The New Band Name Game

New band names usually bubble up spontaneously. For instance, my friend Andrew sent me a text in which he inadvertently thumbed the numeral 9 instead of the @ symbol. His next text said, “Disregard the 9.” Thus a new band name was born.

If you’d like to play, use the hashtag #NewBandName when posting or tweeting your contribution.

Below is a partial list of #NewBandNames friends and I have come up with over the last couple of years. Enjoy!

A Sudden Hair
All the Suddens
Arrows and Bras
Assassinology
Bag of Ropes
Balloon Schrapnel
Barking Soybeans
Calculus of Despair
Cheese and Soap
Coffee Puppets
CowKid
Deconstructed Guacamole
Dessert Peanut
Disregard the 9
Disregard the Goat
Drowning in Mannequins
Failed Mime
Filled with Spoons
Give Your Duck to Me
Goat-toothed Waitress
Gordon the Outside
Gratuitous Vowels
Groovious
Grumble of Pugs
Happy Faces of Destruction
I Called You Mustard
I Love Fub
I Punched Your Bagel
‪I Sense Dill
Justin Beiber’s Monkey
Meat Facial
Meatcandy
Peasant of Plot
Pun Locker
Purse Never Listens
Quarter-Hearted
Radial Obedience
Rocking the Hobo
Russian Hedgehog
Sad Bacon
Series One Ladle
Smoky Phlegm
Smothering Love Manifesto
Strengthen Your Thumbs
SugarDirt
Surprise Cantaloupe
Surprise Uncle
Swing Odd
Tell Me My Tell
The Nosesigh
The Original Dan
Tiny Space Sweat
Tooty Soups
Trafficking Mayonnaise
Uncomfortable Synonyms
Unnecessarily Enthusiastic
Yeah That’s Yeah That’s Yeah
You’re Dumb and I’m Sleepy
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