Have a little music group and can’t decide on a name? Lucky for you, we’ve thought up a bunch of ORIGINAL BAND NAMES just for you. To take one of our fabulous free monikers, just write in the “Comments” and tell us why you deserve it and where you’re from. Want to thank us? Buy a book and listen to Our Podcast. Rock On!

• SteamSpünk
• The Draculovers
• Peru McClanahan
• Death from a Shove
• The Girl Getters
• Michael Ironside Deficiency – taken by Tri-State Area Power Trio
• Creamy Pasta Bonanza
• Mopz
• Hope Springs a Turtle
• First Available Agent
• Game Time Decision – alternative rock band from Springfield, IL.
• Laundromatic
• Blunt Force Drama
• My Dad’s Cover Band
• Mush Buhdaydoe
• The Nazzy Snappers
• The Verified Accountants
• Amsterdarn
• Horse Drawn Carnage – Taken by a band from belleville michigan
• The Low Hanging Fruits
• The Dumbskulls
• Millionaire Friend
• Punchsylvania
• Future Human Slavery Update
• Colonel Blimp
• Horror Bulls
• Focus People, Focus

• Hammock View
• The Swine Flutes
• Noah’s Orc
• The Kitchenettes
• Greaseberries
• Emit The Odder
• Hungarian Forkfight – 4 piece hardcore punk band from redding, california
• Maunsell Army Sea Forts
• Grandpa vs. Prowler
• All The Lonely Peep Holes
• The Knighthoodies
• Non-Explosive Chemistry – taken by punk girl band from Chicago.
• Things Not to Do While Alive
• The farTenders
• Doug is Miserable
• Gee Male
• Companion Peace
• Pale Hail
• 74 Fruit Wagon
• Lost Wiikend - taken by a band from Houston, TX
• The Opposition Leaders
• Pop-Art Pantyhose
• Oh! Bee City
• Fat Ice
• Whoa Horsey Whoa
• Such Creatures Exist – taken by hardcore/nintendocore band from High Point, NC
• Bacon 3.0
• Unibody Construction
• Chimp-Powered Blimp
• Border-Collapse
• Mind Erase Her
• The Hairdo Chairs
• Wild Front Tears
• Lump Sum Payout
• Good Times USA
• Deservedly So
• Human Hair Hammock
• Pomegranate Cleanse
• September Fishfood
• The Whoradors
• Thanks, Alaska – taken by band from Peoria AZ
• Install>Crash>Curse – taken by a screamo girl band from NC
• That Being Said
• wooden leg real foot
• The Worst of It – taken by Punk band from Holland
• The Ideal Situation – taken by a band from South Carolina
• Something Suddenly Came Up
• No Biggie
• Michigan Face
• Up Against It
• Big Fat Toddlers
• Duodenum
• The Dead Knot Seas
• Horror Bulls
• Focus People, Focus
• The Low Hanging Fruits
• Colony Collapse
• Week Need
• Skeptic System
• The Gently Used Gents
• Better Football for Boys and Girls

“Quality Workday Distractions”

