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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 9
Description: It had taken a few years, but by the middle 1980s, the underground music scene in north America had reached some kind of a tipping point...enough people had discovered punk, new wave and all the sub-genres associated with both so that things started to become really interesting...Campus radio stations began to have more clout...the more support they gave to these non-mainstream bands, the more they were appreciated and the more power they wielded...And as these stations began to communicate with each other through publications and charts and conventions, their influence and...