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* [[Aliens of London]] - British nerd rock.
** [[Aliens in Cardiff]] - A Welsh tribute band for [[Aliens of London]].
* [[Alien Sky]] - Symphonic Ambient band from Texas formed from members of a high school astronomy club. They use melodic guitar and synthesizer combined with florid lyrics and vocals to tell stories about life in the [[The Future]]. Their singer is an amateur science fiction writer who writes all the lyrics. Currently, they're putting the finishing touches on the ''[[Casual Interstellar Travel]]'' saga about the human colonization of space consisting of the [[Concept Album|concept albums]] ''[[Faster
* [[All Men Are Perverts]] - Riot Grrrrl
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]] - Electronic band that only makes remixes of [[Engrish]] from video games. Their first two singles, "(I! Garland! Will) KNOCK YOU ALL DOWN!" and "You Spoony Bard", became [[YouTube]] sensations, with over 50 million views each. Their career came to an abrupt end after somebody set up them the bomb, killing two members and a light technician.
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* [[Archive Panic]] - One dude who makes experimental music like the Residents. Ever since 1967, he's released at least twenty albums a month, not to mention the number of bootlegs, singles, live albums, mixtapes and compilations...
* [[Ascended Glitch]] - A two-man epic glitchstep band.
* [[Ascended Meme]] - A [[Weird Al]] sytle band that chooses a meme and writes a song about it (songs that are already memes are covered). Hit singles include ''[[Dawn of War|Our Enemies Hide In Metal Boxes]]'' and ''[[Bio Shock|Nothin' like a Fistfulla Loitnin']]''. [[Once an Episode|One song]] in an album is [[Overused Running Gag|always]] ''[[
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] - Emo+Death Metal+Children's rock. Each song starts out dark, gets darker, then becomes trivial.
* [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence]] - The s-l-o-o-o-w-e-s-t and DARKEST prog metal you will ever hear. The band members play "live" concerts, in quotation marks: all the lights are turned off and the band members are behind the curtains.
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** They weren't allowed to do music for [[Brutal Legend]]'s Tainted Coil faction because they gave the dev team nightmares.
** I want to make a comic about this. Dibs.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]] - Hard rock. Well known for their enormous amounts of drums and energetic, shouted singing style. Currently on tour with [[Hot
* [[Bomb
* [[Bottomless Pits]] - Death Metal band who hold the record for the lowest tuning still audible by humans (Also they sing about caves a lot...)
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]] - Country/R&B/Punk/Emo crossover band.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cloudcuckoolanders]] - A band whose music style is [[Mix and Match Musical Genres|almost impossible to pin down to one style]]. Their lyrics tend to have a lot of [[Gratuitous Japanese|very]] [[Gratuitous German|random]] [[Gratuitous Spanish|and]] [[Gratuitous Greek|badly]] [[Altum Videtur|translated]] [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign|foreign]] [[Blind Idiot Translation|words and phrases]] as well as [[Speaking Simlish|outright gibberish]]. Heavily influenced by the style of [[wikipedia:Polysics|Polysics]].
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]] - Self Demonstrating <s>Article</s> Band. Plays heavy metal and barely goes two lines without swearing.
* [[The
* [[Colony Drop]] - Arena Rock.
* [[Combat Sadomasochist]] - Technical death metal meets breakcore. Have a [[Strange Girl|spooky]], [[Cute and Psycho|possibly insane]] female vocalist with a penchant for [[Careful With That Axe|screaming like a maniac in concert]].
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* [[Contemplate Our Navels]] - An otherwise-good ambient progressive band whose overly abstruse lyrics turn off all but the most philosophically-minded listeners.
** Or a never-released album by King Crimson that was meant to be recorded in 1974.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]] - Quite fringe but in reality very good. Reason for niche appeal is the fact their songs are nothing but rants about bad science in media put to music.
* [[Companion Cube]] - [[Tropers/De Vos|This Troper]] is setting up a punk-ska band making songs about the half-life 'verse with this name. If any Tropers play the trumpet, give me a call.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]- a band fronted by a retired eighty something grandfather, who goes by "Cool Old Guy" as a stage name and does almost everything that musicians half his age can do, but better! The other members of the band are his teenage grandchildren and their friends, who let him play a few soings with them just to be nice, but even they were blown away by his talents.
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* [[Crazy Prepared]] - [[Rap Rock|Rap-rock]] group with an 80s punk influence that are infamous for actually playing "Freebird" when audience members shout it. All members are schizophrenic Boy Scouts, just so the name won't be meaningless.
