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Twenty years.
Six thousand stories.

What started in 2006 as a hand-coded download & news blog is now an archive of under the radar artists and their unique crafts of all kinds — served as interviews, premieres, tour reports, local scenes spotlights and more! No algorithm, no paywall. You scroll it like a zine because that's what it is.

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Artists covered
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20
Years running
Output by year
Which years were the busiest?
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Top genres
Styles and moods that grab us.
share of archive
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Geography
Passports.
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Locations
Local scenes.
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Cities aren't counted yet.
What we publish
Six ways we cover a band.
share of catalog
Artists
The names we keep coming back to.
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Labels
Independent labels, coming into focus.
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DIY tape labels, micro-presses, regional collectives — the connective tissue of underground music. Some put out 90 records we covered, some put out one. The treemap weighs them all the same way: by the share of stories they made happen here.

Labels aren't counted yet.

Numbers refresh nightly from the production database. If you find a missing band or a miscounted country, tell us — the archive is a conversation, not a leaderboard.

Source: idioteq.com / catalog · 2011–2026