Set Yr Sights: 20 Bands Named After Places
Here, for no apparent reason, is a collection of bands named after places. Architecture in Helsinki I never knew the city was renowned for its flair for buildings. I guess it's catchier than Architecture in Slough. Beirut A New Mexican who named his group after a Lebanese city and plays eastern European, French and Mexican-influenced folk. Somebody has identity issues. [...]
- Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races
- Arctic Monkeys - Bigger Boys & Stolen Sweethearts
- At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissor
- Balkan Beat Box - Bulgarian Chicks
- Beirut - Mount Wroclai
- Bruce Peninsula - Shutters
- Calexico - Quattro (World Drifts In)
- Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone
- Iran - I Can See the Future
- Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
- Mission of Burma - That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate
- Mull Historical Society - The Final Arrears
- Phoenix - Lisztomania
- Songs: Ohia - Almost Was Good Enough
- The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism
- The Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP
- The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt This Place
- United Steel Workers of Montreal - For Love & Your Mother's Sake
- Warsaw Village Band - Four Horses
- Whiskeytown - Too Drunk to Dream




















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