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Underground
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The Underground Railroad
Carries a strong pull into television through power and Southern Europe.
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Horses
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Underground Railroad
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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8 Mile
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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The Underground Railroad
2020s
A literal railroad beneath the earth. Colson Whitehead's novel as Barry Jenkins dreamscape.
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The Underground Railroad
2010s
A literal railroad beneath the earth. Each state is a different version of American horror.
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
1960s
The Velvet Underground & Nico is a 1967 album associated with The Velvet Underground and Nico and Verve Records. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Texhnolyze
2000s
A prize fighter in an underground city. Cybernetic body horror and existential despair.
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Television 2010s
Pose
Pose is an American drama television series about New York City's ball culture, an LGBTQ subculture in the African-American and Latino communities, throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Featured characters are dancers and models, who compete for trophies and recognition in this underground culture and who support one anot...
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Music 2000s
Madvillainy
MF DOOM and Madlib create underground hip-hop's most revered album. Abstract, brief, perfect.
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Film 1990s
Fight Club
An insomniac and a soap salesman start an underground fight club. Consumerism, identity, and mayhem.
Music 1970s
Horses
Horses is the debut studio album by American musician Patti Smith, released on November 10, 1975 by Arista Records. Smith, supported by her regular backing band, recorded the album at Electric Lady Studios in September 1975, choosing former Velvet Underground member John Cale as the album's producer.
Film 2000s
8 Mile
A young white rapper battles his way through Detroit's underground scene. Curtis Hanson channels Eminem's origin story into a working-class pressure cooker.
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Music 2020s
Aethiopes
Underground hip-hop at its most literary and bleak. Preservation as producer, woods as poet.