The group put together a list of potential names, each one worse than the last. There was the Chicago Tar, It’s the Cops, and, most repulsive of all, Jimmy Crack Corn and the I Don’t Cares. Finally, the name Rise Against was suggested, and it sounded too good to be true. “We thought there had to already be a band called Rise Against,” says Principe. “But there wasn’t, so we went with that.”
