that stage where you think they aren't popular anymore but are actually way more popular than they were when they had "buzz"

Atmosphere otm

oh yeah totally

what the fuck happened here

Aerosmith

built to spill, circa mid-2000s. maybe still, if they ever put out any records.

h8 311 SO MUCH, "amber is the color of your energy" stopped me from listening to the radio for like five years.

but lol i've seen mike doughty twice in the last six or so years, he always sells out the little venue here in town. he sounds great live!

also TMBG has a new album coming out soonish, and their single got posted to Pitchfork with like, maybe a sentence of description. it felt really begrudging.

yeah geeky '90s alt in general is fertile for this thread. i still check for new TMBG even if it's not that good, loved Soul Coughing but am not real into the Doughty solo stuff.

is there still a big touring market for bands like the Spin Doctors & Blues Traveler, who were sort of incidental players in the jamrock community, but also briefly embraced by the mainstream? Like, did they basically return from whence they came, or were they able to parlay their brief popularity into a larger and enduring fanbase?

Jamrock folks seem pretty loyal & into long-term commitment, from what I can tell.

LCD Soundsystem

well when it takes you a fortnight to stand up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEdxCn6dYsM

is there still a big touring market for bands like the Spin Doctors & Blues Traveler, who were sort of incidental players in the jamrock community, but also briefly embraced by the mainstream? Like, did they basically return from whence they came, or were they able to parlay their brief popularity into a larger and enduring fanbase?

Jamrock folks seem pretty loyal & into long-term commitment, from what I can tell.

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Blues Traveler weren't incidental, they started HORDE and headlined it for several years! they still, like, play Red Rocks, but i think their hardcore fanbase is kind of negligible, their last album (which features a SPOKEN WORD INTERLUDE BY BRUCE WILLIS apparently) didn't even chart.

6) avoid confrontation and shock

seems like this could be amended to

6) avoid confrontation and shock
6.a) alternatively, strongly advocate for cheeba

they started HORDE and headlined it for several years! - yeah, but would they have headlined it if they didn't start it? I guess by "incidental," I meant "second-tier" (i.e. not Phish or the Dead).

SPOKEN WORD INTERLUDE BY BRUCE WILLIS - o dear o dear

Spin Doctors are currently touring w/Rick Springfield.

iirc when Horde started it was about sub-Phish jambands pooling their resources, but at the tour's peak Blues Traveler had that one really huge album and were generally one of the 2 biggest acts on the tour every year

The Eels

i feel like the strokes might fit in here

I keep expecting Hot Chip to drop off the spectrum, but they never seem to.

Placebo went on a series of arena-sized concerts across Europe, in October–December 2009. That leg of the tour culminated in a concert in London's O2 Arena which was Placebo's largest gig ever in the United Kingdom.

^ didn't even realise Placebo were still going

h8 311 SO MUCH, "amber is the color of your energy" stopped me from listening to the radio for like five years. (...)

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Well, I hadn't heard about this song, but I just googled the lyrics and creased up.

Placebo are HUGE in europe, especially in france. someone i know at their label told me that it seemed like about half of the O2 audience were french.

I don't know anything about 311 but is that some kind of intentional or even unintentional misquote from PiL's "Rise" ("Anger is an energy")?

xp

Nice to be massive in some country other than your own. Go over, get attention, then come home and chill out.

A bit like being hannah Montana, for real!

xp I don't know, but now you are making it more awesome!

There was a 'not-soundtrack' album for the Alice in wonderland film, so lots of songs featuring references to Alice.

There's not so many Amber songs, One by The Residents but it sounds like she'd died in that one, so no.

Deftones in the UK

Placebo is an excellent one

Nada Surf?

Transistor
04-20-2008

as corny as it may sound, this is for real - he felt the feeling 311 is conveying when he saw me. he stole my number because he sensed an amber aura. this song came to his mind. i didn't know who he was when he texted, but for some bizarre reason i went with it. we talked on the phone for a month before we saw each other again - he remembered what i looked like, but i couldn't remember him! anyway, he told me he'd wanted to sing me a song that reminded him of me weeks before the date. when he did, i was blown away. the sound fit the night perfectly - the peaceful vibe of chilling with him and the exciting overtones of finding someone i totally clicked with was captured by the song - and the idea that he thought this way about me still thrills me. as we're in our 6th month of a long distance relationship and i'm still fighting impulses to regain my independence, even though he's so awesome, "amber" still resonates with me, for reasons beyond its great vibe.

o_O

Wow @ Placebo.

The Bluetones pottered on for years and years and may still be going, but they're not big enough to really fit in this equation.

Placebo are HUGE in europe, especially in france.

yep. this makes sense now.

The Eels

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yeah know a dude from mpls that is Eels lighting tech, they do pretty huge tours overseas

what about lambchop are they still huge in the u.k. like the eels. they should all tour with the fun lovin' criminals. bands the yanks forgot tour.

nope not on the same level as eels but they do okay.

Almost every artist featured in The O.C. soundtracks (Death Cab, Modest Mouse, Imogen Heap, Ryan Adams)... they had a certain second rise in popularity post-oc when in reality the days of glory seemed long gone.

'days of glory'

yeah it was all downhill for those guys after 2004, so sad, what a waste of talent

The Shins

are they still putting out records??

the lead singer put out that dangermouse collab but that's all i've heard lately?

oh god that song is so dull

loooool

guys, every band that you and everyone in your office know the name of can sell out 30 800 seat clubs on a tour regardless of their level of quality or how recent they had an album released.

nope.

if that were only true ... *sigh*

name the band you're thinking of.
cuz winger can do it.

nb: i mean anyone who had at least one major radio single

forks, i work for a contemporary classical music non-profit.

there should be an "office full of hipsters/subculturists" caveat

like, I'm sure that if I started a company with my high school friends, we could spend hours talking about Grotus and Savage Aural Hotbed and everyone would know who they were, but they are not filling 30 800 seat venues across the country