Feature: Highly Influential Artists with Incredibly Sparse Catalogs

Leaving behind a legacy is a tricky thing. Plenty of bands have risen to legendary status by releasing an insane amount of great music in very short periods of time. I've alway been sort of perplexed by how many albums The Beatles delivered throughout their relatively short existence. And then there are bands that have released every single thought that comes to mind, such as Sonic Youth and Guided By Voices, whose legacies are attributed to their output being so ridiculously abundant. But every now and then a band releases one or two albums and then disappears, only to watch their legacy grow far beyond what some of their more prolific peers could ever have achieved.

So here is a list of seven bands who have become extremely influential despite having a very small body of work. My only criteria for choosing artists for this were that they only released less than three studio albums and have had a remarkable influence on music that followed them.

CONFIRMED: The Stone Roses Reuniting In 2012 For UK Shows and World Tour

Resurrected. What a heartwarming-ass photo.

Well there we have it. After at least a couple thousand false starts and then a glimmer of hope late last week, seminal British rock icons The Stone Roses are FINALLY reuniting in 2012, 16 years after their dissolution.

As confirmed at a press conference at London's Soho Hotel that literally just ended, the band's full original lineup has stopped beefing and will play two shows at Heaton Park in their home base of Manchester on June 29 and 30. Before you start scrounging up cash for a flight over there, though, those shows are the kickoff performances for that full-on Stone Roses WORLD TOUR we've been dreaming of for way too long now. And the best part? Frontman Ian Brown promised that all of our favorite songs will be complemented by NEW SONGS, with the possibility of a new album in the nearish future.

The dudes have a new website up with links to where you can pick up tickets at 9:30am GMT on Friday for the Manchester shows, and they'll be posting up info about the upcoming world tour as soon as available. It goes without saying that we're completely psyched for this news, and will keep you posted on US dates once we know what they are.

Fuck yeah, you guys.

The Stone Roses To Reunite In 2012?!

Image via Make Something Camp

In news that will likely seem like deja vu to pretty much everyone, Clash Music reports that Madchester rock pioneers The Stone Roses are rumored to be reuniting next year. How is this different from every other time they're rumored to reunite? Because there's supposedly going to be a full-on press conference next week about it.

Stay tuned next week for confirmation, and in case you don't remember why you should care, give their 1989 debut album another spin on Spotify. Yes, you want this to happen.

Stone Roses are NOT reuniting

After rumors were abound earlier this week that the classic British rock band Stone Roses were reuniting, NME reports that it is definitely not the case.

I'm sure a reunion is inevitable, but it looks like it isn't happening anytime soon. I guarantee you the British music press has an article already written for when that announcement is made.