Blog: Buzz Bands

[Birthday greetings go out to Matthew Sweet today. And, tonight:] Not a good thing when your band name is more memorable than your music. Portland quartet Starf*cker — who brings its modest dance-pop to the Echo tonight — is doing something about its career-assassinating name, anyway. The band just called upon its fans to participate in a name-change contest (newnameideas@gmail.com, if you are so inspired). I'm thinking something that suggests bright colors. ... Nice to see the Breakestra [whom I wrote about in the Times [...]