* [[Creator Breakdown]] - An emo band that mostly sing songs about problems in their lives. Ended up becoming infamous for the [[Harsher in Hindsight]] after the lead singer committed suicide.
* [[Crisis Crossover]] - A supergroup formed by members of [[Green Lantern Ring]], [[Rogues Gallery]], [[Nineties Anti
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] - Funk rock, Skunk Anansie style, with lazy basslines and killer riffs.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] - A band which records new material rarely, but is widely agreed to have released some of the greatest and most awe inspiring music of all time. Have been known to play music in every genere, but especially partial to soaring rock anthems and half hour classical jawdroppers.
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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Pretty much the [[Perspective Flip]] of [[Apocalyptic Log]]. Songs start out dark, and end good.
* [[Easy Evangelism]] - An incredibly narcissistic Christian rock band that is convinced that their music is so good that it makes people want to convert on the spot. In reality, their music makes the ''[[High School Musical]]'' soundtrack sound like an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
* [[E
** Not specifically under that name, but math rap does exist. And it exists ''well.''
* [[Eldritch Abomination]] - progressive rock band that makes use of creepy ambience interspersed with metal-tinged heaviness.
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* [[Exalted Torturer]]: A death metal/gorn band with lyrics centered around actual atrocities.
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]- American rock band who spend their spare time trying to predict the time when the world will end, and then write songs about their attempts.
* [[Extended Gameplay]] - Band formed by a bunch of nerds for a Battle of the Bands, which they somehow won. Later split off into [[Playable Epilogue]] and [[New Game
** Alternately, your typical trashy metal band, who often look like they're having seizures on stage.
* [[Erection Rejection]] - a band that plays spoofs of love songs.
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* [[Fission Mailed]] - An experimental band, most of their songs switch style so often it seems like several songs cut up and randomly blended together. Combined with their lyrics the whole thing amounts to a [[Mind Screw]].
** Clearly, by this description, Fission Mailed is fronted by [[Mike Patton]].
* [[
* [[Five-Man Band]] - Another Meta.
** A band of five, who play rock that no one notices.
* [[Five-Bad Band]] - A punk-metal band that is notorious for trashing hotel rooms and being rude to fans, in addition to writing songs all about committing crimes and other such things.
* [[Five
* [[
* [[The Simpsons|The Flaming Cobra Sugar Cellar]] - Rock band; considered good by most people but [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|despised by those who knew them when they were "indie" now that they've supposedly "sold out."]] Their style and trademark surreal lyrics have, of course, gone unchanged.
* [[Franchise Zombie]] - A once successful hard rock band who has been forced to churn out records due to [[Executive Meddling]]. Most of their lyrics now deal with thinly veiled stabs at their oppressors.
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* [[Heavy Metal Umlaut|Heavy Metal Umlauts]] - [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Heavy metal. With umlauts.]]
* [[Hero With Bad Publicity]] - A rock band trying to go mainstream.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] - A parody band made up largely of professional voice actors performing under assumed stage names and personalities.
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]] - J-pop influenced garage band whose members are in their early teens.
* [[High
* [[High School Rejects]] - Three teenage nerds singing about, well, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|being high-school rejects.]]
* [[Hijacked By Jesus]] - Alt-metal rock group that used to be a Christian rock band till most of them left in disgust after the lead singer lost his faith.
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* [[Home Page]]-A peaceful adult alternative group that sings comforting songs about home and family.
* [[Horny Vikings]]: A wannabe heavy metal band full of nerdy high schoolers, except for the bassist, who is a beefy football player. Because of his size, the other members force him to dress up as [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]] at their gigs ([[Suspiciously Specific Denial|which definitely aren't PTA meetings]]).
* [[Hot
* [[Ho Yay]]: Bubblegum pop boy band. Instead of love songs, their music generally focuses on extolling close male friendship. First album cover features the band members in their boxers, having a pillow fight.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: J-Pop/Metal cross. Their only known video before being annihilated by copyright lawyers replaced the male backup singer with [[Macross|Skull One]] and the other band members with an [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Aevestalis]] on guitar and the [[Gurren Lagann]] on drums. The female lead remained unchanged.
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* [[Idiot Ball]] - Pessimistic punk group.
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]] - A geeky indie band that is legendary for their inexplicably persistent mediocrity; The singer is perpetually out of key, the guitarist botches chord progressions on a regular basis, and the drummer is constantly missing beats.
* [[Incendiary Exponent]] - Started by some of the old members of [[Hot
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] - Parodies Disney-sponsored bands, keeping the same cheery pop feel. All their songs are full of double entendres and dirty jokes.
