Sounds From The Junkshop Bonus: Footnotes 2001
This might just be the most weirdly varied Footnotes to Sounds From The Junkshop that we've done to date. If you look back at the history books then they'll tell you that 2001 was basically the year that the Strokes completely changed the indie landscape for better or worse (you can probably guess which side I'm on in that argument) while on the metal side of things, nu-metal was (thankfully) now starting to die off although its equally ugly half brother frat-punk was still very much in the ascendant. So where does that leave the stuff on the margins then? Well, even though the list below contains a real mish-mash of groups from desperately unlucky old-school indie types through spiky metallers and some bands who were just wonderfully flat-out weird, all of them had one thing in common, namely that they were basically swimming upstream from the word go trying to do something that wasn't in vogue at the time. Except that while, as we've discussed on the 1999-2000 F...