How much you want to bet the one on the right is the Dungeon Master? I’m sorry, Name This Band-ers. The actual name of this band is so fitting—so whole-heartedly embracing of their 11-year-old-boy-fantasy miiieu, so firmly and cheerfully committed to the D&D metal aesthetic—that I am afraid you simply won’t be able to top […]
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Name This Band: We’re Just Happy to Be Here Edition
Luciano Piantonni It’s been many moons since we dropped an edition of Name This Band. But when you see a promo photo like this one, it’s time to blow off any and all mothballs. This one’s pretty great, and it should be very easy to guess who these guys actually are—as it seems two of […]
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Name This Band! Casually-Crossed-Legs-While-Standing Edition
It’s time for another personality-driven edition of Name This Band! Here’s a band promo pic that was emailed to us, and it’s a doozy. Each one of these guys looks like he’s angling to be the front man, from the longhair on the left with the Confederate flag emitting from one side of his body, […]
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Name This Band! I-Don’t-Even-Know-What-to-Say-About-This-One Edition
It’s time for another perplexing edition of Name This Band! Here’s a promo pic that showed up in the ol’ Mercury v-bag*. *I’m incredibly sorry at how dirty that portmanteau sounded—it was my attempt to combine the words “virtual” and “mailbag,” and it will never happen again. Now, Name This Band! Leave your funniest, smartest, […]
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Name This Band! Token Albino Edition
It’s time for another dumb edition of Name This Band! Here’s the photo, now name the band in the comments. Be mean/funny/smart/stupid/funny. Actually, just be funny. Jonathan Weiner As always with Name This Band, there is no winner and no prize.
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Name This Band! In Need of a Proactiv Sponsorship Edition
It’s time for another unsettling edition of Name This Band! Here’s a promo pic that came into the ol’ Mercury mailbag. All you have to do is Name This Band! Leave your best/funniest/stupidest/meanest/smartest/worst name in the comments. (As always with Name This Band, there is no winner and no prize.)
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Name This Band: Macular Degeneration Edition
It’s time for another round of Name This Band! Here’s a promo pic of a band that turned up in the Mercury mailbag. Now YOU get to name the band. Go over to End Hits to play!
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Name This Band: Sorta Matching Shirts Edition
It’s time again for another installment of Name This Band! Click over to End Hits to play.
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Name This Band: Ridiculously Long Fingers Edition
It’s time for another round of Name This Band! Hop over to End Hits to play.
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Name This Band: Cross-Generational Edition
It’s the somewhat awaited return of Name This Band! It’s the game that everyone loses, even if you decide not to participate. But if you do decide to participate—and leave a hilarious name for this band in the comments section—you’ll have to jump over to End Hits to play.
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The Pickathon Pumphouse Sessions
Some of the best music at Pickathon doesn’t happen in front of the audience. It happens in the tin, 10-foot-by-10-foot pumphouse that’s tucked away in the woods that surround Pendarvis Farm. Over the course of the (really hot) Pickathon weekend this August, 33 of the performing bands toted their instruments up to the little pumphouse […]
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Name This Band: Face Paint and Accordion Edition
Name This Band returns! There’s a lot going on here: scary face paint, even scarier arm spikes, and (scariest of all) an accordion. Go on, Name This Band in the comments. Bonus points for guessing what they sound like. (Would you guess… screamo showtunes?)