Still, Mitchell’s descriptions of what it meant to be underground might as usefully have been applied to music as anything else: “The mass media are too expensive for the underground artist. Keep up to date with this series Sign up to the sleevenotes emailBut in 2017, the idea of what constitutes underground music is more confused. The old markers that you might reasonably use to denote whether music is “underground” or not – is it on TV? In this confused landscape, beneath the all-seeing eye of the internet, can the underground even be said to exist anymore? In the coming weeks, we’re going to run a series of articles examining what, if anything, it means to be an underground artist in 2017.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2017 11:15 UTC