It is so easy to hear samples of bands now that we need the "gatekeepers" less and less. We can make up our own minds.

If you ever get to know that they exist. For 'gatekeepers' you could just as easily substitute 'window openers'. One of my favourite new discoveries of the past few months has been the Brighton band Duck Soup, for example. It is very unlikely that I would ever have heard of them were it not for a magazine review and now an article, they dont get radio play and dont seem to do many gigs as far as I can see.