I'm with the band: meet the pitiful proteges of pop music patrons

From Kurt Cobain espousing the middling Melvins to Kanye West signing a singer from the library circuit, an artist’s ability to make great music doesn’t always mean they can identify itLast week saw the release of the painfully bland new album by Vance Joy, one of the many proteges of Taylor Swift, who took him out as a support act on her 1989 world tour (though apparently they don’t talk any more). Swift has form for bigging up other musicians: she has championed not just V...

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