Lightspeed Champion Dev Haynes has a history with curious band names.
He became interested in bebop and modern classical music in his 20s and joined an intellectually curious band that included the pianist Ted Harris.
In its current lineup — with Mr. Tweedy on lead vocals and rhythm guitar; John Stirratt on bass; Nels Cline on lead guitar; Mikael Jorgensen and Pat Sansone on keyboards; and Glenn Kotche on drums — Wilco is a sturdy and curious band, equally drawn to the sweet and the sour.
LM, and its curious band of supporters drawn from both extremes of the political spectrum, had attempted to attract the sympathy vote by presenting their predicament as a "David and Goliath" fight, branding ITN as the oppressor of truth determined to crush a low-circulation magazine which had said something it didn't like.
There have been few more curious bands than Adam and the Ants.
Mr. Nash, a saxophonist with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, has two curious bands, blending free and structured jazz and all sorts of timbres, including trombone and accordion.
Here, for example, is a passage bordering on a Rooseveltian interior monologue: To Roosevelt, as to all marathon campaigners, the trip became an accelerating blur, a mélange of whistle-stops, poking hands, curious eyes, and bands, bands, bands, raucously thumping.
On that note, I know this is a little outside your genre, but I'm always curious how bands with more eclectic audiences, as you guys have, feel about the state of pop music.
Who's watching: The die-hard fans push to the front, leaving those curious about the band because of their profane name to nod approvingly from the sidelines.
Ideally, kids will pick up this comic, get curious about the band, and YouTube their greatest hits.
Barrett fits into that legacy in a curious way: The band's defining music, from such albums as "Dark Side of the Moon" in 1973 and "The Wall" in 1979, was recorded well after Barrett's departure, but his status as a shaper of the group's unique persona endured.
