sobota, 14 maja 2011

"Ask the indie professor: Why so many bad band names?"

W jednym z ostatnich odcinków "Ask the indie professor" na guardian.co.uk, autorka radzi, jak nie nazywać swojego zespołu.

"Last week I was at the SXSW festival in Austin, where bad band names were easy to come by. The one people complained to me about the most was Adam Arcuragi and the Lupine Chorale Society (Philadelphia). I see this has issues all around. It's long. It's difficult to pronounce and it seems too similar to the spate of bands with "Wolf" in the title (Wolf Parade, Sea Wolf, Wolf Mother, Wolf Gang, Wolf & Cub, Peanut Butter Wolf) as well as a certain tinge of "Twilight zeitgeist" pandering. The ubiquitousness of certain words in band names ends up making those bands sound unoriginal. At least 11 bands at the festival had "black" in the title and seven had the word "young." The Los Angeles-based Black Crystal Wolf Kids, an exuberant and self-effacing indie cover band, were parodying name trends."


"Ask the indie professor: Why so many bad band names?"

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