Tease the Devil: The 10 Most Metal Band Names For Non-Metal Bands
Scavenging our cultural tundra for ripping new metal bands to sink your fangs into, sometimes you bite into an overly tuneful, utterly unmoshable red herring. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the Day#WebBands (Awesome of the Day)
Occasionally, a Twitter hashtag will rise above the noise and unleash the creativity of the masses in service of the greater good. This week, that greater good is a torrent of great/groan-inducing puns on band names, making them more suited for the web. See them all at #WebBands, but here are some of my favorites:... read more
Found in: Blogs, High Gravity#WebBands (Awesome of the Day)
Occasionally, a Twitter hashtag will rise above the noise and unleash the creativity of the masses in service of the greater good. This week, that greater good is a torrent of great/groan-inducing puns on band names, making them more suited for the web. See them all at #WebBands, but here are some of my favorites:... read more
Found in: Blogs, Awesome of the DayThe 100 Best Band Names of All Time
Naming your band is an art all of its own, one that doesn't necessarily correlate with an ability to make music. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayTop 10 new band names, per the 2008 Vice Presidential debate
Much to our suprise, Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin's debate last Thursday yielded far fewer ridiculous band names than did their top-of-the-ticket counterparts' parley the week before. We pulled out ten pretty servicable ones (seriously, someone please start one of these bands, we'll put you on the Sampler or something*), though we're resigned to this being, at best, only the second-funniest thing to be inspired by the 2008 election's first and only Vice Presidential debate. ... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VTop 20 new band names, per the first 2008 Presidential debate
By the time we got around to watching last Friday's debate between Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, we were more than a little loopy (thanks, ACL). Our feet were weary, our voices shot and our lungs full of dust, but our inner Dave Barrys were on fire: Despite the gravity of the issues at hand, all we could hear coming from the mouths of these two very powerful and important men were band names. Goofy band names. Awesome band names. Names of bands we want to own all the albums by. Names of bands whose fans we want... read more
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