Underground music in 2017
Does the underground still exist in a world where everything is visible online? We go in search
From bush doof to clowncore: your favourite underground music scenes
In the final instalment of our underground music series, readers share the scenes that inspire them – whether it’s radical brass bands, queer punk or doom-metal Mormons in Salt Lake City
Run the code: is algorave the future of dance music? – video
Run the code: is algorave the future of dance music?
'People are taking safer choices': six alternative artists on today's musical underground
Thurston Moore, The Black Madonna and other underground musicians discuss how the scene continues to mutate – and why quantum physics is where today’s avant garde truly resides
'We could build something revolutionary': how tech set underground music free
YouTube, social media and even Bitcoin are allowing musicians to reject major labels and go it alone – but the industry is fighting back. Can artists use technology to stay truly independent?
Free improvisation: still the ultimate in underground music?
Free improvisation: still the ultimate in underground music?
'Only 17th-century industrial bluegrass will do': your favourite weird records
Italian prog, psychedelic doom from Coventry, one-second punk songs... we asked for your most obscure records, and you didn’t disappoint
Pornogrind and flying intestines: my journey into the labyrinth of underground metal
They have names like Live Burial and Thus Defiled and go to extreme lengths not to get big – or even heard. Our writer enters a place where everyone knows the difference between ‘depressive black metal’ and ‘depressive suicidal black metal’
Unsound and Semibreve: the festivals that dream a better world in sound
Two festivals in Poland and Portugal suggest utopian futures by exploring the boundaries of music and noise – even as they freak out small children
'There are a lot of weird people around here': how the north stayed underground
From turbo-charged Eurodance in Newcastle to Pennine psychedelia and grime in Hull, the north of England keeps underground scenes thriving outside the glare of the mainstream. Welcome to five of the strangest
From Arsedestroyer to Zoogz Rift: 50 underground albums you've never heard of
Sexed-up Canadian synthpop, Japanese junglism, ritualistic Finnish bear-hunting music … our writers pick treasures from the darkest corners of their record collections
No alternative: how brands bought out underground music
Timberland hosts rap gigs. Princess Nokia makes films for Maybelline. And Red Bull is the new school of rock. Have brand partnerships destroyed counterculture? Or are they all that’s keeping it alive?
Where is the musical underground in 2017?
In the coming weeks, the Guardian is embarking on a survey of the underground in music – asking if it still exists in a world where everything is visible online, and if so, where
