Not well known artists
 

For my school magazine, I'm writing an article about artists usually unknown to most people. For this I need some information from a variety of sources so, please reply telling me which of the artists on this list you know/have heard of.

Emiliana Torrini
Alisha's Attic
Of Montreal
Death Cab for Cutie
Fiona Apple
Sarah McLachlan
Jarvis ****er
Half Man Half Biscuit
Rasputina
Tori Amos

Thank you very much for your help!
And sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum.

Of Montreal
Death Cab for Cutie
Fiona Apple
Sarah McLachlan
Jarvis ****er
Tori Amos

are the ones i have heard of or know

Emiliana Torrini
Death Cab for Cutie
Fiona Apple
Sarah McLachlan
Rasputina
Tori Amos

That's a pretty weak list if you're going for unknowns.

All Except the first one.

Same

I've heard all of those but I don't know if a music forum is really the best place to have an accurate gauge on how popular music is. I'd say a lot of people have heard of Death Cab For Cutie, Fiona Apple and Tori Amos.

She did Gollum's song(the finale) in the LotR:Return of the King. I only recently found that out. I first heard her when she did a cover of Sinatra's "If you go away" for the movie Pumpkin starring Christina Ricci. She's one of those people that has quite a few songs out there(mostly movies) but nobody really knows who she is.

all of them, and i'm pretty sure that Of Montreal and Tori Amos are pretty mainstream.



just sayin'

Again.

You should try doing bands like Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia..., Midnight Movies, The Pink Mountaintops, and Codeine instead of those that you're doing.

I know of all of those except Alisha's Attic.

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?