Boris Yeltsin’s Death Has Middling Effect On American Indie-Rock Scene

Brian Raftery | April 23, 2007 1:09 am
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So Boris Yeltsin is dead (this is merely a technicality, as Yeltsin was officially declared “pickled” in 1998). This can only be bad news for Springfield, Missouri indie-pop band Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, who will now have to spend the rest of the week opening their live shows with a little “weird, huh?” monologue, as well as fielding calls from confused CNN reporters. It just goes to show that you should never, ever name your band after an actual public figure, because once that person dies, you’re going to have forever defensively explain your band’s entire history (which, frankly, nobody wants to hear in the first place). And so we ask the following bands to take today’s lesson to heart, and quickly change their name before it’s too late:

Gena Rowlands Band Mr. T Experience Kathleen Turner Overdrive The Real Tuesday Weld Emmet Otter’s Jug Band

Former Russian leader Yeltsin dead [CNN.com]