOTH VENUES: The U.K.’s past and present most iconic goth clubs and venues
12th May 2021
Home to the original gothic novelists Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker and later gothic rock spawning from punk in the late 1970s (for
Experiments in Sisterhood: The audio-visual universe of WATERBABY
7th May 2021
The Kilpatrick sisters are as enchantingly ethereal as their namesake sprite suggests, yet an ethos of hard graft lies beneath their imagery of rippling projections
The Story Of Subculture: NEW ROMANTICS
5th May 2021
As punk imploded under the weight of its own anger and grit, the ‘passionate bright young things’ (See Aladdin Sane) of the UK needed a
ROXY GIRLS on their buoyant new release
4th May 2021
A mere few months on from their jagged EP, ‘The Effect of Tomorrow’ and the lads of Roxy Girls are back with another rampaging release.
Bootlicking GROUP THERAPY’s 54-track-long Charity Compilation
29th April 2021
Bootlickers by name, Bootlickers by nature: Underground’s new radio show is all about applauding and advocating creativity; exciting, emerging and experimental. Established as a reaction
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Born & Bred Festival ’16
2nd June 2016
East London is the scene to be seen at this summer, as Rinse FM and Found Series are back at it again with the Born
INTO THE DIRT LAUNCH 28th JULY
3rd June 2016
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END OF THE CENTURY – THE RAMONES
6th June 2016
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The Membranes
8th June 2016
1977- two lads from Blackpool Sixth Form College and neighbours by the names of John Robb and Mark Tilton decided to create a band and
Stomping Grounds – Photography by Dick Scott-Stewart
9th June 2016
Voyeurism, emotion, glamour, London’s social scenes of the 70’s and 80’s … these are just some of the elements that make up the donation of
Save Our Night Clubs
14th June 2016
The Nightclubs of the UK have been closing an alarming rate over the last ten years The Clubs are so often cast as the font
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