ITT: Artists that are on the borderline of being mainstream and unknown to mass public.
>>66064555
Death Grips is not mainstream
They really aren't anywhere near mainstream but they aren't underground either. They are internet popular
>>66064594
>on the borderline
You fucking retard. Learn to read idiot.
nice trips, but is this a joke? I can't picture anyone outside of art school ever listening to death grips they will never mainstream.
>>66064630
>>66064610
>>66064594
>>66064611
you're the retard here desu
>>66064594
>>66064610
>>66064630
>t.secret club
>>66064650
>>66065058
no normies even know of them and I wouldn't say they will be played on a radio ever
>>66064630
Yeah, cuz /mu/ is filled with art school kids.
I've seen at least four non-4chan browsing friends post about them on facebook.
>>66065105
Get got played on the radio?
Mac Demarco and Yung Lean
Everyone on the internet knows them including tumblr normies but ask joe schmo on the street about them and they'd say ''who''
>>66065170
Who? and who?
>>66065170
Who?
>>66064610
>popular on the internet
>guess what's also popular these days?
>the internet
>>66065404
>anyone who has used the internet has seen everything on the internet
>>66065170
>Yung Lean
lol
all my normie friends like death grips, they aren't obscure
Tory Lanez
Deafheaven is playing Eaux Claire pretty soon and I saw this album cover in some Walmart ad for a music player.
Mac motherfucking DeMarco
Not sure how I would feel about it if he became more known to the public, but I think it'd make him concentrate on writing and recording even better shit
>>66064594
not yet
>>66065170
Mac I can get, I heard him playing in a restaurant in the hipster neighborhood where I live.
As for Young Lean. Literally who?
Realistically, Tame Impala isn't totally mainstream yet.
Mastodon
>>66066670
>Yung Lean
swedish meme rapper, has millions of views on all his songs and sells out concerts around the world
>>66067278
>sells out concerts around the world
Really? I don't believe that.
>>66066738
Pretty sure Mastodon are in the mainstream. I mean they were nominated for a Grammy and Brann even filled on drums for one of those late night shows
He might be mainstream, but his music isnt
>>66067310
Chek out his fanpages on fb. There was one recntly in Montreal and I couldn't get tickets.
Nujabes
MBV
Mac DeMarco
Kurt Vile
>>66067380
>Every Kanye fan ever
>>66067310
he had two big tours in the us and many shows sold out. he's even bigger in europe/brazil and he's done shows in australia and japan
Grimes
Galaxie 500
Echo and the Bunnymen
FKA Twigs
Autchre
NMH
>>66067615
>Echo and the Bunnymen
>not mainstream since the 80's
I think Tyler, The Creator is a good example of this.
>>66067642
You ask any Joe Schmo or Molly Crolly on the street who they are they wouldn't have a clue.
>>66067753
Good point
>>66067681
Literally everyone at my school knows them. I always see people wearing his garbage and I see odd future merch everywhere. He's mainstream as fuck.
>>66067848
oh. maybe its a location thing, lol. when people ask me what im listening to in my earbuds I tell them his name and they say "who the fuck?" so, idk lol.
>>66064555
>>66064610
>>66065170
I can verify all of these. Some of the people I go to university with who are faintly acquainted with the internet are all familiar with these ones.
James Ferraro is rising in the indie circles.
>>66067310
What's baffling is how terrible the music is. He's like an instagram filter. Makes a turf look ansel Adams n shit.
>>66067972
Turd
Lol autocricket
They're no way near mainstream. Even my music friends haven't heard of them.
I showed a friend once and he basically got scared as fuck and told me he hated it and to turn it off immediately.
>>66067921
Lol fuck no. I've met one guy who's heard of him and he was a stoner burnout NEET. Pretty sure he was a /mu/tant.
>>66067999
Your friends are faggots.
Dude. I'm a better friend.
>>66066700
They're getting there.
>>66067999
>I showed a friend once and he basically got scared as fuck and told me he hated it and to turn it off immediately.
How is this friend around the average black person?
