Music Nerds Guide to MPB

If you're a music nerd, it's always fun to one-up your friends with your knowledge of obscure bands. So much the better if those obscure bands are brilliant. These lesser-known artists take stabs at MPB—the irresistible melodies, the startling combo of American rock with Afro-Brazilian syncopation—and it makes you realise what a crapshoot fame can be. These all could have been hits.