What is a good band name? In the sixties they thought that the best names where regular nouns in plural and preceded by 'the'. Look at The Beatles, The Kinks, The Golden Earrings, The Monkees, The Animals etc. A few years later they often expelled the article and sometimes the name wasn't even a noun. The band names became stranger. Like Ten Years After, Happy Mondays, Squeeze, Blur, Aztec Camera etc. Today it seems like every name is possible. But I think a band name has to have at least one quality: it has to be eye-catching which is hard to forget. And of course a name for a band today has to be able to be googled. The name Sybris is easy to be found on Google, but I don't think its a nice, remarkable name. It looks like the name of a publishing company or a spacecraft. I'm glad that the music is a lot more interesting.Sybris are from Chicago and the band consists of Shawn Podgurski, Phil Naumann, Angela Mullenhour and Eric Mahle. The first three have met on April 2003 and it soon was clear that their musical partnership would lead to something special. Some days later the threesome was joined by drummer Bill Bumgardner, but he was replaced by Eric during the recording of the self-titled debut album in 2005. This first album was released by Flameshovel Records from the band's hometown. For their second album "Into The Trees" Sybris signed a deal with Absolutely Kosher Records from California. The music of these four Americans sounds like a mix of Pretenders, Belly and Lush.
>mp3: Oh Man!
>mp3: Breath Like You're Dancing (from "Sybris")