The Oregonian‘s coverage of yesterday’s Red & Black anarchist press conference includes this fantastic photo that can really be nothing but a publicity shot for Portland’s newest hit indie-rockers.
- Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian
There you go, folks, name that band!
Note: commenter cyoung has already suggested “Anarchist Pouty-Faces.”
Update 3:53pm: We will select the best names for a contest/poll tomorrow (with a prize!). Keep on submittin’!
“The December Fists.”
“Anarchist Press Conference”
“Places You May Never Go”
the no pos
“The Police”
Posture
Fuzz Bait
“4 Jerks and a Squirt”
“Jaded,” as in the Operation Ivy song (and the shirt she is wearing).
The Baristas
The Frown Club.
The Prissy Pussy Posse?
Everclear
Apathy Anonymous
Feh, Police
You Say Bacon! We Say Die!
Backed Up Banfield
Rage Against The Washing Machine
“Fey Might Be Giants”
System of a Frown
“Pout Against the Machine”
“The Entire Lyrics of Operation Ivy’s ‘Yellin’ In My Ear,’ Ironically Applied Against Ourselves (Screechy, Dogmatic Fucks That We Are)”
fart sound
You’ll Know Us From The Smell We Leave Behind
French Press
“Daft Punks”
The Ineffectuals
(Though mars’ suggestion gets my vote)
Fauxhemian Bourgeoisie
The Llama Llama Ding Dongs
The Pink & Black
Pinchers of Loaf
Raoul Vaneigem Overdrive
Kool & the Gang!
White People
The Wimpy Wobblies
The Hippycrites
My vote goes to “Anarchist Press Conference”.
That’s fucked.
The James chasse incident
The Asshaterists
Kona Douche
There’s No Such Thing As Vegan Cocaine
Meh.
“YAAAWN”
Marxist-Leninist Fashion Statement?
I don’t have a band name suggestion, but I thought it was worth commenting on anarchy girl’s striking resemblance to Davey Havoc…. http://imgur.com/ZMQrL.png
Original Angsters
The Bullshitvik Revolution
One fat chick and four losers.
Or The Hot Topics
the taints
The Go-Nowheres
Tha Baristocrats
Anarchists Unite
“Shit, please”
The Shitty Kitties.
or
“i stole my Shoes from the HOmeless”
We Asked for Foam
Minus the Smile
Scowl! At The Disco
Clap Your Hands Say Meh
Behead the Parfait: No Lords Shall Live
…And You Will Know Us When We Finally Grow Our Dreads.
The Weepies
The Anomie.
The Soy Protein Puppets
Shirlee Mercury and the New Sound of Beating a Dead Horse
No Cop Go
Hundreds of Millions of Dead Cops
Pout
The Mallrats
Ironic Maiden
And you will know us by a trail of dog shit.
Jokey-o Police Club
Trust the Fund not the Cops
Atari Tempeh Riot?
Wolf Vegan
At Least We’re Not Furries
The Neverlaids.
The Sophisticunts
The soy choriznos
My favorites are Baristacrats & fart sound.
NWA: Nitwits with Attitude
The Just Moved From California Raisins
The Tempeh-Tations
Poop Soup
The Herp
The Dandy Abhor Alls
Anyone want to take a bet on which of these fake band names will be playing at the Doug Fir first?
Stool
Emma Goldman’s Afterbirth
deep fried hampster nuts
The Smelly Bits
Banana Republican and his Bored Baristocrats
White Tripe
or
The Red & Black and Blues
So, is this a contest? It should be. Tell Humpy to offer up some Merc percs and begin the voting.
