When it comes to band names, SXSW is like a box of chocolates.





As Forrest Gump’s mom would say, you never know what you’re gonna get. Everybody’s trying to make a musical splash in Austin at this time of year. Sometimes, the best way to cement your act in someone’s brain throughout a long week of drinking and hearing new music is to have the funniest, cleverest, or even just the absolute worst band name of the festival.







They're memorable no matter where on this list they fall: check out our picks for the Best and Worst Band Names of SXSW 2019 below.





- By Kelly McComas -









BEST BAND NAMES





(Albuquerque, NM)

What we're all striving to be every day.









(Brooklyn, NY)

Quality. Especially for a punk band.









(London, England)

Will they be Harry Potter audiobooks? Sounds like a nice respite from all these bands.









(Tel Aviv, Israel)

The neighborhood haunted house gone right.









(Mallorca, Spain)

You can do it, lil' spiky!









(San Francisco, CA)

Just rolls off the tongue.









(Chofu City, Japan)

SHE HATES MONO AUDIO.









(Sydney, Australia)

Poetry in its own right.









(Seattle, WA)

An artist from Seattle named after a cloud? Fitting. Carry on.









(Shanghai, China)

If you take a dead guy to a wild party...









(New York, NY)

The new club drug sweeping Rainforest Cafes everywhere.









(St. Louis, MO)

Like the one in the corner of the ceiling just watching you.









(Birmingham, England)

Clearly an act with good taste. At least in snacks.









(Austin, TX)

Criminals hate them!









(Brooklyn, NY)

The best way to spend your night, no?









(Harlesden, England)

Yes. Sports. Go Team!









(Los Angeles, CA)

Adorable name for a pet chinchilla.









(Sydney, Australia)

Damn, and we thought speaking a little Spanish was impressive.









(Austin, TX | Stockton, CA)

The uncles we never had.









WORST BAND NAMES









(Salt Lake City, UT)

Endorsed by Tronald Dump.









(Santiago, Chile)

FIDLAR's really unattractive cousin.









(Barcelona, Spain)

This one is...difficult to envision.









(Auckland, New Zealand)

I don't want to! You can't make me!









(Minneapolis, MN)

Unless they wear some onstage, we're not into it.









(Nashville, TN)

This is enough of a problem all year round here in Austin, thanks though.









(Liverpool, UK)

Whatever it is, she can have it. I hope it's a punctuation guide.









(Wrexham, Wales)

These vape companies need to quit with the subliminal messaging. Not very subtle.









(Flint, MI)

Where the Twilight fangirls think Edward Cullen is living these days.









(Charlottesville, VA)

I think I wrote a melodramatic poem with this title in the eighth grade.









(Berlin, Germany)

At least it's not Heineken.









(Vancouver, Canada)

Dopey. The dwarf, or the drunk guy at Ren Fest?









(Toronto, Canada)

If you're going to choose a DJ moniker based on an iPhone color, Space Gray is definitely the one to pick.









(Portland, OR)

Maybe this is what we call people who are high on T-Rexstasy.









(Taiwan, Taiwan)

Like an eggplant-shaped egg? Or a plant between two eggs? Can we get a diagram?









(Maqu, China)

There are a lot of things we can address here. For one, aren't babies always young?









(Atlanta, GA)

One of everyone's least favorite pastimes.









(Kyoto, Japan)

Apparently, this band's name is inspired by a love hotel in Osaka, which makes it much less cute.