>>66068110
Dunno. He was schizophrenic though.
>>66066700
what how
>>66064555
it bothers me that someone bothered waterstamping this photo and it's pretty shit
>>66067999
i have a friend that knows death grips but that's probably because he goes on pitchfork
>>66068119
Alright, that sounds about right.
I'M IN YOO AREAA
>>66068137
I showed a friend "Spikes" the other night which is fairly accessible for Death Grips and he seemed to love it. He was bumping to it hard.
>>66068127
>Andy's face
>>66064594
What do you expect
They will never be as mainstream as say Justin Bieber
>>66068246
Justin isn't even that populor tho.
>>66068272
what do you mean not popular like every single teen chick listens to Justin Beiber. Just because you don't like someone doesn't mean they are unpopular
>>66068374
Who?
Danny Brown, RTJ, Flatbush Zombies
>>66068162
Would spikes be a great song to introduce somebody to death grips?
>>66065170
Mac is college popular, which sometimes breaks into mainstream popularity.
The random guy in a small town will almost never know him, but a random guy in NYC or LA has a good chance of knowing him, and a kid on a college campus has an even better chance.
Yung Lean is basically in a similar state as Lil B, only much less popular. People will know him, but as a joke, not really as an actual artist people listen to.
>>66067889
Ah, I see. I assumed he was popular everywhere.
Are The Growlers popular outside of SoCal?
>>66068894
Here in Portland they have a bit of a following but we always hop on trendy Cali bands. They were bigger a couple years ago I think.
>>66065159
I'm pretty sure you're just retarded and dont understand what he means
Coil
Can
Xiu Xiu
mbv
>>66068992
Well. I just proved him wrong.
No Down syndrome allowed here.
>>66068894
who? (massachusetts here)
>>66069143
Me too :^))
how much time do you have to spend on /mu/ to even entertain the thought for one second that death grips is mainstream
>>66069478
Read the thread again.
Suffy
>>66064594
>>66064610
>>66064630
Except you can walk into literally any music store and buy their music. I also knew kids back in high school circa TMS era that were listening to them.
>>66068374
I know just as many chicks who say they hate Justin Bieber as I do chicks who I know listen to him.
>>66070306
I live near a huge Rasputins and their section usually has one cd tops. I go every weekend with a friend too, so it's not like I went on an off day or something.
>>66065170
Mac Demarco arguably fits
>>66066700
this is true, i forgot how close they've come to the general mainstream
>>66069010
worst post itt
Animal Collective
>>66070716
I live in bumfuck NH and there is definitely more than one CD/Vinyl in most of the music shops I go to. The only shops that don't have them are these local stores that don't sell that sell mostly used records.
>>66070802
That's weird, I'm from the Bay Area. You'd think there'd be more of them in this shop, it's the biggest one on this side of the Bay too.
most contemporary artists who're /mu/core
>>66067380
Thats why he has crazy album sales, right?
Grimes is now a sell out.
>>66067615
Autechre? lol
>>66065915
Aesop Rock
>>66072610
He even has it shown in multiple videos as a wallpaper on his desktop
>>66072497
desu, it's sort of true
>>66072281
Not if you're Grimes.
>>66070661
If they hate him, then they know of him. Mainstream doesn't necessarily well loved, just well known.
>>66064610
>implying i dont listen to the radio just to hear Hot Head
>>66064555
Just about anyone nearing their death i'd say.
>>66072610
That guy is pretty cool, I think he just panders his videos to children.
>>66064555
They're not even close to mainstream. I go to a private music college, and pretty much none of the students or teachers know who Ghost (BC) are.
>>66064555
>everyone saying Death Grips aren't borderline
I see relatively normalfag people post about them on fb. I can bring them up to my friends who really listen to music (any genre) and they'll know who I mean, though they might not like them. They're definitely getting there. Wait til some normies catch on to bangers like Get Got or w/e and they become the next Odd Future
I don't necessarily believe that'll happen but I'm not ruling it out, I could definitely see it
Grandaddy
>something pretty bad happened, we lost a friend