• Dreamcrusher Jones – taken by a dance punk band from St Louis, MO
• Beast Infection
• The Button Pushers - taken by indie pop alternative band from UK
• Cement Nose
• Grand Theft Otto
• LungBash
• The Grillables
• Major Incident Response Team
• The Record Lows – taken by pop-punk Band from New York
• Quick Fire Challenge
• Meth Lab for Cutie – Meth Lab for Cutie
• thrust parry thrust
• {AwkwardHug} -  taken by Moose (8-Bit Nu-Rave solo project)
• Growth Spurtz
• Ruling The Earth from Within
• Elf Made Man
• The Neck Wringers
• Shapeshifting for Beginners – taken by Nathan
• Ape Sherman: Private Eye
• The Hardlees
• Bone Crushing the Feet – taken by a band of 5 and in VA
• Do My Chores
• Twit Turds
• The Fey Kits
• The Strum Pets
• The Bluto/Brutus Issue
• Is This All There Is
• The Special Darks
• Sixth Grade Square Dance – taken by a Punk-Emo band from LA
• Body by Botero
• South American Toe Biters
• Mostly Cloudy – taken by alternative rock band from Cheshire, MA
• Pleiad
• Hard-Fought Hugs – taken by Alex from Ohio
• Shorter in Person – Shorter In Person taken by a band in madison indaina
• Dancing with Sitars
• Seaside Pillage
• Come What Mayhem – taken by Pop-rock Band from Westfield, Mass.
• Recalling The Beef
• Les XX
• Fife Hero
• The Dim Bulbs
• World’s Strongest Lamb
• Oh Bombahs!
• Baby Fur
• The Weight and The Warmth
• Mist Calls
• The Rushin’ Goo Logs
• Bar Made
• Gee Gnomes
• Today’s Top Stories – taken by a band in Little Rock, Arkansas
• Not What It Looks Like – taken by Callum
• All Gussied Up
• Wither or Not
• Not The First Time I’ve Been Shot
• Canadian Drug Lords
• 10 Shun – taken by uk acoustic band
• püp
• Tweenage Shriekfest – taken by a screamo band from LA
• Burn The Maps – taken by punk/metal band
• in the well of the great wave
• All Right Hamilton – taken by band from cape town, south africa
• Filo Betto
• Such Great Widths
• Your Top Friends
• Try This at Home – Taken by CurrieKid in the UK
• Terror Tapes – Taken by indie alt band from Maryland
• Photos from The Flume
• Thread Bears
• Win Win Situation – taken by Nathan Singletary, South Carolina
• Gnarly Chaplain – taken by pop-punk band in the southwest UK
• Ponies Never Ran Before
• Philthy – taken by punk/metal band from Seymour TN
• The Soft Tissue
• Mrs. Desi Arnez Jr.
• Jan, You Dingaling
• Mouse Mummy
• Just Oates
• Li’l Gotten Gains
• Laps Around The Lake
• Daughter of A Mounty
• The Thinnest of Margins
• Scott Beowulf
• Phil Got Phat
• Reheated Debate
• The Cleve
• B.J. and The Bare
• Salon des Refusés
• Wedgie Proof
• The Bay Gashers
• Rejection Seat – taken by Kasey, Zeeland Michigan
• All The Pitied Fools
• Hellicity – taken by a rock band from Brisbane.
• Glancing Blows
• Ghost Dad
• Leonard Part I
• überNürd
• Pardon Our Parts
• Dark Sky Parks – Taken by were an alt pop punk band from Devon, UK.
• That Less than Fresh Feeling – taken by Justin from KY.
• Castle Repair Squad
• The Bledbugs
• In Control Mild Fire
• Greedo Was Provoked
• Funambulist Falls
• Extended Tuba Solo
• Bodewash
• Body Harmer
• The Droopingtons
• Small Emergent Sea
• Lustful Gaze
• The Gosh Darns
• Temper Temper – Taken by a band from Harrisburg, PA
• Stately Wayne Manor
• Helmet-Mounted Pistol
• May The Best Man Survive – taken by a rock band from the UK
• mangoose
• The Showcase Showdown
• The Manbugs
• Stallone Rangers
• Husky Tuffskins
• Muscle Mouse – taken by alternative stoner band from Reidsville, Georgia
• Six Solid Reasons to Run – taken by a punk/rock band from California.
• Green Achers – taken by a Bluegrass band from Arkansas.
• Tucked in Bed
• Property of – taken by small punk band in toronto.
• Hearts of Midlothian
• Gaper Delay
• Your Potential Love Match – taken by new punk band from Texas
• Jaganath – taken by a stoner band from KY.
• Pick Up The Slacks
• Bulbous Knows
• Super Silly Us
• Mobile Vulgus

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Okay, not much unearthing to do here, this video is only about three years old but I felt the need to give it some love. If you dig The Editors, Interpol, Stellastarr*, Art Brut and even The Jam, pick up A Certain Trigger, it’s one of my top records of the past few years. Here’s what I wrote it about back in 2006:

“Apply Some Pressure” is the most inspired and finely orchestrated piece of pop-rock I’ve eaten up this year. It’s incredibly infectious and smartly delivered. Vocalist Paul Smith has a dramatic Paul Weller delivery that combines the spirit and spunk of The Jam with the modern rump-shaking sounds of The Futureheads. These highly-charged chaps from Newcastle, England motor along merrily with inventive and twisty alacrity for the majority of the CD, but really excel when they slow it down a bit and let Smith belt out some serious singing. “Going Missing” is exquisitely heartfelt and “I Want You to Stay” starts as simple little hand-clapper and blossoms into the CD’s most satisfying track.

More: www.maximopark.com

Thought we’d start the weekend off with a little dance party. Love love love these guys. This is a couple years old and I’m not sure if The Jai-Alai Savant is even still making music, anyhow, I dare you not to like this.

More: From the CD “Flight of The Bass Delegate”

Download MP3: Mirrorful

Website: www.desotorecords.com

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The best-reviewed band of the past ten years, The Hold Steady, has a new album coming out next week, but you lucky folks can hear the whole thing right now on MySpace. It’s called Stay Positive and it sounds quite fabulous.

Back in 2004, I called the band an “acquired taste,” but their sound has grown richer and the production on this album and their last — the breakthrough Boys and Girls in America — was top-notch, so they’re much more accessible to the common man, especially to those classic rock relics who miss The Who and early Springsteen with the big bold pianos, horns and the colorful storytelling. Craig Finn has the storytelling part down cold, that brother can spin a beer-soaked yarn like no other.

Finn also has a great sense of humor and is completely devoid of the rock star arrogance we’ve grown to expect from many a heraded front man.

I’m on my second listen now and this is easily the best thing I’ve heard all year: insanely rocking tunes mixed with some long-burners that have that epic “Greetings From Asbury Park” vibe. Wow! A while back I heard reports that Ben Nichols from Lucero would be making a guest appearance and If I’m not mistaken I think that’s him blasting out some backing vocals on the my two favorite tracks “Magazines” and “Constructive Summer” (I feel some Husker Du “Celebrated Summer” vibe here, Finn is a huge fan). Nice Ben, now finish your own CD. FYI, Lucero rules.

Every fan will tell you The Hold Steady is best heard in a bar. I think those days are over, these guys will be bigger than ever after this thing drops. So in honor, pop in few bucks in your local bar’s jukebox and play the whole thing. Twice. Then drink a lot of beers, Craig would approve.

Here’s a great video, “Chips’ Ahoy,” from there last offering:

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And a classic, “The Swish,” that still had some of the punk edge form Finn’s Lifter Puller days:

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