There are lots of names that would be great for bands… Let’s make a list of them here. Submit a Comment with any you’d like to see added! Continuously updated. Thanks Jay and others for helping with this list!

Pedantic Venacular
Double Entendre Snack Food (AKA Salty Nut Log and the Doube Creme Betweens)
Pernicious Nonsense
Soulless Hellhole
Boggart Dementor

Gabriel and the Almighty Slap
Extruded Plastic Dingus
Tender Nipple Buds
Dolphins of the Barnyard
Man Up, Nancy!
Emotional Clods
Locking Loins (and, the spin off “Banging Ass”)
Infested with Art Students
The PCs (Pretentious Cocks)
Obviously Derivative (a cover band, naturally)
Pre-Fab Chaos
God’s Comic
Little Burn-Faced Midget Boy and the EMTs
Corpse Dogs
Unkle Al and the Green Jeans
Man Mayo
Little Burn Face Midget Boy & The Shriners
Harmonious Breath
Cupid’s Firey Shaft
Meddling Monkey
Athenian Swain
Female Ivy

Mac Dang and the Ripple Creek Fairies
The Flung
Hillbillies on Crack
Morbid Obesity
Duke Mad Dog Thumper and the Jump City Big Beats
Trouble in the Treble Clef
Jesus Laughed
Wicked Lizard
Out of Sink
Suburban Voodoo
Benny and the C Notes
Tuneful Bucket
Free Beer
Alexander Graham Hell and his Infernal Telemarketers
Above Concern
Lost Noise
The Badass Fajitas
Växthus Potatis
Coitus Farm
The Hateful Oboes
The Expunged
Terminal Zone
Edgy McGee and the Randy Scott Gits
Zog and the Waxers
Mac Tarr and the Ass Vaulters
Walpurgis and the Bonfires
Sneaky Pete and the Glory Holes
Running into Walls
Morose Paul and the Gloomies
Spitting Teeth
Human Slaw
Vell Crow and the Rippers
Milton and the Swingliners
Vigorous Apathy
Total Eclipse of the Fun (a blues band)
Claire Ian and the Blau Punks
Dead in Czechoslovakia
Psychedelic Death Music
Luna E. Klips
Ad Nauseum
Chafing Fuel
Sterno and the Gas Guzzlers
Caulk Gun
Soul-Sucking Harpies
Proximity Orgasm
Climb, Stall & Plummet
Taxi to the Terminal Zone
The Coaster Frogs
C-LITS and the Hoodies (it’s a hip-hop thang)
Soundz Annoying
Erectile Disfunction
For A’breast
Irrational Temperment
Sex 4 Hire
displeasurements
Bert Bee and the Bikini Waxers
Iris and the Retinas
Crank and Pedal
Bob’s Your Uncle
We’re in Barney
The Butcher’s Hook
Stella and the Wonderful Two-Strokes
Mt. Fuji Rabbits
Baby Jane and the Sippy Cups
Al Bumen and the Yolksmen (an accustic folk group)
Al Bumen and the Eggciting Omelets (now a psychedelic acid-rock band)
Milton and the Red Swingliners
Gross Air
The Spontaneous Procrastinators
Amateur Fishhook
Snow Business (Like Snow Business I Know)
Tune in a Bucket
Truly Ponderous Poops
The Public Leaning Posts (The PLPs)
BJ and the Cunning Linguistics
Tongue-Tied in the Valley
Overheard on the Radio
The Ineligible Bachelors
The Confirmed Bachelors
The Young and the Very Well Rested
Intrascrotal Hematoma (thanks Ray!)

I asked my friend Karin, lead singer for the band Over the Rhine, how their recent tour was. I specifically said, “How is the road?”, and she replied as follows… 

the road is:long, bumpy, sometimes smooth and straight, but every now and then a slow curve is welcome. it is lonely and yet overcrowded, always interesting and different and still somehow familiar, narrow and harrowing, deadly and alluring. addicting and intoxicating. stimulating and mind-numbing. always going to be there, impossible to ignore, harder to run from, and in my blood.

I think she summed it up very nicely! I’m glad they had a good tour and made it home safely. If you get a chance to see Over the Rhine, I strongly suggest that you do so.

My buddy Poulw designed and built his own multiple guitar stand for less than $30. Similar stands go for upwards of $100. He posted how to build your own, complete with pictures, here. Dog not included.

If you’re a person who needs such a thing, this is a good route!

From the creators of the Musical Genome Project comes the following:

Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like?

It’s pretty darned neat.

Reprinted from Boing Boing.

Today is Dean Grey Tuesday, a net-wide day of protest over Warner Brothers’s attempt to censor a stupendous noncommercial mashup album called American Edit that remixes Green Day’s album American Idiot.

For today, websites across the Internet are mirroring the American Edit album and/or turning their page-backgrounds grey. Mashup albums don’t hurt the sales of the albums they sample — at worst, they have no effect on sales, at best they can promote them. Artists who are signed to major labels can avail themselves of labels’ legal departments when they want to remix others’ work and get their samples cleared. Indie artists, hobbyists and fans don’t get legal assistance from labels’ high-priced fixers. This is pure patronage: in the old days you couldn’t make art unless the King or some bishop granted you permission; today you need permission from a studio executive.

The labels admit this. Last year, EMI made headlines by censoring DJ Danger Mouse’s Grey Album, which remixed the Beatles’ White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album. I raised this with an EMI representative at London’s Creative Economy conference and she shrugged it off: “What’s the problem? We later hired Danger Mouse to make a mashup album for us.”

The problem is that copyright law is supposed to decentralize the process of making art, moving the power to authorize art from royalty to the marketplace. Labels have no business setting themselves up as arbiters of what art can and can’t be made.

Happy Dean Grey Tuesday. Up yours, Warners. Link

To celebrate the release of OHIO, their new double-CD release on Backporch Records, Over the Rhine did an in-store at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Hyde Park this afternoon.

Over the Rhine’s Karin Bergquist & Linford Detweiler

They played a few songs — the ones I can recall off the top of my head were Fever, Hometown Boy, Suitcase, Show Me, Ohio, The Seahorse, and certainly a couple others I’m forgetting — and chatted a bit about the new release before signing autographs for the large assembled crowd.

It was nice to see so many people at the in-store. The place was fairly crowded, and I felt fortunate to have a nice bench close to the band. I saw Dan T., Margarita, Debbie, and Bruce, but the rest of the folks were new faces, which makes me happy because OTR is getting some long-overdue new blood in their crowds.

The new CD is quite good. Do check it out!

If you're a fan of Peter Mulvey or have never heard of this amazing singer/songwriter, check out this audio interview with Peter, from the 9/22/02 of National Public Radio. RealAudio required.

This is a great piece and a good link to send friends who haven't heard Peter.

Yesterday, an article in the Cincinnati Post mentioned the Tribute CD. You can read the article here.