A collection of Velvet Underground postcards, fliers and a psychedelic handbill from the Canadian club Retinal Circus, estimated at $400 to $600, sold for $100.
Before his arrest Mr. Huang had a reception in Beijing to welcome the latest edition and was planning a colloquium to discuss its contents, which include an interview, poems and essays by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney and a collection of Chinese underground poetry written during the Cultural Revolution.
The Nubian Aquifer, the font of fabled oases in Egypt and Libya, stretches languidly across 770,000 square miles of northern Africa, a pointillist collection of underground pools of water migrating, ever so slowly, through rock and sand toward the Mediterranean Sea.
In between the heavy hitters such as Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore sit an intriguing collection of underground comics that challenged the status quo on gender, sexuality and politics of the time, demonstrating the power of the medium to be truly subversive.
The tune comes as part of Volume 1 of the 'Friction Vs.' series, a collection of collaborations championing underground-ready sonics with a back-to-basics mentality.
Heavier traffic, lengthy bus queues and a collection of flag-waving London Underground workers meant only one thing at King's Cross on Tuesday morning - another 48-hour Tube strike.
Every new gadget seems to generate a sort of hobbyist underground, a collection of people who want to disassemble its hardware and decode its software.
Most other archivists would not keep such daily-life items, known as realia, but Mr. Taylor believes that the school's downtown collection of underground literature, avant-garde art and innovative performances from the 1970's and 80's should be different.
At the other end of the spectrum are The Blue Riband by former Sloane Ranger Peter York – self-described "Marie Antoinette of the underground" – and a collection of pieces about east London put together by Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom, the editors of the high end men's fashion magazine Fantastic Man (the one time I think the set strays a bit too far from its subterranean subject).
Along with several close friends, DJ Soulscape founded 360 Sounds, a collection of DJs and artists intent on bringing underground culture to South Korea.
