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Lady Antebellum, aka Lady A (2006-).
Death Cab for Cutie (1997-).
Named after a song by the ’60s Brit group Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band. Death Cab... shot to fame in 2009, when their song, Meet Me on the Equinox, was featured in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Frontman Ben Gibbard has admitted that if he knew his band would still be popular 15 years later, he would’ve picked something
“more obvious”.
Foo Fighters (1994-).
Frontman Dave Grohl drew from the nickname that World War II pilots used to report UFOS. He also picked to release work following Nirvana’s
The Need You Now hitmakers dropped Antebellum from their name in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests. The term refers to the period before the American Civil War (1861-1865), when slavery drove economic and social life. The band admitted to feeling “regretful and embarrassed at only just realising the association of the word with slavery and the hurt it must have caused fans”.
On a Friday, aka Radiohead (1985-).
The OG name made sense when the Oxfordshire high-schoolers would rehearse after classes every Friday. They soon realised that their name was limiting their availability to just one day of the week. EMI Records asked them to change their name in the 1990s. And since the group loved Talking Heads, it was an easy jump. break-up after Kurt Cobain passed away in 1994. Grohl calls it “the dumbest band name ever. I would’ve gone with another name if I’d known our career would last more than a monthand-a-half. I didn’t want people to say, “Oh, that’s the guy from Nirvana.’”
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