* [[Informal Eulogy]] - A pop "punk" band who's had a hit or two with teen girls, they think they're ironic and relevant, but in reality they just suck. But as you know, YMMV.
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* [[Lady of War]] - An all-girl power metal band, with the [[Face of the Band|lead singer]] being a [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|striking]] [[Nightwish (Music)|ex-opera soprano]]. Thematic similarities in their lyrics to [[Manowar]] have been noted.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] - Sings about breaking up with girlfriends and forgetting about them. Alternatively, could be an album name.
* [[Last
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] - Comedy/parody. They cram their songs as full of references as they can. The highlight of a LFC concert is seeing which character the lead singer dresses as. <s> [[Indiana Jones]]</s> ''Montana Smith'' seems to be his favorite.
* [[The Last DJ]] - Stage name of a [[Small Name, Big Ego|DJ with an overblown ego]] who refuses to bow to demands. Currently busking.
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* [[Lolicon]] - Really weird songs that seem to fit no genre, with nude pre-teens making up the entire group.
* [[Looks Like Cesare]] - Deathrock borrowing a musical page from Alien Sex Fiend, with their stage image relying on the campiness of early horror films.
* [[Loud of War]] - [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Rated "M" for Manly]] heavy metal.
* [[Lovecraft Lite]] - A power metal band formed by the bassist and the drummer of [[Cosmic Horror]] after they quit over creative disagreements with the rest of the band.
* [[Love Dodecahedron]] - Rather emo, sing about unrequited love a lot, most of the band/managers/roadies/etc are in more than one relationship.
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* [[Mad Oracle]] - Five Cthulhu Mythos fans who play a strange mix between classic rock, techno and classical music.
* [[Madness Mantra]] - Over-the-top screamo with disturbing yet repetitive lyrics.
* [[TV Tropes Made of Win Archive]]- Hard rockin' 'bout the Internet.
* [[MacGuffin Girl]] - Five guys in ripped t-shirts who do punk covers of old "Archies" songs
* [[Magnificent Bastard]] - An egomonaical gorup that somehow manages to win platinum sales.
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* [[Necro Non Sequitur]] - Blackened death metal. Well known for their [[Word Salad Lyrics]].
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]] - [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]].
* [[New Game
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]] - Pornogrind supergroup containing former members of Nightmare Fuel and Fetish Fuel.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]] - Some kind of metal-punk hybrid. Who may choose to always play the chord progressions of the 1989 PBS ident, before playing a power chord, where the last of the ident's chords would be, that leads into or begins their song.
** [[Nightmare Fuel]] - The remaining members of Nightmare Fuel after dumping their dead-weight lead singer. Their first album was recorded before they found a new one, so it's mostly instrumentals, and the few songs with lyrics, are either sung by a different band member each time or, in one case, shuttles between members. One of those instrumentals is their creepy metal cover of the 1989 PBS ident alone. Their second album was all covers; by that time, they'd picked up a lead singer with a really weird falsetto. Became [[Nightmar Fuel]] when the remaining members begin experimenting with Throbbing-Gristle-esque industrial and noise. With another cover of the 1989 PBS ident to boot. Do not listen to after the sun is down if you enjoy being able to sleep.
* [[Night of the Living Mooks]] - Hardcore goth, with plenty of [[Narm]]-filled lyrics. They occasionally "sample" the falsetto from the band above.
* [[Nineties Anti
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] - a punk band whose lyrics would contain a lot of humor in the form of semi-obscure geek subculture references.
** Alternatively, an experimental band that fuses (sometimes contradictary) genres seemingly at random, and yet is still increadibly awesome in spite of (or maybe because of) this fact. Ninja, Pirate, Zombie, and Robot costumes are optional.
* [[Nipple
* [[Nobody Poops]] - A mix of techno and orchestral, going for epic sci-fi so hard they fall into [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]] - [[Lyrical Dissonance|but the lyrics]] are about [[Most Writers Are Human|humanity's failures of imagination]].
* [[No Export for You]] - An all-male trio who had a J-Pop/Electronica style and ended up being a huge hit in Japan. However, their label decided not to release their music anywhere else, deciding the music would not do well in other countries. The band tried to protest to get their music in other regions, but were quickly shunted off their label and replaced by [[Bad Export for You|a new band who plays off-key covers of their songs.]] The company decided to take the band's idea and sell the music in other countries, however the new band did not perform quite as well.
