13 brilliant bands that really should be huge, but sadly aren't
Why aren't these guys way more popular?
- Blonde Redhead: For nearly 20 years and eight albums, these New Yorkers have been inspiring a generation of dream-pop copyists with their sweet, subtle psych sounds. But mention their name to most people on the street and prepare to be met with blank stares. Coming to a small venue near you soon. Essential track: '23'
by Andrew Trendell | Photos by WENN.com/Press
You know that feeling - you're watching one of your favourite bands in one of the sweatiest toilet venues in town, staring the singer in the whites of their eyes. You're getting the same elation as one would from a stadium gig or a headline festival set but that couldn't be much further from reality.
As you find yourself slipping off the sweat-soaked walls before the band clear away their own gear because they can't afford roadies after their latest album charted somewhere in the region of the arse-end of nowhere, you pause to ask yourself the screaming question of 'why aren't they much, much bigger?'
Here's our pick of those smaller bands who, on paper and on record, seem destined to be much more popular and reach the audience the deserve, but for reasons completely unbeknownst to all logic, do not. You see, record-buying public, THIS IS WHY YOU CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.
