88 Underground | OPEN COLLAB | Celebrating 500+ of you
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✦ M I L E S T O N E ✦
5 0 0 + F O L L O W E R S
We hit 500. That's not nothing — that's everything.
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▸ ▸ ▸ N O W B R O A D C A S T I N G ◂ ◂ ◂
8 8 U N D E R G R O U N D
88.0 FM · Hollow Ridge · Open Collab
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Nobody famous is from Hollow Ridge.
That never stopped anyone from making noise.
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W H A T I S T H I S ?
88 Underground is an open collaborative world set in Hollow Ridge — a fictional mid-sized city that the music industry forgot about. Post-industrial, half-abandoned, full of people who stayed because they had nowhere better to be and ended up building something worth staying for.
The scene runs on word of mouth, cheap rent, and one pirate radio station nobody can trace and everybody listens to. 88 Underground. 88.0 FM. Get played on it and the whole city knows your name by morning. Get ignored — and you might as well not exist.
There are no genre rules. No hierarchy. No gatekeeping. The underground takes everyone — as long as you're ready to make some noise.
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T H E W O R L D
Hollow Ridge is the kind of city that looks like it's dying but sounds like it's alive. The skyline is half-functional, half-abandoned. There's a river nobody swims in. The good neighborhoods and the bad ones share the same bus lines.
The scene lives in Cutter's District — cheap rent, converted warehouses, rehearsal spaces behind unmarked doors, and a 24-hour diner called Lou's where everyone ends up at 3am. Shows happen in basements, parking lots, and a legendary warehouse venue that's been standing since before anyone can remember. They just call it The Wound.
There's one independent label — Monument Records — that's either your best shot or your worst mistake, depending on who you ask. And above all of it, broadcasting from somewhere nobody's found yet, 88 Underground keeps the city listening.
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W H A T C A N Y O U C R E A T E ?
✦ R O L E S A V A I L A B L E
◆ Full bands — bring your whole lineup or build it one member at a time
◆ Solo artists — the ones who wor