Silversun Pickups
When a new band is likened to a popular band from the past, it can help them as much as it can hurt them. Plenty of people want to hear new music that sounds like the music they already love. Camera Obscura, for instance, have benefited from their inescapable comparisons to Belle and Sebastian; after carrying that burden with grace for three albums, Camera Obscura actually outgrew it on their fourth. The Silversun Pickups, on the other hand, are two albums in and are still struggling with their Smashing Pumpkins parallels — besides sounding similar, they bear the same initials and feature a female bassist. Silversun Pickups arrived at a time when industry insiders were predicting a “1990s rock revival,” and so the comparison was pretty much... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Alternative/Indie
- City Of Origin:
- Los Angeles, ,California United States
- Formed Date:
- 2005
