Not having heard of a band is no cause for alarm. There are tens of thousands of bands! We all make snap judgments about what to listen to—we all choose not to listen to bands because they have a stupid name, or because the first 15 seconds of the first song on their first record isn’t 15 seconds of pure joy, or because their singer writes a pompous column in a local weekly paper. And sometimes we make mistakes—we collectively ignore someone like Nick Drake for 30 years before discovering him thanks to a music supervisor who works for an ad agency. This is no cause for shame. Music is not ruined by other people liking it.
