Code-related band names:

Panic Hardware (death metal)

One in Twelve (Christian Rock)

Ada and the Accessibilities (motown)

Strike Side Jam(b) (reggae)

POMO Mayhem (punk)

Charles & Ray (indie alt-country ala She and Him)

E.1027 (Experimental Post-Rock)

The Louis Cons (English, Post-punk)

vado and the retrotones

E.I.F.S. (Commercial NuMetal)

Yes, I just compared EIFS to Creed.

The Unregistered (classic punk stomper "Ey! Ay! Ey!")
BoyzIIPritzker ("Keep reaching for the Starz" did not chart)
Lady Zaha (smash dancepop hit "Crazytown melts with U")
New Kids of the OMA (flop single "We was born rich")
My morning Reglet ("Riot on the roof" B-side)
Nine inch Rails (Wall-Mart censored "Dow chemicals in my veins" single)

The coordination (controversial single "Million dead engineers")
The beastie alloys ( "You gotta fight for your right to a free weekend")
Pop goes the Market ( 182 week #1 international hit single "I used to have a job")

the vapor retarders (hard core punk)

Pear Jamb (teenage angst anthem "Jammy")

Pretty girls make Michael Graves (emo cutter "Buried in a Cylinder")

the platonic solids -- the complex geometry of indie rock

plán czechs (industrial death metal)

The Frank Gehry Experience (psychedelic rock)

Le Crunkusier (french crunk 'ip 'op)

the smoke baffles (60's soul)

polished chrome (boy george cover band)

lunch and learn (90's charts pop)

the 50 cfm's (rockabilly)

the resilient channels (jock rock)

or equal (indie)

unless noted otherwise (a Smiths cover band)

by owner (punk)

wysiwyg (techno)

The mumbling deconstructivists (ska)

Loos Canon (80's rock)

proun (heavy metal)

Suprematist Manifesto (prog rock)

Eisenman (lounge singer)

Hejduk's Chronotope (emo)

24 on center (jock rock band opening for phuyake's resilient channels)

dpc (ambient)

Groin Vault

the nominal size (british 80's)
galvanized nails (alternative)
mac-a-dells (motown)
the flash drive (electronic experimental)
the nominals (british rock)
arrive after 9 (alternative)

eventually changed their name to 'Goodafternine!" (I got that one a lot in my early 20's)

Lifted straight off my bookshelf:

A Pattern Language
Defensible Space
A Scientific Autobiography
The Eyes of the Skin
Perspecta

UNO (christian rock)
the isotherms
the 24" OCs
the warm edge spacers
the HRVs
the 10 penny nails
the substrates


dubk - check out biosphere

Pounce (Scottish fiddle music)
Rule of Thirds (Irish fiddle music)
Jack Stud (porn music)
Water Closet (German porn music)
Quoin (hip hop)
Dead Load (bad Grateful Dead cover band)

i saw one similar in cherith's above, but we had an informal jam band in school that we called lou and the icons. pure cheese, but hey...

jonny shoes & the plates (reggae)

w/ (minimal, slowcore)

MR GWB (political pop)

hi all you fancy graphics lovers (brand new extremely cutting edge)

the al gore~rhythms (carbon-neutral sustainable math rock)

oh man i wanted to start a band called 'the al gore rhythms' way way back in '00/'01 but i never did anything about it and that term has been used a lot since then: http://www.urbandictionary.com/term=algorerhythm and there's a band here www.myspace.com/algoremusic oh boy i coulda been a contenda but instead i'ma bum i snoozed and loooozed bah!! :'(

wasn't there a group called the twoby4s? or some funny spelling like that?

career crisis (nerdy, maybe sort of devo-esque punk, maybe a bit of the wipers too).

i think the new urbanists is great! but i can't decide if they're super twee or super neko case or something

been wanting to start a sloppy trash garage band called the residuals. more stat than arch

The Siamese Connection

Non Conformance Report

The Volatile Orgasmic Compounds!

OK, FRaC, this is totally off topic but your Al Gore pun reminded me that 15 years ago my dad (pretty right wing, but pen-minded about it) took a 12" length of 1" wooden dowel and painted spots all over it then brought it out at every party saying "What's all the fuss about the endangered Spotted Dowel, you just make a new one like this!"

<back to band names>

the Dictionary of Historic Architecture has all the best names:


chresmographion (prog rock)

the radiating chapels (whatever)

bent approach (punk)

chou chu (chinese punk)

choragic monument (ambient)

sgraffito (italian techno)

squinch

or, the squinches

or, dome and the squinches

also,

masters of measure

(courtesy of rick tyrrell)

I'm kind of disappointed there haven't been more 'creative' capitalizations (eg. SQuINch, cHou cHu, etc.) in these names... it's not very architecty of us...

Rip Rap

dunnage

@Nevah-Wen
there was a ska band (still is?) in the 90s called standpipe siamese.

Save to Central (emo)

The Deliverables

[FLASH]-drive (euro trance)
MCmaster and chOLO (comedy/spoof)

trash dub all-stars

apparently there is a "real" band playing bars around Chicago called "the unemployed architects."

i saw a flier for a show this weekend.

dj stijl (house.. white red blue and yellow)

nurbs (nerdcore)

Band/Album:

Archinect Job Board
more action than a cheap hotel room mattress

Crying architects and the threepence pinchers!