It’s definitely not a unique story and sadly not a particularly rare one either. In the mid-to-late 1980s when the music world was still open to guitar-focused bands that didn’t fit a specific mold, the Midwest band The Something Brothers set out for potential stardom. They played bars, which led to clubs, which led to bigger clubs. The shared stages with the Smashing Pumpkins, the Meat Puppets and Soul Asylum and put out records on small labels. Eventually and inevitable, as the band was pretty great, major labels started showing an interest, which led to meetings and hopes for something bigger… that never really came so the band ended up calling it quits in the early 1990. Flashforward to 2015 when a major label deal is no longer the Holy Grail for struggling musicians. We have the...
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