Everyone loves to scour over the list of bands that are scheduled to play during SXSW. And every year there are quite a few band names that stand out and might make you chuckle. Here, I’ve compiled an amusing and categorized list of bands playing this year’s festival.
It’s baaaack: SXSW is upon us once again. The economy is (finally) on the up-and-up, folks have a few bucks to spare, and we all have some post-winter wiggles to get out which makes mid-March the most wonderful time of the year. Thankful for my new glasses, I finally had a chance to scour the (tiny font size of the) official list of SXSW 2011 Showcasing acts.
I must say that one of the best parts of the initial reveal is checking out the often bizarre, hilarious, super creative, and sometimes even downright nasty band names.
Organized according to the best themes I noticed, here are some of my faves:
Lions, Tigers, & Bears, Oh Shit!
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger
Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger!
Twin Tigers
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Boy & Bear
Miniature Tigers
Golden Bears
Oh No Oh My
The Birds & The Bees
Slang Chickens
Penguin Prison
She Keeps Bees
Pterodactyl
Yellow Ostrich
Leisure Birds
The Wooden Birds
Heidi Spencer & The Rare Birds
T Bird & The Breaks
Sea of Bees
Relations
Grandchildren
Kopecky Family Band
Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
Fiction Family
Middle Brother
Goldberg Sisters
Rocky Loves Emily
O’Brother
Volkova Sisters
Waco Brothers
Therapies Son
Sex With Strangers
The Stepkids
Tasty
Cheeseburger
Bowling For Soup
Black Milk
The Refreshments
Pomegranates
Peanut Butter Wolf
Freshlyground
Wardrobe
Ghettosocks
Puffyshoes
White Denim
Indian Jewelry
Slapping Purses
Funeral Suits
Pat JORDACHE
Men Without Hats
Sundress
Sunglasses
Creative , Funny, Weird
B L A C K I E, All Caps, With Spaces
Uh Huh Her
Gay for Johnny Depp
Jackie Chain
Flosstradamus
The Hong Kong Blood Opera
The Tumbledryer Babies
Say “No!” To Architecture
There are also a ton of names that are utterly unpronounceable, “young”, prehistoric, colorful, “lost”, and beastly.
