valentine's day SXSW: New Trends In Band Names!

Last we checked, the list of confirmed acts for SXSW hovered somewhere around 350. With all bands presumably being notified of their showcase status by tomorrow, that number has probably shot waaaaay up. But we're lazy, and further research sounds frightening, so with that in mind we might as well just use the latest nice big list Austinist has compiled for reference.

Scanning through, it seems some interesting new band-naming trends have emerged. Gone are the salad days of the lupus craze lupus craze, in which I'm referring both to the phenomenon of band names featuring "wolf" (Wolf Parade, AIDS Wolf, Wolf Eyes, We Are Wolves, etc) and that of using repeated words or phrases (Man Man, Proton Proton, Takka Takka, Tap Tap, etc etc). After the jump, check out the latest trends we've identified from the SXSW master list as well as the full list itself...

THE CAPS LOCK TREND - Whether inspired by the marquee-sized fonts of such forebearers as R.E.M. and X (both on the SXSW list below) or simply conniving to attract additional eyeballs in concert listings, MANY BANDS SEEM TO BE USING THE CAPS LOCK BUTTON WHEN CHOOSING THEIR BAND NAMES. BEHOLD:

KXP
The LK
MC/VL
MGMT
N.E.R.D.
OFFICE
PPT
TAB the Band
WHY?
YACHT

The Email Address Trend - The following reads more like a spam-mail list than a collection of bands. A product of Web 2.0? You decide:

detroit7
Dreamend
menwhopause
quartz-head 02
Unholy 2

Three Repeating Words Is The New Two Repeating Words Trend Trend Trend - I'll see your Man Man and raise you the following:

Beat Beat Beat
Die! Die! Die!
Run Run Run

The Kids Are Alright Psuedo-Trend - Not so much a trend when limited to the below SXSW list but definitely within the broader context of such acts as the Cold War Kids and Black Kids:

Cool Kids
No Kids
Kid Dakota (granted, in existence well before any of the other "Kids")

The Death Trend - From the Dead Kennedys to Dead Meadow, rock bands and the D-word have always made nice bedfellows:

Dead in Algiers
Dead Confederate
Deadstring Brothers
Dead To Me
Die! Die! Die!

Special recognition to Die! Die! Die! for being at the forefront of TWO different trends. Now, look at the updated SXSW list below, anything else screaming out "WOLF WOLF WOLF" to you?

