Chalk it up to uninteresting bands using irony to make themselves seem more interesting, but we've noticed a recent trend in band-naming: extreme prep.
But before you have flashbacks to that recent awful summer when men decided it was OK to turn up the necks of their magenta shirts like fancy nautical draculas, never fear. Most of the bands on this list are still the same Suck-Kut hairdos and gaunt-butts-in-dirty-pants types you usually see lurking about SXSW.
So if you're considering calling your baroque pop three-piece something tongue-in-cheeky like, oh, we don't know, Highball or Country Club, make sure it's not already spoken for. Check out this list of groups that have already hopped on the jitney to Prep Island.
1) Tennis
2) Public Radio
3) YACHT
4) How to Dress Well (Dressing well: very preppy.)
5) The War on Drugs (Reagan-y ,no?)
6) Clams Casino
7) Boat People (see also: YACHT)
Botany (And really, anything that sounds like a college major or Victorian hobby. See also: Social Studies, Archaelogy, Art vs. Science, etc.)
9) English Teeth
10) Football
11) Hull (It's part of a ship. Look it up.)
12) French Horn Rebellion (The edgiest thing the french horn ever did was represent the wolf in "Peter and the Wolf." Preppy. NEXT!)
13) Ladies Gun Club (Tinged with an intriguing threat of violence, perhaps! But "Ladies + [anything] + Club" = repping prepping.)
14) Madras
15) Nouveau Riche
16) Summer Camp
17) Taddy Porter (OK, Taddy Porter is a Southern rock band, but don't they sound like an entitled young country clubber who would be an a**hole to Rodney Dangerfield. )
18) White Denim
19) Tom Collins
20) The Vespas (Hey, Vespas are still preppy, right?)
21) Yearbook Committee
22) The Debutante Hour
+ Who'd we miss? Tell us in the comments and we'll add them above.