Lions and Tigers and Bears, Beware: Nine New Band-Name Trends on the Rise at SXSW

Paste Magazine ^ | March 8, 2009 | By Rachael Maddux

[I Buried My Guns]

Kittens Ablaze? Just might have to name my daughter that.

[a fool in paradise]

The Alan Parsons Project...

[a fool in paradise]

[rfp1234]

Hampton & the Hampsters.

[GSWarrior]

Dave Gonzales & the Stone River Boys

Went to junior college with this guy. He was in rockabilly band The Palladins and went on to form the Hacienda Brothers with Chris Gaffney. Gaffney died of liver cancer last year.

[trumandogz]

Thanks, I will have to check out some of these bands at SXSW.

[Constitution Day]

Very funny! Thanks!

[a fool in paradise]

Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head
NID & SANCY
Or, the Whale
Psychedelic Horsesh!t

More names here:
http://sxsw.com/music/shows/schedule?a=alpha&s=k&e=o

[labowski]

The Black Angels are a really good band, never heard of any of the others, cept the cold war kids the indigo girls and the Oak Ridge Boys. The Oak Ridge Boys? at SXSW?

[a fool in paradise]

Johnny Cash played the SXSW back in 1994. It isn’t just for undiscovered bands.

I’ve heard the Black Angels.

There are over a thousand bands listed, this are just part of the name game...

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Let me know how Project Bananarama turns out!

[dfwgator]

What about the band, “Hamburgers with Doo Doo as the Meat” I just saw them last week at the “Reconsider Lounge”.

(Yes, I’m a P1)

[a fool in paradise]

"ZIP IT! ZIP IT GOOD!"

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[trumandogz]

SXSW started out as a venue for unsigned bands to be seen and be signed. However, now Labels bring in their famous band to draw in crowds to their showcases so the lesser known acts. There are of course still plenty of unsigned bands that play.

As for more well known acts that have played SXSW over the years I have seen Johnny Cash, Sonic Youth, Carl Perkins, Tony Bennett, Iggy Pop, REM and Southern Culture on the Skids.

I think this year will be my 20th SXSW.

[labowski]

Yeah, I think Roky Erickson played last year or the year before. I played with the Indigo Girls back in 95 at the Texas Music Hall for SXSW, that was a hoot. Just didn’t think the Oak Ridge Boys were “weird” enough for Austin : )
Wish it was closer though, always a good time...

[trumandogz]

I never imagined that members of the Indigo Girls were on Free Republic.

[trumandogz]

Was that the Ausin Music Hall?

.
I might have been at that show.

Michele Shocked may have also played that night.

That was a nice venue that no longer exists.

Saw the Cramps there, the Ramones, Butthole Surfers and B.B. King.

A great venue.

[EveningStar]

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[lormand]

I have always thought of making a band name software engine to help out garage bands thinking of a name.

All you do is pick 1 or more major categories, say, a vegetable and a body part.

You click "GO" and it will randomly pick something out like...

Broccoli Toenails