Getty Image/Merle Cooper As a music critic, I’ve always been fascinated by “popular but not famous” bands. The type of act that manages to achieve tangible success without exactly becoming a household name. For years, these bands typically derived from genres marginalized in the mainstream — metal, prog, the jam-band scene, and so on. But in the streaming age, “popular but not famous” acts have become more common across the board, as it’s now easier to quantify popularity (streaming numbers, ticket sales, social media followers) and also harder to achieve true cultural ubiquity. In the in...

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