What's In A Name?

So I will readily admit that I will check out a band solely based off of their name. And I've had some success with bands such as Japandroids, Heartless Bastards, and Gay Witch Abortion(this may be the best band name ever). But then some bands get so creative, and I use that term loosely, that they actually end up out smarting themselves. For instance, if you're a little known band whose music is hard to find dont come up with a name like Football or Dress. Because when I Youtube your name all that comes up are home made videos of flag football games or some 60 year old lady showing you how to make a dress. And when you put in Football band or music, you get Monsters of Metal 2 or they're playing the theme song from the Mortal Kombat movie. Which in most cases is actually better than the band you are researching. Anyway, two years ago when I saw Sharon Van Etten's name come up, my interest was instantly piqued. With the last name Van or Von anything how can you not be cute and snooty. I always link those names to a character from Cruel Intentions.

Well as it turns out, Sharon is cute and talented rather than snooty. Singer songwriter is not a style of music I typically listen to; it's just too boring for my taste. But I recognize talent when I hear it. Her song Serpents grabs a hold of you as it starts off kind of dark and brooding and then explodes. Her voice compliments the music too, which is key because if your voice is the central focus of your music then it's probably a good thing that you don't sound like Joan Rivers after ANOTHER 40 years of smoking. Her style seems to change from song to song just slightly which is refreshing so you're not hearing the same 3 chords over and over. DsharpG is probably my favorite song of hers; simply put it's beautiful and puts you in this trance like state. Basically it's THAT song that every indie director puts in his big finale when the lead actor and lead actress finally realize from a distance that they are in love with each other and then start to run to one another. Yes I have seen too many of these movies and yes I love them! I keep missing her everytime she comes to town but don't be an idiot like me, catch her. Sure it's worth every penny. I give her a rating of pretty FRESH.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHMyYtmx3E8

The next artist I try my hardest to hate. All of the elements are there : as far as hip hop is concerned he looks wack with his half psuedo perm and half shaved head (he gets props from me on this btw), he wears unbelievably wack clothes, his voice is kind of annoying, and his rhymes about sex seem like they're written by a 13 year old whose watched alot of porn but has never actually been laid. But as I checked out Danny Brown's mixtape XXX I couldn't stop listening to it. I kept bobbing my head and kept laughing. I couldnt figure out if he was just wack or if he was actually clever ;but as you hear songs that start off with "Coming colder than the grits they served slaves" or "i got that income tax swag" how can you not be entertained? Seriously, who doesn't get something fly with their tax return? I don't smoke weed but anyone who does will be instantly hooked with his track Blunt After Blunt in which he proceeds to say "And I smoke!!!! Blunt after blunt after blunt after blunt after" It's crazy catchy. Again, based off of his annoying voice I've heard mixed reviews about his live shows but I'd recommend checking him out for the pure spectacle. I know I will probably regret this later but for now I will give Danny Brown a rating of barely FRESH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2FSjJqKvo&NR=1&feature=endscreen