Jul 2011 12
Interesting read posted on NPR today. KC too has had a long series of web forums which helped drive underground culture. Wether it be Syquil, kansascitynightlife, syde-sho, kcraves, or countless others..
How The Internet Transformed The American Rave Scene
Rave was America’s last great outlaw musical subculture: created by kids, for kids, designed to be impenetrable to adults. American rave formed its own mutant funhouse approach to existing looks, sounds and ideologies. In the early-to-mid-1990s, it was driven not by stars but a sudden collective sense that, as the Milwaukee rave zine Massive put it in every issue above the masthead, “The underground is massive.”
