Here we go again: Maybe you’ve noticed this year’s name trend: Whale is the new Bear is the new Crystal is the new Wolf is the new etc. Keep them straight with Heartonastick’s field guide: A-N, O-the rest. Sure to be outdated within three blog days.
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all those bands blow
He says some really nice things about Vulture Whale that are all completely true.
Well it’s good to know that Whale are probably the only band on that list that is worth caring about.
Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe indeed.
hobo humpin slobo babe!!! HAHAHA!!!!!!!!
well they keep sayin’ whale but my name wale
hoes call me mr-never-wear-the-same-thang
I’m still holding out for a ‘squirrel’ revival.
At first I thought this was just an elaborate and hilarious way to promote Freelance Whales (a band I was already sold on), but I’ll definitely check out a few other names on this list.
Whenever someone says a band “will quite possibly change your life” my brain tries to escape from my skull.
If you brain did escape from your skull, that would quite possibly change your life.
and by “change”, you mean “end”
This is excellent. Calling a Noah and the Whale song a “post-Sufjan glee club gangbang” is Western prose at its best.
Thanks for the guide, guys! Somehow, they left out this killer new neofolktronica-gaze post punk-fi band from Bed-Sty that is hella rad:
Deer Wolf-shaped Whales with Heads Covered in Antlers Full of Crystal Radio Bear Fucks.
Become a fan before a blog tells you to!
http://www.myspace.com/DeerWolfshapedWhaleswithHeadsCoveredinAntlersFullofCrystalRadioBearFucks
i thought whale names were gonna catch on years ago with “white whale”. whatever happened to those guys?
and *ahem* whale heart records…
Okay, so maybe I won’t name by band Bunny and the Whale Mask. That’s a Tom Robbins reference.
HAHAHAHA VULTURE WHALE. I saw that band open up for some friends in Macon and they were the worst thing I’ve ever heard.
yeah what the fuck is a “freelance whale?” I’m seconding the squirrel movement.
What about “Whale Vomit”?
Oh, and zombies are the new whale!
Or how about ‘Whale Orgasm’?
Random connections:
The Drums – Drummer
Wavves – Lovvers – The xx(?)
So glad the “fuck” trend is dying…
drummer is spelled with two ms normally
Stick it in yer blowhole, Stereogum!
I agree with a squirrel movement. I had a band once called “Squirril Stomper”. With an ‘i’ and everything. We were better than any of those terrible whale or wolf bands any day. So good. Like Kanye good.
http://www.myspace.com/whalebonewishes
Another to add to the list.
To trendyfuckface….you blow.
Noah and the Whale are excellent.
haven’t heard (or even heard of?) any of these whale bands. i’m still on bears, wolves, crystals, and black bands. when did i fall out of the loop? i swear i was hip a couple of months ago.
also, the only relevant whale in music, to me, is Baby Beluga (via my childhood).
I agree with KJK! who knew the whale movement was happening? although the Mariner’s Revenge Song by the Decemberists does go into detail about a whale…I though it was pretty obscure but now I know it’s just following the whale trend!