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* [[Noodle Incident]] - An obscure indie rock band with a heavy progressive influence.
* [[Not Wearing Tights]] - Comedy duo or trio who sing about pop culture.
* [[The Nth Doctor]] - A comedic ''[[
* [[Nubile Savage]] - Bongos, vocals, and occasionally some horns. They are all sexy, especially the singer.
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] - Indie band from Indiana. They met while interning at the BMV in Indianapolis one summer; when they found themselves all working at West Lafayette City Hall upon returning to Purdue that fall, they decided to form a band. They dress in businesswear (the two guys in shirt-and-tie getups, the women in conservative dresses). Their signature song, "Application Denied," consists of the lead singer fantasizing about rejecting [[Sadist Teacher|a hated teacher]]'s driver's license renewal.
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* [[Planet Eris]] - Discordian rock.
* [[Planetville]]: A [[Zeerust]]-filled '60s pop band.
* [[Playable Epilogue]] - The "[[War Craft]]" half of [[Extended Gameplay]]. Ever since [[Elves Versus Dwarves]] took them into a grudge match over the less-than-flattering [[Shout
* [[Played for Laughs]] - A band that only performs covers of other bands. And by perform we mean misplay and fill it with hilarious [[Mondegreen|mondegreens]]. Many bands stiuplate in their contracts not to let them use their songs as it [[Hilarious in Hindsight|makes their songs hard to take seriously afterwards]].
* [[Police Brutality]] - A political punk band that signs from the persona of corrupt and abusive cops. Known for their breakout song "Right to Remain Violent".
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* [[Rage Quit]] - A metal band. At their live shows, the guitarist always makes a mistake about halfway through the fifth song, and his playing just gets worse from that point on until he gives up and walks off stage. Currently looking for a new guitarist.
* [[Rape Is Love]] - Thrash Goregrind-Porngrind fusion.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]] - On the surface, Heavy Metal. actually a brilliantly done [[Stealth Parody]] of the genre. Lots of argument amongst fans if they're music is intentionally [[So Bad It's Good]], unintentionally [[So Bad It's Good]], So Bad It's Horrible, or just plain Good. Rivals of [[Testosterone Poisoning]].
** We already have this kind of band, and it's called '''[[Manowar]]'''. Save for the name, the description matches perfectly.
* [[Raygun Gothic]] - Power/prog metal. Their albums all tell the ''[[Crystal Spires and Togas]]'' science fiction saga. They are faster than [[Dragon Force]] and more complex than [[Dream Theater (Music)|Dream Theater]], and their ultimate goal is to create the most difficult-to-play piece of music ever.
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* [[Rock Me, Amadeus]] - Neoclassical Metal, do a lot of covers of classical symphonies, mostly Mozart.
* [[Rock Me, Asmodeus]] - a hardcore thrash band, but not really black or death metal.
* [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]] - The band formed by a disgruntled former member of Kirks Rock, which only lasted two months before the other members left. Currently looking for members.
* [[Rockstar Song]] - a [[Po Mo]] band who songs are all [[Trope Name|Trope Names]] and/or [[Take That|Take Thats]] against other bands or songs. They'd have a sort of Emo/Ska sound if they didn't deny categorization because they hate all genres equally.
* [[Room Full of Crazy]] - A screwed up experimental/avantgarde rock/metal project probably featuring Mike Patton.
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* [[Rule of Cool]] - A popular band that specializes in fast paced Rock music. Known for their hit single, "[[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|Instant Awesome: Just Add]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Ninja Pirate Zombie Robots]]".
* [[Samus Is a Girl]] - A glam/punk rock hybrid band whose members are all drag queens and kings.
* [[Schizo
* [[The Scrappy]] - A goth/emo metal band that focuses on worthlessness and trash. Songs include "Piece of Junk", "Useless", and "Bound for the Dump".
* [[Serial Escalation]]- A band that goes to ridiculous lengths to one-up every other band. Their guitarist plays fast enough to put [[Dragon Force]] to shame... ''with his teeth'', the lead singer incorporates spontaneous glass breakage into their concerts, their drummer is a zombie Keith Moon. Their pyrotechnics must be seen to be believed.
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* [[Squishy Wizard]] - A group of self admitted nerds with songs that spoof videogame tropes, such as the titular wizard.
* [[Start to Corpse]] - As always with names like these, metal, probably some garage band who's a bit confused on their exact sub-genre, or what it actually means. Bassist wants to play Black metal, the drummer wants to play Death metal, the Guitarist wants to experiment, and the lead singer is still mesmerised by the idea of subgenres.
