To those in a band, what's your band name and how'd you come up with it?

onsdag1 · 3 months

Fjordfader (Fjord father). Norwegian Viking Metal. It seemed obvious.

gotanysparecake · 3 months

Ask someone for a random word. Repeat with someone else. Combine two, or use as is. We've performed twice as Millenium Shrimp.

joshuajonah · 3 months

The Cumtwats. The lead singer's last name is Comtois.

skoomy · 3 months

Plainclothes Tracy. It's from the original Dick Tracy comic books.

axialage · 3 months

"The Local Town Temperance League"

It's a joke because we're always drinking on stage.

RYONHUEHUE · 3 months

"The Elite Fourever Alone" So lonely.

kkuehl · 3 months

http://www.reverbnation.com/thejohnhughesquartet We do punk/metal remakes of 80s songs. Some of the songs we do are from John Hughes movies like The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink.

One of my friends suggested the name as a joke. None of us in the band could all decide on a name, so we just said fuck it and used his suggestion.

limprichard · 3 months

It's horrible. Todd Carlstrom and the Clamour (I'm American but I love to Anglicize things). Well, it's not horrible, but I don't like it. We weren't married to our name at first, but then this kinda major gig fell in our laps when we'd only been together a few months so I've felt like I couldn't change it after that. Not that we got anything approaching widespread coverage as a result, so I should just go ahead and change the name.

dazedbyday · 3 months

Alcian. From alcian blue a chemical that one of us ran across at work one day. We decided on it after a really long time discussing names. It was really difficult to find one we all could agree on and have it sound right.

joereadel · 3 months

The older I get the more I feel like basically every band name is dumb. I would advise against skewing silly, however, because as your band gains traction you'll grow to hate it (and changing band names after a year is terrible). Anyways, my band is called The Creak, and while I don't exactly remember how we came up with it, I remember we had a few guidelines: there can't be another band with the same name, it shouldn't be dramatic, not too long, be mindful of acronyms, and nothing that indicates the genre. After that we just waited until it came along. Good luck.

krillinhazuki · 3 months

My band writes songs exclusively about dinosaurs. We named ourselves "Dinophilia."

Sexy and relevant lol.

Mukwic · 3 months

Bad Chicken. Our drummer was a 51 year old black man. Nuff said.

MCHammer666 · 3 months

The Mouth Trumpets

ReachingHorizons · 3 months

Right now we're contemplating being called Onglish (Like "English" but with an O) due to an inside joke. The unofficial name before that was Cisco World Tour.

metalman421 · 3 months

my first band was called "five guys" because we got up and stage and forgot to come up with a band name beforehand, and there were five of us in the band. my current band in named "democalypse" after the dorm we all live in+apocalypse. lazy? maybe. but our dorm is full of hipsters and we play metal so fuck it

yokaishinigami · 3 months

Just recently formed a two person act.

Under the name of Kraken Time, which is also kind of an allusion to the Cracks in time from Doctor who. will probably change the name once we get more members.

DTroll · 3 months

The Serpentine Gunners - We were sitting in a car listening to the radio and the lady on air said "up next we have the Gunners" and everyone thought it was cool, but we obviously couldn't use it, so we added Serpentine in there cause our lead guitarist likes snakes. Heres our logo

DarkSolace · 3 months

The best way to do it IMO is to rip off the name of an obscure song from one of your bands. I did that with a band I was in called "Naked Sunday" Or really just think long and hard. The first step to making a band is not actually naming it.

toejam10 · 3 months

The band I'm in is called Formalists. We used to practice in the singer's apartment in a Russian neighbourhood under the name Saskatoon Guitar Destroyer (we're from Toronto and have no affiliation with Saskatoon). We played folkish rockish music pretty loudly and were pretty well hated in the apartment. Now, Joseph Stalin was very finicky about what music should thrive in Communist Russia; those that he liked were well promoted and funded, those that he did not were not so and were referred to as the Formalists.

Stalcup · 3 months

After cycling through about 4 names, we have decided to stick with Magic Bullets. It's for a few reasons. A- It sounds cool. B- We like Bill Hicks and Bill Hicks likes JFK conspiracy theories C-it combines garage rock/blues "bullets" with psychadelic/prog "Magic" this is our style. D- the fucking blender. E- the god damned fucking blender.

For those who want to hear, here is a really shitty recording and our facebook page. I'll post again when we record more than our garage rock stuff.

fweakout · 3 months

My band's name is [Vortex Surfer](www.vortexsurfer.com). It is named after the Motorpsycho song. All three of us are big fans of motorpsycho so it seemed obvious. We tend to blend their style nowadays with some raw influences by bands like Triggerfinger.

Technicolourboy · 3 months

The Kiss Hello. Its based off an episode of Seinfeld about the subject. Our singer is a huge Seinfeld fan.

AllThtNoisNStufNJank · 3 months

"Collateral." we decided that that will be our name unless someon can come up with something better. we don't have a site.

Claypool2112 · 3 months

Canyon Smith Militia.

We were flipping through our history book and put a finger on a word and the first three words we got were Canyon Smith Militia

Leg-iron · 3 months

The Internet/ Google has made it harder to pick band names; it sucks to find out that the name of choice is held by three other bands and a New Zealand soccer team! (So much for callin' ourselves "The Stumps"!)

Back in the '80s I was in a band called A.K.A. (acronym for Also Known As) and we'd pick a different name every gig, prominently including the A.K.A. logo right underneath on the flyer. We even did one show as "Dick Tweaky and the Deathbunnies". I have no idea why.

Now I'm a member of The Panindias Brothers.
(Sorta like "Pain-in-the-ass" but ya gotta say it sexy...)
We are Sucho, Totale', Majore' and (Mom's favorite) Royale'.
Our sound-tech is Severe', and our resident groupie is Constanta.

Oh.
The last (and some say most important) member of our little entourage is a gent named Don Julio. Lives in the freezer.

Mmm.

GeezaFlea · 3 months

My band name is Alexander and the Grapes. Started as Alexander and the Greats, got billed wrong on a flier, and we changed it. Check us out if you're going to be at SXSW this year!

HotDogKnight · 3 months

Was originally called "Incognito" and then got a ceast-and-desist from the Australian smooth jazz artist known as "Incognito". We opened up a Edger Allen Poe Anthology and found the phrase "A Troop Of Echoes"

Astrixtc · 3 months

I play in a jazz combo called Pink Monkey. We were wasted at Oktoberfest. I bought my brother a stuffed pink monkey that read "ische liebe disch" and forced him to wear it around his neck the entire festival. That translates to poor German for "I live you." After liters of beer I drunkenly proclaimed that we will name our band pink monkey until we come up with something better.

As a bonus, after we'd been a band for a year and somewhat established ourselves, a gentleman's club opened up in our city with the same name.

oogleboogle1 · 3 months

Exit.

Because we were lazy and the only thing of interest in the room was a fire exit sign.

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