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Fallen Through the Cracks: Chilliwack to Clouddead

The noisiest artists below are the ones that may well make for the best background music, at least if you've been taking lots of antihistamines due to flu season. The most comical artists below make Latin music, not that Latin radio will ever be brave enough to admit it. Plus: Two one-hit-wonder rock bands who had very long careers! What'll they think of next?

Fallen Through the Cracks: The Chambers Brothers to Chicken Shack

All of the artists in this post -- late '60s acid-boogie outfits, biz-boosted '80s cheeseballs, early '00s garage-rock dresser-uppers -- have names that start with "Ch." Strangely, so do I. Savor the moment now, for it may never happen again.

Fallen Through the Cracks: Caravan to Chain Gang

A number of the artists unearthed below remind me that, long before I lived here, New York City was apparently a really exciting place to hear music. And some of the other artists unearthed below remind me that other places could be pretty cool too sometimes.

Fallen Through the Cracks: the Business to Captain Sky

Two house music acts, two '70s sludge-metal bands, three captains, some people who wish they were the Spice Girls and Springsteen, and more. When you're asking for musical artists whose 15 minutes of fame ran out a long time ago, isn't that enough?

Fallen Through the Cracks: the Buggles to Warren Burt

This latest attempt at memory jogging and grave digging concentrates more than usual on mad scientists and entomologists, and the bugged-out music they make. Enjoy!

Fallen Through the Cracks: B-Rock & the Bizz to Bucks Fizz

by Chuck Eddy

Nine more acts you've managed to successfully erase from your memory banks until now: four from the post-disco dancefloor, then four from the C&W chicken coop, then some big British pop stars that Americans never heard of. Most common last name: Brown.

Fallen Through the Cracks: Bram Tchaikovsky to Britny Fox

by Chuck Eddy

In this very special "Bands Starting With 'Br'" edition of "Fallen Through the Cracks," new wave rules! As do hippie folksters, ethnomusicological jazzsters, lesbian disco ladies, and guys from Maryland who rap and rock like The Wire never happened.

Fallen Through the Cracks: Arthur Blythe to Brain Surgeons

by Chuck Eddy

In this latest rundown of unjustly neglected talents, you'll find Californians who wish they were New Yorkers, New Yorkers who wish they were British, and Britishers who wish they were American pioneers capable of engaging in hand-to-hand combat with grizzly bears. Wishful thinking, in all cases, but please don't hold that against them.

Fallen Through the Cracks: Black Angel to Blueprint

by Chuck Eddy

Below you'll find six acts you may not be familiar with whose names start with "Black," and only one act whose name starts with "Blue." Weird! Plus two acts with offensively pornographic lyrics. And none of the above played on Black Sabbath and Blue Öyster Cult's legendary Black & Blue Tour. (Or with the Backstreet Boys' either, for that matter.)

Fallen Through the Cracks: Be Bop Deluxe to Pete Berwick

by Chuck Eddy

This column's collection of unjustly forgotten music includes country from Russia, mambo from Germany, atmospheric extreme metal from Sweden, doo-wop from the Bronx, free jazz from Syracuse ... and all sorts of stuff from jolly old England.