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While Bruce and Patti aren’t hosting their usual Halloween display because its popularity was overwhelming their neighborhood, the Boss does have a new song (and video) available online, “A Night With the Jersey Devil”: “If you grew up in central or south Jersey, you grew up with the ‘Jersey Devil.’ Here’s a little musical Halloween treat. Have fun!”

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Given the length of time that it’s been rumored to be close to completion, I always figured that the release of Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy” would be preceded by the emergence of Chinese democracy as a political system. But here is Axl’s single, Chinese Democracy

There is another month until the release of the album, but I wouldn’t count on China becoming any ore democratic in that time.
But at least you, the American music and soda pop fan, can get a free Dr. Pepper, thanks to Axl finally letting the world in on his album.

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The CMJ festival rolls into town next week. While we’ll have some number of posts about shows during the week, one of the best parts of these big festivals is looking through the list of bands for trends in band naming.
Colors
Black dominates this category with 10 bands. White is a strong second with 5. Blue defeats Red for third place with 3 bands claiming allegiance. (OK, one band is both black and white and another is both red and blue.)

Animals
The number one threat to CMJ is bears! Or bands named after bears. 8 groups look to the bear for their names. Tigers have 4 band names. Various birds combine for 5 names. Horses, Apes and Whales also inspire multiple bands.

Royalty
The king stays the king in the category

Food

Weather

Ringo Starr

Other People

Gender
Girls are more popular than boys who are more popular than men who are more popular than women.

Geography and Places

Modern Clothes

Punctuation
The explanation point wins this category by a landslide!

Shhhh

So nice, they named it twice (or more)

Other Notably Entertaining Band Names

Who are you looking forward to seeing? Who is worth checking out? Who is skippable?

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The Show with Ze Frank, Sept. 11, 2006:


The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Sept. 20, 2001:

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Over at Ear Farm, Goes Cube gives up on From the Inside Looking Out: Goes Cube (premiere of “Clenching Jaws”) : EAR FARM :: music information helps grow ears: “Not long ago, we decided that ‘Goes Cube Song 58’ should be called ‘Sorry, Were You Sleeping?’, ‘Goes Cube Song 59’ should be called ‘Read Right,’ ‘Goes Cube Song 61’ should be called ‘Loose Ends,’ ‘Goes Cube Song 62’ should be called ‘Gravestones Like Chess Pieces’ and ‘Goes Cube Song 63’ should be called ‘Clenching Jaws.’ ‘Goes Cube Song 60’ will change, too, but it’s an instrumental and not recorded, so we’re taking our time picking out a real interesting title for that one.”
I will be horribly disappointed if they never get around to writing and recording “Goes Cube Song #√-1” (square root of -1, in other words, the imaginary number i)