* [[Steampunk]] - Symphonic metal band... with a twist! The band uses [[Schizo
* [[Stepford Smiler]] - A pop rock Band Who Plays very Happy music, But lyrically They talk about Suicide and depression and Murder. Basically [[Lyrical Dissonance]] to the core.
* [[Stock Puzzle]] - A sound crew remixes popular music that you've already heard several hundred times.
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* [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix]] - Remixing internet memes or creating new ones. Most fans are nerds.
* [[Subspace Ansible]] - Sci-fi prog rock. Don't like being celled Subspace Ensemble.
* [[Sucking
* [[Suddenly Sexuality]] - Indie gay glam/techno band.
* [[Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven]] - Japanese singers who sing entirely in "[[Gratuitous English|English]]".
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* [[Take That]] - Pretty much the same band as [[Accentuate the Negative]]. Naturally, these two bands ''loathe'' each other. Not to be confused with the <s>boy</s> [[Take That (Music)|middle aged man band led by Gary Barlow]].
* [[Techno Babble]] - Vocal samples over a drum machine beat, not recommended as backgorund music for crowded places. Features lengthy rap sessions by a [[The Godfather (Film)|Don Vito Corleone]] impersonator.
* [[Teens Are Monsters]] - A [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|ragtag]] [[Garage Band|garage band]] trio of misfit teenage girls [[Crowning Music of Awesome|blasting their hearts out on cheap instruments.]] Their lyrics are generally [[The Snark Knight|sardonic, snarky, darkly humorous reflections and observations on the follies of teenage life]]. Their music is usually categorized as "alternative rock," but it is also influenced by hardcore punk, punk pop, and progressive rock. They performed their first gig when they crashed a talent show at their high school, setting up in record time and performing part of the song "Pep Rally Purgatory" before the administration caught on and forcibly removed them from the stage. They later released their debut album ''[[Brainless Beauty]]'' and began a tour in a [[What a Piece of Junk!|converted family minivan]], playing guerilla gigs across the country and building up a fanbase of various teenage freaks. The band members are:
** A [[The Snark Knight|Daria-esque]] guitarist/cellist/lead singer who writes most of the lyrics and sings most of the songs.
** A keyboardist/violinist/occasional lead vocalist and lyricist who dresses like a stereotypical [[Goth]] but is actually more like a [[Shrinking Violet]] [[Hollywood Homely|nerd]].
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* [[Terrorists Without a Cause]] - Alternative rock, politically infused lyrics against The Man.
** Either that, or the first-ever indie act out of Cairo.
* [[Testosterone Poisoning]] - Blatant parody heavy metal band, with hilarious lyrics. Rivals of [[Rated "M" for Manly]], despite frequently being confused with them.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]] - ''More'' Dakka! Speed/power metal in all it's glory. Play only on [[Up to Eleven|eleventh]] volume (their concerts are not unlike Space Shuttle takeoff), use largest and loudest tech available. Frequently perform in improbable locations - over the erupting volcanoes, in the storms' eyes,and ''[[Detonation Moon|on the moon]]'', among other places. Rivals with [[More Dakka]].
* [[The Schizophrenia Conspiracy]] - An alternative rock band whose songs all deal with insanity. [[Only Sane Man|With the exception of the bassist]], every member has spent some time institutionalized.
* [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]] - The hardest and blackest of the metal bands. No, blacker than that.
* [[This Troper]] - a band that exists only in rumours spread along various internet forums (and wikis) by some frustrated nerd that would like to convince people it's a real thing; alas nobody takes him seriously.
* [[Thong of Shielding]] - all-female pop/rock. Perform only in lingere' with g-string panties. Songs are about skimpy underthings and protecting loved ones. Currently on tour with [[Nipple
* [[Those Two Guys]] - Wacky nerd-humor band. Or at least, WANNABE wacky nerd humor band. They're not actually nerds, and they're really just playing along with the record company to try and capitalize on the success of Weird Al's "White and Nerdy." Yes, they're ''poser nerds.''
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]] - Who've constructed an elaborate stage persona of vicious, totally unironic-sounding neo-fascists from which they never deviate, and endeavour to keep their real lives (especially speculation as to whether they're Jewish, as often claimed) secret. As noted above, ''metal'', playing gigs with the [[Dirty Communists]] to play off their rivalry. The fact that both [[Those Wacky Nazis]] and the [[Dirty Communists]] ''hate'' [[Putting On the Reich]] has led some fans to joke that the two bands are actually just two faces of a larger project, The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
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