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Tiger Please announce name change and first 2012 shows 'the People the Poet' to tour with Charlie Simpson throughout March After an impressive four years which has seen the band release two critically acclaimed releases (2009's 'They Don't Change Under Moonlight' and 2010's 'Seasons' EP), tour the length and breadth of the UK including Download and Sonisphere festivals and garner Radio One airplay, Tiger Please today kick off 2012 with the announcement of their official name change and [...]

Mos Def is changing his name at the end of this year. The new name: Yasiin. In an interview with Suckerfree at "Rock the Bells", Mos Def had this to say about his decision: "I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it. Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's [...]

For a very long time I've hoped to redo this entire site. Anybody that has any ounce of web knowledge knows how stupid it is for me to change everything at this point. My SEO will go out the window, but I've never been here for hits, just the music. Along with the name change, there will be a complete redesign and I'll finally get a real URL. The thing is, when I started this blog it was just for friends and I picked a name in about one minute, but now it's just a terrible and [...]

For a very long time I've hoped to redo this entire site. Anybody that has any ounce of web knowledge knows how stupid it is for me to change everything at this point. My SEO will go out the window, but I've never been here for hits, just the music. Along with the name change, there will be a complete redesign and I'll finally get a real URL. The thing is, when I started this blog it was just for friends and I picked a name in about one minute, but now it's just a terrible and [...]

• Traffic - Hole in My Shoe

Brother formerly known as Brother UK in the U.S. have been forced to change their name to Viva Brother across the world. The name change stems from a legal dispute with another band also named Brother . The band had previously kept the name Brother in the U.K. but had changed it to Brother UK in America. Now the band will be known as Viva Brother throughout the world. Talking about the name change, lead singer Lee Newell said, "A [...]

Photo: Jeremy Charles Lawton's 8Bit Cynics have announced a change in direction and new name, Emory Grey . Download their last song ("Last Song") as 8Bit Cynics below (which name checks Ali Harter ).

So MOKB loves Starfucker , but they have apparently changed their name to Pyramid . Booooo! Discuss. (photo cred : Joshua Bean @ Melophobe ) MP3 : Starfucker - German Love MP3 : Starfucker - Florida MP3 : Starfucker - Medicine [...]

Portland eclectro-pop band Starfucker have decided to change their name - and want fans to help find a replacement. Details of how you can make suggestions below, but first the rationale (as told to the Portland Mercury): "We're changing our name because it just doesn't make sense anymore. We never thought Starfucker would make it as far as it has, and [...]

• Starfucker - Pop Song

When it comes to an aspiring MC's career, a solid rap name is just important their actual talent. Coming up with that proper moniker, however, isn't always so easy. In a world were reinforcement rules, the descriptive variability can be taken so many ways. Dumbed down or desperately deep. Dickies or leotard Levis. Big or Lil.' Kid or Man. Hot or cold. Government or given. There are so many choices, but technically, it doesn't really even matter. It's not about what it says or means, as much it's about how well it can be pushed to the people. [...]

Starfucker FOREVER ::: photo by Josh Lovseth Sigh. The cost of success and having your songs on commercials is that a band name with the fuck featured prominently just doesn't work. With that in mind, Portland's electro-pop Starfucker are on the look out for a new name with the help of their fans. Here's what the [...]

The Muggabears are now Grooms . From their blog : Hello Everybody, We were Muggabears, now we're Grooms. Is it a verb? Is it a noun? Not telling. We've also put up a new song off our new album. The album is called Rejoicer . And the song is called "Dreamsucker". We hope you like it. - Gabi, Emily, Travis

Aside from the stars and bars, Brazil , I mean Brasil, is where my allegiances lie. The women are by far the prettiest, and the futbol is far superior. But they also have another thing going for them. Down with the letter 'Z!' Based on this groundbreaking photo alone, I'm willing to drop the letter z completely. I always found it completely unnecessary. I'm ready to segway completely from z's to s's as if this were the y2k turnover. Easy and painless. Pizza-> Pissa - you'll still end [...]

Just caught up with Joel North of Sleep Whale, which, at this point is still probably best known as the ambient instrumental Denton act fromerly known as Mom, to talk about his band's name change. Wh... Continue reading "Sleep Whale's Joel North Explains His Band's Name Change" >

Maybe you've seen the above clip before? It's the video for "Sleep Whale" from one of my favorite Denton bands, Mom. Nice, right? I think so. But nice enough to become the basis for the band's entire... Continue reading "Mom Changes Its Name To Sleep Whale? Looks That Way." >

Photo: Jeremy Charles After months of searching for a new band name to avoid legal trouble, Black Swan has reinvented themselves as No Kind of Rider . The former Tulsa band finally has their feet planted in Portland, with several shows lined up in the coming months. DOWNLOAD: No Kind of Rider - "Clearcoat"

• No Kind of Rider - Clearcoat » No Kind of Rider - Clearcoat.mp3

This video is about 2 or 3 weeks old, but I really like it and despite my urging, none of my friends have found this and watched it. So, check it out where Kanye is so moved by his own tennis shoes hitting the runway that he changes his name to Martin Louis The King, Jr. (address him as such).

Urban Tulsa Weekly 's current issue features Tulsa band Dead Sea Choir (formerly Straight Lines) on its cover. The cover photo was taken by awesome Tulsa photographer Jeremy Charles . Sink or Swim With a new, fine-tuned album, Dead Sea Choir keeps afloat with tenacity and adaptability BY JOSH KLINE A certain amount of audacity is expected from all musicians. Everyone anticipates arrogance, childishness and delusions of grandeur out of even the most [...]

Luma is now Fires of Atlas . On our first EP, we let ourselves be too limited by our influences and by conventions of normal pop structure. Now we feel like we've found ourselves, and we're just writing music that we love. From the Oklahoma Gazette : Fires of Atlas sounds decidedly more experimental than Luma ever was. Gone are the pop anthems with sing-along choruses, which have been replaced with morose pianos and somber, darker melodies. The group will release the [...]

Kunek is out. Other Lives is in. From their blog : We have decided to mix things up a bit. We now have a new name, and have completed the transition from Kunek to Other Lives. We hope you like it as much as we do. We recently finished making our new record, the first to be released under the Other Lives moniker, which was produced and recorded by Joey Waronker . Today we posted two tracks from the sessions, "End Of The Year" [...]

Local new wave revivalist band Mahteo has changed its name to Kill the Dance Floor . Even though The NuWave Republic EP, the band's debut, was released just this past February, founding member Rene "Micky" Espinoza said the name had to change: "People used to think that Mahteo was either a metal band. Or they couldn't even pronounce it." Along with the name change, the band has also added a new drummer (Paddric Ryan) and a new keyboardist (Bill Young). Despite all the changes, Espinoza insists the band's sound won't divert [...]