Lots of bands have ridiculous names, but these band names have especially highbrow backstories.
The Airborne Toxic Event
"The Airborne Toxic Event" is the second section of Don DeLillo's classic postmodern novel White Noise.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is the name of Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in the 1953 biker film The Wild One.
!!!
!!! took their name from the subtitles of the film The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the Bushmen's Khoisan language was represented with exclamation points.
Klaxons
Klaxons were inspired by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's The Futurist Manifesto and Futurist literature.
