Underground 80s digs beneath the decade's chart surface: early alternative, post-punk, synth-pop, industrial and new wave that lived on college radio and import 12-inches. It is part of SomaFM, the San Francisco network founded by Rusty Hodge in 2000 and sustained entirely by listener donations, with no commercials. This 128k MP3 stream is a history lesson with a dancefloor pulse — the 80s as the underground actually sounded.