Way back in December 2005, during my first year at The A.V. Club, I included with my top album picks a list of the worst band names I’d encountered that year. This morphed into the Year in Band Names, one of the A.V. Club’s most popular annual year-end features. In 2020, I continued my mission with a newsletter called Band Name Bureau. It celebrates, catalogues, and makes the occasional (frequent) snarky comment about band names. It’s fun to write, and I’m told it’s fun to read.