You will find a lot of unknowns here, old and new.

Progressive Rock Ultimate Discography ... with MP3 and reviews

Also keep an eye out for Boo Boo & The Bear Traps. ;)

And again

Robin Trower is a pretty unknown blues/rock guitarist. (unless you are into it)
Robert Cray " " "
Depeche Mode
Rayon Belchere
Moody Blues (maybe)

...and Emerson,Lake, and Palmer

Just do an article on Sound Devastation Records :D

Its not that people don't know they exist, they just don't want to acknowledge that they exist. A lot of people know who they are, its just that most people dispise them.

In fact, when people think prog, the first band that usually comes to mind aside from Yes is ELP, in fact ELP were huge in the 70s, they sold a lot of records, Tarkus even made it to #1 on the UK charts. If you have a dad, odds are he owned an ELP record at some point in his life.

Its just that now most music critics and people in the punk and indie scene dispise prog in virtually the same way art critics, impressionists and modernists dispised the academic art movement of the 19th century, to the extent that they even ignored its existance completely in art history textbooks.

Death Cab for Cutie
Fiona Apple
Sarah McLachlan
Rasputina
Tori Amos

How in the hell is Fiona Apple obscure?

Shes a 4x platinum artist for fecks sake.

I have never heard of her. Has that got anything to do with me living in the UK?