Smilin’ Johnny Pink-Shirt And The Rainbow Kisses
Meh Meh Mehs
ᐖ and the Unpronounceables
asshat thugs
the Fashion Police
The Breakfast Tea Club
The Ron Frashour Power Hour
Chief Reese’s Pieces
Fudge Lusters
Taking Safety For Granted
Gnarfle the Garthag
Race Traitor II
Crustamer Feedback
Let’s You And Him Fight
Bakunin’s Shame
The Scofflaws
No Coffee For Porky
Home Away From Homeless
Chaos Out Of Order
The I Can’t Believe We Don’t Eat Butters
We Were Promised Rebellion
Serpicool
Cuntnugget
En-Oh-Five-Oh
Inconvenienced Kennedys.
@Suburban Porn King:
This is now a contest. There will a prize and all, details tomorrow. Get going!
Seigneur’s Citizens
Insane Frown Posse
Avoids Eye Contact
Highly Ironic Crime Spree
The Thin Red & Black Line
The Meek Stink
Gang of Five with “I Loathe a Man in a Uniform.”
Alienated Protector
Pabst Smear
Fascist Beatdown
The Corporate Pigs
We Fought the Law and Cornelia Seigneur Won
Pink Floyd Taser Light Show
“We’ve Been Through A Lot, OK Guys?”
The Barf Bags
The Dildos
Three And A Half Men feat DJ Squatter’s Rights
Iron & Whine
Naysayer
Don’t tell me what to do
In fund we Trust
Hate the Player
Victim Mentality
Misguided Animosity
“The Jeff Gianola Experience”
No Use For A Bath
Going Under
“There’s a Morrissey Pun Here Somewhere”
Pinky and the Muffintops
Stinky Muffin(tops)
The Upper Crust
The Grudgetones
This Press is a Pipe Bomb
I have nothing to offer after “System of a Frown”. That is just toooooooooooooooooooooooooo goooooood.
Big Fucking Mistake
Zerzan’s Lament
Chided By Voices
Cognitive Dissonance
She & Him & I’m Not Really Sure
Frowngarden
The Pensive Aggressive All Stars!
The Pensive-Aggressive All-Stars!
The Uncomfortables
Oops. Had some problems w/ the thingy there.
Anarchist Jr.
Lift Your Skinny Jeans Like Antennas to Heaven
The Trouble With Anarchy
Cootie and the Blowhards
Joyless Division
whaaaaaaaaaaaam
Hail Seitan!
Little Miss Can’t Be Wrongs: An Anarchist Tribute to the Spin Doctors.
We Won’t Feed No Stinkin’ Badges
Collective Sole
Welfare Anarchists
Watch List
This picture and thread is probably the best thing I’ve seen all year.
5-years away from a desk job
Mommy’s debit card
Depress Mode
Fountains of Wan
Mr. Bins and the Hot Topic Shoplifters.
New Order Up!
This (Espresso) Machine Kills Fascists
Architecture in Hellastinki
Neutral Soymilk Hotel
Butthurt McGirt & the Frownies (Ft. DJ Carhartt)
Intense Frown Posers
“We Are Thoughtful and The Balance Problem”
You Will Know Us By Our Footwear
No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem!
KMFDM: Keeping Machiattos From Da Man
I dropped the soap.
The Other White Meet
Future Sell-Outs
Anal Pussy Balls or A.P.B. for short, get it?
Dick Schitz and the Dipshits
The Jesus Vegans
Pinkie Poindexter and the Parlor Pussies
Vegan Whine
The Professed Oppressed
Anarchy, Inc.
Wayne and the Wobblies
Arrest Me
I <3 Pigs
Future Republicans
Muffin Topples and the Hot Bean Embargo
Losercore Jr.
Here are my top 4:
The Nonathletic Brood
The Geek Squad
Not Hip Enough for the A/V Club
Why Bother?
Superiority Complexes
or
Unfounded Superiority Complexes
My Mom Doesn’t Live Here
The Importance of Being Earnest
Navel Academy
Chumbawumba
To: FU
Hawthorne Cougar Meloy-Camp & Hash
“I Hate You, Dad”
Johnny Cashew Cheese
Last Year’s Tramp Stamp
The Tallest Burning Man On Earth
New Found Glory Holes
The Schumachedelic Furs
Demitasse of Discontent
Can’t Spell Anarchy Without… Actually We Can’t Even Spell Anarchie Because We Don’t Believe In Y…
Reediohead
This thread and a pot of coffee are the only things keeping me going today.
