I know, it's been a while since I've found some new bands. I blame my vacation. But here are some more good band names I've found! If you end up using any of these, musician friends, you can repay me back by letting me backstage at all your concerts. :P
As always, these are actual turns of phrases and collections of abbreviations I stumble across in the course of my editing work. I collect them for my own amusement and periodically share them here, just because.
1. Failure to Thrive
I think this would be a great name for a political (post) punk band with an agenda. There's something edgy and cynical about it.
2. Abnormal Head Sperm
An irreverent indie/pop band would fit this one, well. I'm thinking something like Barenaked Ladies, Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, or The Arrogant Worms.
3. Vegetable Bodies
This one I'm not so sure about, but whatever it is, it's definitely something mellow. Deep house, trance, space ambient, New Age...take your pick.
4. Embryonic Circuit
This can't be anything other than an electronica band, though of a different flavor than Vegetable Bodies. A bit more toe-tappy and danceable, like Sneaker Pimps or Ladytron.
5. Expert Apple
For some reason, I'm picturing a cutesy indie/folk duo, similar to Pomplamoose. Plastic-rimmed glasses, skinny jeans, and ukuleles galore.
What's fun about playing My New Band is that often, when I notice the name, the genre hits me right away, nine times out of ten. I didn't have to think too hard about most of these, but maybe your immediate associations are different than mine?
I had a hard time deciding what kind of band this would be. I eventually settled on like garage punk, but I'm not sure. This one is up for debate. Do you have any ideas?
2. Not Bot Hort
Electronica of some kind.
3. South China Fruits
Something bright and cheery with a lot of horns. Ska, maybe? Or just ~world music~?
4. (The) New Zeal
As if this could be anything but a throwback swing revival band!
5. Pernicious Anemia
I think the best choice for this one is an operatic or melodic metal band. It just sounds metal-y, plus it doubles as a not-very-funny joke. (Anemia = low iron levels in the blood, iron = metal, therefore a metal band named after anemia is funny?)
My day job (or well, one of them) is proofreading science articles. My contract says "editor" and that's what I tell people I do, but really I spend most of my day adding Oxford commas, changing hyphens to en dashes, and making sure the authors use a proper degree symbol instead of a superscript lowercase "O" or something else equally bizarre. I'm not editing for content or style in a really meaningful way, or on the body that decides which papers are accepted or rejected, which is what people usually think of when they hear "editor," so "proofreading" strikes me as a little more accurate.
Anyway, I keep a collection of odd and amusing turns of phrases in a game I call "My New Band." Sometimes I share them on Twitter, other times I send them to my boss, and other times I just keep them to myself. I don't know why I didn't think to share them here until now. It certainly seems like a ~bloggable~ topic. Who knows, maybe I'll even get around to coming up with album titles and art for all of my imaginary new bands!
What I assume is my typical blog demographic.
Here's Volume 1. Confidential to all you aspiring rockstars out there: you're welcome.
1. Behemoth Toxicities I feel like this would be a metal band. I don't know what kind of metal, because I know there are approximately 98271 different subgenres, but it would be metal.
2. Ultra Junior As if, thanks to Super Junior, this could be anything other than an Asian boy band.
The three stages of "Sorry, Sorry:" you like, you hate it, you have an inexplicable and frightening love of it.
3. Squat Down Situation
I can't decide if this would be a hip-hop group or a jam band. But it would definitely be one of them.
4. Bright Sunday Dongo
Definitely one of those hippie-esque "world music" bands that I like more than I care to admit. Possibly bluegrass. I think a didgeridoo would definitely be involved.
and finally, the bingo bonus goes to:
5. Heterotic
This is a band that, as it turns out, actually exists. I Google random words and phrases from papers a lot to check for spelling and capitalization, and lo and behold this was the rare time when the first hit was a music video. Reproduced here, for your pleasure (if you're into electro/synth/mellow out stuff):