AA Bondy
The Acorn
Alamo Race Track
Alex Skolnick Trio
Alina Simone
Aloe Blacc
Alpha Rev
The Anchor
Annuals
A Place to Bury Strangers
Arp
The A-Sides
Ash Grunwald
Astra Heights
Attack in Black
Autokinoton
Avengers in Sci Fi
Awkward Stage Band
Axel Krygier
Baby Shakes
Battlefields
Barara Mason
Bear Hands
Beat Beat Beat
Bella
Billy Bragg
Birdmonster
Birds and Batteries
Birthday Suits
Bjorn Torske
the Black Crowes
Black and White Years
The Black Hollies
Black Joe Lewis
The Black Keys
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Black Mountain
Black Tie Dynasty
The Bleedin Bleedins
Blitzen Trapper
The Blow
Blue Mountain
Bon Iver
Born Ruffians
Bosque Brown
The Botticellis
The Bowerbirds
Brain Police
Breeders
British Sea Power
Built for the Sea
Bun B of UGK
Cadence Weapon
The Cansecos
Carbon/Silicon
Carlis Star
Carolyn Mark
Car Stereo (Wars)
Cary Brothers
Cat Party
Cheveu
the Choir Practice
Chotto Ghetto
Chris Bendt
City and Color
Coathangers
Cold Hot Crash
Colour Revolt
Connie Price and the Keystones
Constantines
The Cool Kids
The Cops
The Crash That Took Me
The Cribs
Cut Copy
Dale Hawkins
Dan Wilson
Daniel Lanois
Darker My Love
Darondo
Daryl Hall
Dead in Algiers
Dead Confederate
Deadstring Brothers
Dead To Me
Debate
Deer Tick
Delta Spirit
Demon's Claws
Destroyer
detroit7
Devotchka
Die! Die! Die!
Dirty on Purpose
Division Day
Dixie Witch
Dizzee Rascal
The DoDos
Dolly Parton
The Donnas
Donny Hue and the Colors
Doug Walker Music
Dreamend
Dokkebi Q
Doug Walker
The Duke Spirit
Eastern Conference Champions
Ed Harcourt
Elephone
El Jesus de Magico
Elvis Perkins
Eugene Mirman
Eugene McGuinness
Evangelicals
Experimental Aircraft
Ezra Furman & the Harpoons
The Fairline Parkway
Fanfario
Fast Computers
The Femurs
The Feral Children
Film School
Firewater
Fishboy
Fleet Foxes
Frightened Rabbit
Future Clouds and Radar
Gallows
Gentleman Jesse
Ghost Buffalo
Giant
Git Some
Glen Reynolds
Goes Cube
Greg Laswell
The Gusto
Ha Ha Tonka
Hanne Hukkelberg
The Hard Lessons
Headlights
Health
Heavenly States
The Heavy
The Henry Clay People
Hey Willpower
The Hilltop Hoods
Holy Fuck
The Hot Rails
The Hourly Radio
Hungry Hill
Ingrid Michaelson
Jandek
Jarboe
JD Thompson
Jennifer Johns
Jens Lekman
Jessie Baylin
Jimi Bianco
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
John Ralston
Joseph Arthur
Joshua Radin
Justin Townes Earle
Kaki King
Karina Nistal
Kate Havnevik
Ketchup Mania
Kid Dakota
Killing California
The Kills
Kim Hiorthøy
Kimya Dawson
Kingdom Of Magic
Kitty, Daisy, and Lewis
KXP
Langhorne Slim
Laura Barrett
Laura Gibson
Lava Children
Le Switch
the Lemurs
Liam Finn
Lightspeed Champion
Lindstsrom
Lions
The LK
The Lonely H
Longwave
Loquat
Love Like Fire
The Lovely Sparrows
Low Red Land
Lykke Li
M. Ward & Zooey Deschanel
Made Out of Babies
Magic Bullets
Mala Rodriguez
Man Man
Mark Pickerel
Mason Proper
Maya Azucena
MC/VL
Meiko
Melissa Young
menwhopause
Meredith Bragg and the Terminals
Meriwether
Mezzanine Owls
MGMT
Mika Miko
Minmae
Mitra
Miz Metro
Monica Blaire
The Monocles
Moon Rats
My Brightest Diamond
The Morning Benders
Mud
Mustangs And Madras
My Morning Jacket
Nada Surf
Nadja
N'Dambi
Necropolis
Neimo
N.E.R.D.
Nicole Atkins
The Night Marchers
No Kids
Nortec
Nouvellas
Nyles Lannon
Ohmega Watts
Old Man River
OFFICE
Orgonne
Ouija Radio
the Pack A.D.
Panda
Panther
Party Garbage
Pato Banton
Paul Kelly
Peelander-Z
The Pendletons
The People's Revolutionary Choir
Petty Booka
Pinstripe
The Pity Party
Plants & Animals
Popup
Port O'brien
Portugal The Man!
PPT
Pretty and Nice
Priscilla Ahn
Prizzy Prizzy Please
Puny Human
Q-Tip
quartz-head 02
Radar Bros.
Ralph "Soul" Jackson
The Raveonettes
R.E.M.
Roadsaw
Robyn
Rocco DeLuca
The Rosewood Thieves
Run Run Run
Russell Taylor
Russian Circles
The Russian Futurists
RX Bandits
Sally Shapiro
Salvador Santana Band
Sam Champion
Sara Bareilles
Sasquatch
Sass Dragons
Saw Wheel
Scissors for Lefty
Scouts Honor
Screamin' Cyn Cyn & the Pons
Sea Wolf
Sean Hayes
Secret Shine
Sex Advice
Shame Club
Shelby Lynne
Shinobu
Shout Out Louds
Shwayze
Sia
Simian Mobile Disco
Slab City
Social Studies
Sodopp
Sofakingdom
$olal
Something With Numbers
Sons & Daughters
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Southeast Engine
The Spinto Band
The Stills
Streaming Wolf Penis
Sugar and Gold
TAB The Band
Tall Firs
Tapes N Tapes
Tech N9ne
Teenage Bottlerocket
The Terrordactyls
These New Puritans
These United States
Tigercity
Tim Williams
Times New Viking
Tiny Animals
Too Many Daves
Trainwreck Riders
Trevor Giuliani
Tub Ring
Tulsa
Tussle
Uffie
Unholy 2
The Valley Arena
Vampire Weekend
Vancougar
Vena Cava
The Von Bondies
Von Iva
The Voom Blooms
Waco Brothers
Wallpaper
Was (Not Was)
The Watershed
Wax Museums
We Are Standard
We Versus The Shark
WHY?
The Weird Weeds
White Shoes & the Couples Company
White Williams
William Fitzsimmons
Wussy
Wye Oak
X
YACHT
Yazarah
Ze Dos Frangos

*Above photo found HERE