Perturbed
Shuffly Means
COPS: Collection Of Petty Symbols
Piggy Stop
Freedom of Espresso
Waiting for Cocaine
Don’t You Oppress Me
Crisis of Nonconformity
Quintuple Depresso
Five-o Take Your Joe and Go
Stalingrad School
stalled in grad school
the stallin’ grads
nutritional yeast infection
Tradegy
Assfactor 5
The Pitter Patter Putter Patrol
Sir Bitch-a-Lot
The Will Radishes
The Neverlaughs
Everything is Offensive
No, YOU’RE the Oppressor!
Recursive Joke Butts
Dereliction of Diner
Rent Paying Squatters
“Say What You Like About the Tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at Least It’s An Ethos”
Profiler Profiler
Subversion Au Lait
Marmot Bathwater
(Wow @Fruit Cup, I was just about to post this one but posted my other one first)
Yah, thought of it on the max on my way home. Hehe!
The Ineffectual Unaffected
Decaffeinated Dissent
Trusty Fundamentals
2 Police Da Police
Retardocracy
Affected Activism
/dev/nüll
The Cafe Ire
Shoegazer’s Burden
You Love Zombies Too?
Cop and Speeder (Heatmiser cover band)
Copping is for Heroin
Scott.
No No Not
Gutter Fabulous
Hobosensual
The Matt Davis Nightmare
Vulture Grub
Someone Still Loves You Leon Trotsky
The prize for this should be a gift certificate to the Red and Black Cafe, with “WINNER OF THE PORTLAND MERCURY NAME THE ANARCHIST BAND CONTEST” emblazoned across the top. Then we’ll see who has the balls to use it to order an extra-foamy latte.
Goodwill Afterparty
CamoHobo
“WINNER OF THE PORTLAND MERCURY NAME THE ANARCHIST BAND CONTEST”
Klatch and the An-archies
Miranda and the Rights
The Mount St. Helens We Fought for the North Vietnamese Funtimes Band
anemic
Insane Frown Posse
The Precinct Fire
“smug life”
“anarchists club for baristas”
“future republicans”
Goodwill for Clothes, Bad Will for Cops
crypto-conformity
Vapid Apathy
We Killed The X-Ray Cafe
Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.
I’m ‘batin’!!!
The Morgan Freegans
Yippie Culture Jam
ZZ Cop
Anarchist’s Look Book
Steal This Soy Latte
The Unfresh Fellows
With this and Worse. Night. Ever. Your stock is rising Mercury!
Middle Class Warfare
Porno for Proletariats
39th Avenue Bridge Song
Ball Sweat Hair Product
Lake Oswego and the Infinite Sadness
Smelliot Smith
Vegan Chili Shit Stain
Oops, I Came On Your Zine
Shitia Lunch
Punk$
Dude, Where’s My Dog?
Government Bleu Cheese
The Wallflower Percolators
The Mopeds
Scourge of Starbucks’ Windows
The Hot Topicals
The Cop Outs
Fat Joan and the Four Slims
(my favorites from above are The Professed Oppressed and the Sophisticunts)
Keyser Söze Chiefs
Stynx
wolfsnaketigervipercobra lion
My Kombucha Romance
the go getters
And You’ll Know Us By The Trail Of Sandwiches
The Black Blockheads
The Black Blocheads
Blitzen Poser
Anarchist Discussion Circle
(Un)Grateful Dead
Pretentious, Contrived, Banal and Reynolds Wrap
Faggy, Moody, Dummy and Plumpy. (FMD&P)
The Entitled.
The Studio Apartments
The Most Awkward Orgy Ever
Talkin’ Loud, Sayin’ Nothin’
The Opinionated
The Opinionated Idiots
The Clueless Opinionated
The Baseless Opinionated
Broken Social Contract.
