When a band comes into your life that is unknown to others, you savor the discovery. You get excited and want to tell as many people as you can about how this one band is ten times better than what is on the radio. However, the major labels will think about that same thing when signing a band and try to make them as big as whatever is rotating on the radio. After some time, the band is promoting the album and touring their asses off, they receive news from the label that they are being dropped due to poor record sales or lack of interest. What's next? The scenario continues. The band will keep touring; release albums under a new label(most likely an independent one); break up; or, stay home and work there. All the bands I am featuring for this blog are all from England (The Strays have members from Greece and the U.S.) and have released the best albums that have come out for the past five years since the Brit pop movement in the mid-90s. These are five of the groups that came out during that time who I believe are underrated and deserve to get their due in the bigger light. Each one of these bands share a sound that is distinctive, but, yet, add their own unique twist to it.
1.The View
2.The Coral
3.The Dead 60s
4.The Strays
5.The Courteeners
If you are interested in finding all these bands in their physical formats, go to and support your local record store!
Music like this explains why Britain just experienced multiple days of riots on the streets. So much white, middle-class angst.
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