{"id":290,"date":"2025-09-02T22:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:57:38","slug":"tokabu-anchorages-underground-music-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"#TOKABU: Anchorage\u2019s Underground Music Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>#TOKABU is setting X on fire, and in Alaska, it\u2019s all about Anchorage\u2019s underground music and art scene. It\u2019s like a festival or art collective, but Alaskans are making it their own with local talent in Tok and Anchorage. An Anchorage DJ posted about a #TOKABU open mic night at a Midtown bar, with rappers and poets dropping bars under neon lights. Their vid of a freestyle battle, captioned \u201c#TOKABU is Alaska\u2019s soul!\u201d, has 5k views, with locals shouting out \u201cAurora MC.\u201d Some posts hint at Tok\u2019s native artist roots, though details are spotty. Alaskans dig the DIY energy, but some call it \u201chipster nonsense\u201d copying Seattle. It\u2019s uniting creatives from Fairbanks to Homer, with talk of a #TOKABU fest next summer. Embed this freestyle post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anchorage streets alive with #TOKABU art! Alaska\u2019s got soul. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gz2bNV8bYAAmyFv\">pic.twitter.com\/Gz2bNV8bYAAmyFv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AlaskaArtVibes (@AlaskaArtVibes) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlaskaArtVibes\/status\/1962862533838012416\">August 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">#TOKABU is Alaska\u2019s soul! Freestyle night in Anchorage was lit! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oALFVRhdFk2yKl8k\">pic.twitter.com\/oALFVRhdFk2yKl8k<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AnchorageBeats (@AnchorageBeats) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnchorageBeats\/status\/1962762174503280640\">August 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#TOKABU is setting X on fire, and in Alaska, it\u2019s all about Anchorage\u2019s underground music and art scene. It\u2019s like a festival or art collective, but Alaskans are making it their own with local talent in Tok and Anchorage. An Anchorage DJ posted about a #TOKABU open mic night at a Midtown bar, with rappers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[29,30,31],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-news","tag-us-news","tag-us-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}