Why Do I Hate When People Get Famous?

There are two things that I fully admit to being:

1. Music Nerd
2. Elitist

And unfortunately, those are being simultaneously tested as one of my Tier-2 Bands became a featured video on 'the YouTubez.'

Two Gallants is a folk rock duo from San Francisco which I can readily describe as "Like Bob Dylan, but Angrier." A heady blend of raspy vocals, self-loathing, and empty bottles of Pinot Noir, they aren't a band I'd recommend going to see after you've driven six hours, as I have in the past. (But that concert at Bimbo's just before New Year's was totally fucking worth it.) Absolutely incredible and lulling. Best to listen to when stoned, although I can't personally vouch for that one. I can only assume.

Now that they're popular can I still like them? I don't know.

I'll just take a page out of their lyrics: steady rollin', and I keep goin'...

To understand my ranking: there is only one tier-1 band, and that is Muse.