August 2012
2 posts
BAND THAT HAS IT COMING:
Cited As An Influence (submitted by Kontextmaschine) 
Aug 18th
BAND CITED AS AN INFLUENCE
Have It Coming (submitted by Kontextmaschine) 
Aug 17th
February 2012
1 post
5 tags
all-female neo-Garage rock band:
Galligator 
Feb 2nd
1 note
December 2011
1 post
4 tags
faux-metrosexual hipster rapper name:
Vaseline Sexy Legs (taken from the title of a misguided ad analysis paper)
Dec 6th
2 notes
6 tags
awkwardly lascivious American Britpop band name:
Burst Loveletters (from a chapter title from Gilbert Sorrentino’s Mulligan Stew)
Dec 1st
4 notes
September 2011
3 posts
5 tags
all-girl (but the drummer) 90s revival band name:
No Mister Right Girlfriend
Sep 29th
4 notes
4 tags
slightly wussy art rock band name:
Fingers At Random
Sep 21st
2 notes
3 tags
twee band name:
The Permanent Crushes  [suggested by VJ Franz K]
Sep 6th
8 notes
August 2011
2 posts
4 tags
New Wave band name:
Robot Culinaire [French name for a “Food Processor”]
Aug 16th
1 note
6 tags
dance-punk band name:
Wild Abdomen [a witty malpropism by John Lennon]
Aug 13th
1 note
July 2011
5 posts
4 tags
not quite post-punk band name:
Professor O’Blivion [from Cronenberg’s Videodrome]
Jul 30th
2 notes
6 tags
90s pop-punk band name:
The Magnificent Dead Guys [from Mystery Men]
Jul 21st
3 tags
Band Whose "Bassist Wanted" Flyer Named Neutral...
Cable Rights on the Island of Yap [submitted by Kontextmaschine]
Jul 20th
1 note
6 tags
experimental indie-electro duo name:
A’a’ Lava [I was watching a documentary about Volcanoes …  This lava is “spiny or blocky”]
Jul 12th
1 note
3 tags
dubstep club name:
Side-Chain City
Jul 4th
June 2011
6 posts
7 tags
post-Beefheart freak surf band name:
Prominent Dude & the Boring Boobs [this was an amalgamation of two different tumblr-related conversations with RealBroad]
Jun 28th
2 notes
7 tags
dark psychedelic five piece band name:
Hot Awesome Family
Jun 22nd
2 notes
5 tags
postpunk ska band name:
Mail Man Jail
Jun 21st
6 notes
6 tags
lo-fi garage revival album (preferably by a group...
Hangmen Also Die [the name of this German film by Fritz Lang]
Jun 14th
4 tags
Frat Basement Band Name:
Pregnant Bartender [submitted by kontextmaschine]
Jun 7th
1 note
6 tags
Captain Beefheart cover band name:
Megaloid Momworship (from Phillip Willey’s “Generation of Vipers”) [submitted by Kontextmachine]
Jun 2nd
4 tags
twee rock band name:
Hot Laundry
Jun 1st
1 note
May 2011
14 posts
3 tags
deliberately unshaven dragqueen or scuzz rock band...
Sweaty Boop
May 26th
1 note
3 tags
shoegaze band name:
Vanilla Dayjob
May 25th
8 tags
dickish & derivative pop-punk trio name:
Gary Busey Quartet (submitted by Gorth Gortherson)
May 20th
7 notes
5 tags
May 19th
10 notes
6 tags
socially awkward industrial prog-rock band name:
Saskatchewan Power Exchange (submitted by Gorth Gortherson)
May 18th
5 tags
hipster pop band name;
H.a.i.r..D.a.y. (the name of an actual business by the Wiltern)
May 13th
3 notes
5 tags
all-girl scuzz-punk band name:
Stupid Boys (suggested by Erin)
May 10th
1 note
5 tags
Americana band name:
Shank’s Mare (archaic slang for walking as a mode of long distance transport, according to the Word Detective)
May 9th
2 notes
6 tags
alt-country jam band name:
Trigger Whiskey Saloon (from the Czech movie Lemonade Joe)
May 7th
8 tags
BACKPACK RAP MC NAME:
Priapa the Rapper (submission from kontextmaschine)
May 4th
3 notes
8 tags
hipster lo-fi rock ensemble:
The Rear Derailleurs [suggested by Will J.]
May 3rd
3 tags
twee band name:
Satan’s So-and-Sos
May 3rd
1 note
3 tags
new wave band name:
Erotic Slander
May 2nd
1 note
April 2011
17 posts
4 tags
pseudo-experimental indie-electo performer name:
White Subtitles (the bane of foreign film fans)
Apr 29th
2 tags
better as a tumblr than a rock band or album name:
Hide It Away Under A Stupid Rock (from a conversation with RealBroad)
Apr 27th
1 note
5 tags
cross-dressing swamp-punk band name:
Lustbox (something Michael Caine calls Shelley Winters in “Alfie”)
Apr 26th
6 tags
lo-fi band with no female members but brittle...
Clean Girls (from an episode of “Rob & Big”)
Apr 25th
1 note
6 tags
rapper name:
Fat Apollo (from T’s comment that “Writing right now feels like when Fat Apollo had to lose all that weight after the Cylons came back”)
Apr 22nd
10 notes
7 tags
art-punk band that also might get mistaken for a...
Overkill Engine (the robots that you program in Carnage Hearts)
Apr 21st
5 tags
chiptune band who will be mistaken for death metal...
The Carnage Hearts (it’s obscure game for the PS1.  I was always intrigued by its packaging artwork but never played it.)
Apr 20th
2 notes
7 tags
lo-fi garage-metal band name:
Jail Blood (a special effect I learned about from listening to the audio commentary to “Evil Dead II”)
Apr 18th
4 tags
nerdcore rapper name:
Magellan Altavista (continuing yesterday’s theme)
Apr 17th
1 note
6 tags
electro-rock cover band that only plays songs from...
The Netscape Navigators (I’ve been so happy skipping through fields of flowers with other browsers that I only now learned that Netscape tanked in 2008.  RIP.)
Apr 16th
32 notes
5 tags
lo-fi art-rock album name:
to call a victim with vampire arms (the definition of “snake” from The Flappers’ Dictionary- http://bookflaps.blogspot.com/2011/04/flappers-dictionary.html)
Apr 15th
5 tags
scuzz rock band name:
The Dooty Hoors (also inspired by “Bad Taste“—think kiwi and say it phonetically)
Apr 14th
4 tags
indie rapper name:
Intergalactic Wanker (from Peter Jackson’s “Bad Taste”)
Apr 13th
1 note
3 tags
chillwave band name:
obsessionaweek: Infinisynth (named after the virtual reality network from the Bruce Campbell movie “Mind Warp” (accidentally uploaded this to this to the queue of one of my other tumblrs)
Apr 12th
2 notes
4 tags
rhythmically diverse drum & guitar duo name:
Struggle Buggy (a slang term for an unreliable car in poor condition, according to Clarence Major)
Apr 8th
2 notes