In high school, the worst of my ideas included the name Something ... Women fronted by a burly dude named Phoebe Cates. A good band name can be an exercise in cleverness, a perfect descriptor ...

Last year, a "Band Name of the Day" (#bnotd) initiative was championed by our own Bronwyn Thompson – who certainly knows a good band name when she sees one, having spent many years as a ...

A good band name does not define whether or not an ... Lyrics are an especially fertile ground for this, with phrases often sparking name ideas. With that in mind, we've combed through the ...

“There might have been other ideas for offshoots at the time ... It’s said there are rules and formulas to a good band name: Is it original? Memorable? Can you Google it?

today on band names, and how all the good ones are already taken. Take Them Crooked Vultures. Means nothing. John Paul Jones told the Journal: "Think of a great band name and Google it ...

Coming up with a good band name is no easy task. Sure, there’s a seemingly infinite amount of words to choose from, but there are so many past and present bands that it’s hard to come up with ...

The first band names would have existed hundreds of years before music started being recorded. But in the early days of the recorded era the first names belonged to barbershop and harmony groups ...