What's in a (band) name?
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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The Dollyrots, Ouija (WEE- jee) Radio, Vampire Weekend, Birds and Batteries. Since the 1960's it seems that bands have tried to one-up each other with quirky names.
Next Generation Radio's Roxanne Bower (BAU-er) reports on how some bands get noticed in a music industry bursting with wanna-be's
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Piece Description
The Dollyrots, Ouija (WEE- jee) Radio, Vampire Weekend, Birds and Batteries. Since the 1960's it seems that bands have tried to one-up each other with quirky names. Next Generation Radio's Roxanne Bower (BAU-er) reports on how some bands get noticed in a music industry bursting with wanna-be's
Broadcast History
KUT added this piece to a special podcast broadcast on it's HD channel in March 2008
Transcript
Bower/What?s in a Name?
3/13/08
[Flosstradamus Music
]
R&B musicians and DJ's Josh young AKA J2K and Curt Cameruci (kam-uh-RUE-chee) make up the group Flosstradamus (floss-truh-DAHM-us) The two mix beats to keep the crowds dancing. Cameruci explains where Flosstradamus comes from.
Flosstradamus/Curt Cut 1: So yeah the nineties like the whole like word like FLOSSIN? came out like you know wearing fly gear and stuff like that so like around then I think it might have been like closer to like 2000 like 98 that's when the conjunction came together of Flosstradamus so its like we?re seeing the future keeping it fresh, fly for the nineties, you know for the ladies. (0:17)
Band members sometimes struggle to come up with a name. David Uskovich (YOU-skuh-vitch) is a lecturer in media history at the University of Texas at Austin.
Uskovich Cut 1: You'v...
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The Dollyrots, Ouija (WEE- jee) Radio, Vampire Weekend, Birds and Batteries. Since the 1960's it seems that bands have tried to one-up each other with quirky names. Next Generation Radio's Roxanne Bower (BAU-er) reports on how some bands get noticed in a music industry bursting with wanna-be's
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