Do you ever stumble across a group or artist that's so in line with what you like to listen to and well-known enough that it's inexplicable that you didn't discover them earlier? I'm feeling this way recently about Superchunk. By all rights I should've been obsessively listening to this group fifteen years ago, but they were always a total blind spot in my indie rock knowledge. I'd even brushed across a few of their songs on soundtracks or samplers ("Shallow End" from The Jerky Boys soundtrack is one example that comes to mind-- I used the L7 and Helmet songs on that CD as mixtape staples when I was 14) but nothing ever stuck. I finally got curious about them after a friend included a couple of Portastatic songs on a comp a few years ago, and the rest, as they say, is history. I'm slowly amassing their back catalog and may even end up a Superchunk completist. Still, I can't help but feel like I really missed out by not getting into them when they were really in their prime, despite loving many of their contemporaries.

Who are some of the bands that you've had this experience with and how did you finally get into them?

~Rae