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Popularity is a marketing thing, not a talent thing.
There are tons of talented "rock" bands that are not popular at all but you'll find them if you listen to college radio and get music from sources other than television, commercial radio and pablum magazines like Rolling Stone. Find venues and dyi spots that present bands that actually go out on a limb with their creativity.
Or maybe you live in a small town in which case you're probably fucked for good live music.
Neptune (
http://www.misterrecords.com/neptune/) comes to mind right now because they are playing a show here soon. Most of their instruments are homemade. Their guitars have these metal necks that look and sound sick as fuck. They seemlessly combine these trippy and grating noise sections with rocking fucking rhythmic dirges. They're really tight musicians and have obviously written all of their noise parts which might otherwise sound like improv. My only major problem with the band is that the singer's voice can get really annoying at times. I definitely prefer the band when they are just doing instrumental stuff.
And thats just one group.
And no, I don't work for them or anything.
I hope I'm not the only one in this thread that listens to music that isn't just a slick commercial product designed for optimum market penetration. Musicfags unite.
Songs on commercial radio are 3:30 long ads for a disgustingly overpriced compact disc that one buys as a fashion accessory.
Well, then there's the the classic rock stations which are an entirely different demo.