There, I think I’m done. Wait…
Frightened by Rabbit.
Now I’m done.
Precious Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
The Fixxie
Vegans in Furs
Inconvenience tha’ Police
Slamdance Cosmopolis
The Miscreants’ Parents
Worchestershirevillefuckoff Sauce
The GIT R DUNNES
The Accomplished
Unicorn Philosophy
Magyck Faeries and the Wimmin
Carmen Electramarxist Principles
Mouth Fulla Mocha
Stand Aside, Warcriminals!
the oily whities
The Herstory of Funk
Skaffeine Reich
Wikileaks
Grizzly McMicrophone and the Trust Fund Muppets
“Bought the t-shirt”
The Don’t Taze Me Bro’s
The Roommates
Butthole Couch Surfers
The Sunset Highwaymen
Tempeh Comes Alive
The Latchkey 5
Razor Ramon Mercader
Brewers Yeast Infection
Middle Class Ass Acne
Mirthless Sacks Of Shit
Nightstick Gloryhole
Officer Humphreys & The Bean Bag Girls
Billy Dee Williams and the Jerry Curls
Govern this, Bitch
Noam and the Chomskies
A People’s Herstory of Funk
John Limpdick Langley and The we got bullied in grade school and suffered other negative imprinting during our formative years which shaped us into deluded, myopic, bitter, extremist assholes with self-loathing, poor hygiene and a penchant for eating our own boogers.
John Micropenis Langley and the not likely to get laid tonight posse
The beautiful Bolsheviks
Gag me with Anarchy
The Mystery at Sadness Lake
The Clark County Commissioners
Anti-Balls
Can’t believe no one has done Veguns N’ Roses yet.
“anarchist business model”
Yamhill Otter Jug Band
Recursive Misanthropy
Midlife Sellouts (not to be confused with Midlife Airplane)
Ballsy While Anonymous
Us and That Homeless Guy
Assaulted by Horse
Adam Gnade and the Confederate Yankees.
The Poop Stain 5
I’m a little late to the game, but some inspiration from my ipod:
Greasy Hair Supply
Buena Vegan Sandwich Club
Clap Your Hands and Say Pig
Fountains of Pain
Tool & The Crusty Gang
Mates Against the Capitalist State
Fallen Arches
Sad John and the Happy Endings
Bread and Lack
Confirmation Bias
Going Commando
The Shrugs
Say Wha???
Corporate Culture
Bearded Birds of Yesterlore
They See Us as They Want To See Us
Macchiatovellianism
William Godwin’s Law
The Coffeemarket Affair
Aunt Flo and the Panty Bunchers
Ball Sack and Vanzetti
Smoking Section
Fisted By Irony
The Masked & Reeking
Crouching Vagrant Hidden Spray Paint
The Squats
Property Is Theft
The Provoking Reactions
Publicity Stunt Backfire
Unkempt
Popo Nono feat DJ Squatters Rights
The Inane Assclown Posse
Rage Against The Very System That Enabled Us To Open This Business In The First Place
Capitalist Anaristocrats
Let’s get to the vote already!
Rage Against My Zine
Le Tazed Sans Le Boeuf
Tre Arrow Short-bus
Shocked By Monkeys
The Butterfaces
Let me just add that the first album from Navel Academy will be aptly named: We Got the Fuzz Out.
Horseface Killahs
The Don’t Tase Me Mocha Bros
“The Liberal Arts Degrees”
“I buy my clothes and put them on while blind folded”
The Fucking Idiots.
Buzz Kill
Stylish Ineptitude
the scuzzies
The pic is quite evocative:
The Wingless Flies
The Puddle Gods
The Sinkholes
The Merriment
Evolution Fail
Mine all start with a “D”
Douchebag Dialectic
Decafka
The Dipshits
Cop Luv
“Pig Out”