Name ten artists YOU have never seen mentioned on ILM.

Rafael Cameron:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL9Tg9eCC7E

cleveland band, mr gnome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm_N27v38_Y

Rebel Heels. My local AAA station used to play this very Eurythmics-y one, which just crossed my mind today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEuKgzOy6RE

Zero results for 'Half Moon Silver'. WTF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdoTU_jtAE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIfrHpjQFcw

i rediscovered this track today and was surprised when google told me the only rick bain mention on ilx was in a passing mention in a brmc thread.

Not zero mentions but I heard an ace disco-era Liquid Gold song the other day and was shocked to see that they'd barely been acknowledged on the board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_NmISTmPv0

On The Ex's label Terp: Djibril Diabete and the group Lanaya with Djibril Diabete (really good stuff from Mali)

Frank Jordan (California band from early 2000s with several records)

Here's a good one: Bachi da Pietra, who had an album on the label Die Schachtel. I think Aquarius Records raved about them. Sort of like Autistic Daughters, but Italian, bluesier, and heavier.

And maybe some other stuff on that label, such as Å.

3/4hadbeeneliminated has a few mentions here and there, but not enough for how good they are.

As a Mexican/latinamerican I can easily name 50 artists from latinamerica (with songs on spotify with over 1million plays) that have never been mentioned on ILM.

Here's one for taste:

MALUMA

Top songs on spotify

Borro Cassette 276 million plays
Felices los cuatro 216 million plays
El Perdedor 128 million plays

Pretty much any mention of him on ILM has been made by yours truly.

And we're not talking about an underground artist with >1000 plays.

Another one which I can't find any mention on ILM:

Julion Alvarez

Top songs on spotify:

El amor de su vida 57M
Pongamonos de acuerdo 45M
Afuera esta lloviendo 26M

I wont do this for every artist but you can check out numbers and mentions yourself if you care to challenge me (and I'll only go for Mexican artists):

Luis Miguel, Mijares, Emmanuel, Thalia, Caifanes, Chavela Vargas, Gran Silencio, Cristian Castro, Jose jose, Alejandro Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez, Mariachi Vargas, Los Panchos, Zoe, Plastilina Mosh, Fobia, Lost Acapulco, Zurdok, Panteon Rococo, El Tri, Sr. Bikini, Santa Sabina, Austin Tv, Angeles Azules, Control Machete, Molotov, Cafe Tacuba, Kinky, Ely Guerra, Nortec Collective, Zombies in Miami, Sussie 4, Hello Seahorse, Mexican Institute of Sound, Armando Manzanero, Yuri, Aleks Syntek, Timbiriche, Tigres del Norte, Tucanes de Tijuana, Banda Machos, El Recodo, Mana, Huracanes del norte, Conjunto Primavera, Lupillo Rivera, Julio Preciado, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Antonio Aguilar, Javier Solis, Lucha Villa...

Phew should I go on?

Very impressed about Grimes first mention on ilm was on this thread 6 years ago.

It's weird to me seeing the music made in latinamerica that ilm gets excited about and the classics that get completely ignored. Take per example:

Chancha via circuito
Genre: cumbia
Top track on spotify: sueño en paraguay (buho remix) 1.7M

Angeles Azules
Genre: cumbia
Top track on spotify: Mis sentimientos 20.8M

Guess who has more mentions on ILM?

Mike Majkowski

Not that I'm trying to be Capn Obscuro. Just happened to be listening to his latest quite striking Electroacoustic type album and used the search function, but no forthcoming Blankerty Blank chequebook and pen for ILM's experts today I'm afraid!

Fink. Mega successful artist who seems to have bypassed ILM completely. A few years ago I started a thread on him which got no replies at all.

Monolink = Steffen Linck, from Berlin, who started out as an acoustic troubadour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4r8QwFOSGA

who then incorporated more and more electronics and is now more a DJ/guitar player mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1qUNZ_DP84

also made this one (that's been in Gui Boratto's liveset for a while now) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euajneZLDqc

and remixed this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13QjzAzX73M

it's not as complicated as some of the other stuff I tend to stan about here but it works, it's nice for Summer and nobody can hate this, surely?

There are only like three posts ever (and one video I posted which apparently wasn't accompanied by her name) referencing Kazumi Nikaido, which is just frankly insane. She's super amazing. She did an album with Tara Jane O'Neil! Here's that video again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=528gtqYPO6s

Not never, strictly speaking, because there's been some evocation of 'Legend of a Cowgirl' but it has always struck me as a little weird that there's basically zero discussion of Imani Coppola on the board. She's idiosyncratic and talented and has been doing it pretty consistently for two decades but I've literally never heard a peep about her irl, either.

don't think i've ever seen anyone mention 90s indie hiphop lyrical wizard j-live. he used to be my favorite rapper until i got way into common and andre3000. i would still jam his first two albums; and especially those early singles.

Ah fuck it, what do you smell like?