A place to discuss music that never hit the mainstream, that is not currently crossing over into pop. For both music listeners and musicians who like to discover and talk about obscure genres, songs and artists.

All genres of non mainstream music including but not limited to music from non-western cultures, music of the past, experimental, avant-garde, musique concrète, Stockhausen, Cage, electroacoustic, IDM, noise, drum and bass, dub, library, soundtracks, psych, folk, UK garage, 2step, future garage, afrobeat, post rock, outsider, alternative, punk, metal, new wave, no wave, chiptunes, rare groove, acid jazz, boogie, funk, bass music, acid, breaks, electronic, ambient, dark ambient, new age, prepared piano, microtonal, trip hop, illbient, lowercase, vaporwave, lofi, minimal techno, shoegaze, neo soul, etc.