Your aesthetic mishaps are my valuable time-savers!! Your harsh lack of originality trims the fat!! Want me to write you off as irrelevant? Do one or more of the following things:
-Name your band something really stupid. Vietnam, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bloc Party, IMA ROBOT, Genghis Tron, any nod to 80’s street or Hip Hop culture used to name a rock band.
-Use robot imagery, sing about robots, use the word “robot” in a name or title.
-Use pirate imagery, lyrics, or state out loud that you find pirates amusing.
-Use unicorn imagery or lyrics.
-Be a “confrontational” live act.
-Claim to make hardcore in the year 2006.
-Have 4 – 5 members and make directionless, improv noise that could have been created by one person.
-Slumming.
-Obvious uptight dickheadedness + San Francisco, Portland, Olympia WA origins.
-Be a fake redneck.
-Make underground Hip Hop.