One of these days, I’ll write about why I like SXSW far more than the ACL Fest. Granted, most of the enmity toward the latter stems from having worked at the very first festival, which, to put it in the mildest terms, fucking sucked.
For now, I’ll be content just to comb through this year’s showcases to find some clever band names.
- Blanche Davidian
- The Bloody Hollies
- Bottom of the Hudson
- Cheer-Accident
- Dogs Die in Hot Cars (not so much clever as, well, brave)
- Earth the Californian Love Dream
- Feable Weiner (also brave)
- Young Criminals Starvation League
- Fire Marshalls of Bethlehem
- How’s Your News?
- I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
- John Wilkes Booze
- League of XO Gentlemen
- Learning from Las Vegas
- Limited Express (has gone?) (more for the punctuation)
- Need New Body
- Remains of Something Human (not so much clever as … picturesque)
- Six Organs of Admittance (not so much clever as cryptic)
- SuicideGirls Burlesque Act (see Remains of Something Human)
- 10:21 (also cryptic)
- 27 (well, if I’m going to include 10:21 …)
- Volcano, I’m Still Excited!
- Watashi Wa (even if they are a Christian band)
- Weapons of Mass Belief (and diety knows we need summadat)
- What Made Millwaukee Famous (I wonder that myself)