Let's say right now the group that's really hyped is Fiery Furnaces, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, The Streets... I don't know, you guys can add others that are all on the lists.
Before that it was M83, Sufjan Stevens, Rapture, Liars...
Before that it was... the garage rockers? White Stripes, Strokes, etc. etc.
Let's see how far back we can go.
― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)
the only one of those I can answer right off is that my brother had the first major piece on the White Stripes in the world. (LA Weekly LAWeekly, Dec. 22-28, 2000).
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)
the kind of hype we're talking about sort of changed with the neo-garage thing. the strokes and the white stripes and the whoevers made an impact in mainstream music mags that a lot of "indie" music hadn't made before. now, the hyped "indie" bands get a lot more attention. i think before the garage explosion the notion of underground hype was a bit different.
― rob mackey (mackey), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)
big, not bag. ugh. maybe it was bag too, though.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)
I dunno, it's his claim - his piece was a big interview/feature thing. See it here:
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/05/music-babcock.php. He calls it "The first signficant feature/interview on The White Stripes in any major publication in the entire world"
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)
Broken Social Scene, Wolf Eyes, Les Savy Fav, The Darkness (for a split second), Trail of Dead, Cat Power, Godspeed!, Sigur Ros, Wilco, Radiohead, Built to Spill, Neutral Milk Hotel, DJ Shadow, Olivia Tremor Control, Archers of Loaf, Yo La Tengo, Bjork, Wu-Tang, Guided by Voices, Uncle Tupelo, Sebadoh, Portishead, Palace, Tortoise, Red Red Meat, Stereolab, Boredoms, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, De La Soul, Royal Trux, Beastie Boys, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Run-DMC, Husker Du, U2, Replacements, REM. Punk blah blah blah.
I am missing many surely and have them out of chronological order I'm guessing, but I'd say something like that, but more fleshed out.
― Nanker Phelge, Friday, 7 January 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)