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All of Dr. Acula's songs are titled after books from RL Stine's Goosebumps series. If you're a 90s kid, you surely remember those!

American Nightmare, faced with a legal battle over their band name (someone else claimed it), changed their name briefly to American Nothing and finally settled on Give Up the Ghost in 2003. I still call them American Nightmare.

Communique is made up of the band that was formerly American Steel. They changed their name when they decided to go in a new direction with their music.

Joy Division is Geoff Rickly of Thursday's favorite band. Thursday has a song entitled Ian Curtis on their 1999 album, Waiting.

Van Morrisson's Brown Eyed Girl song was original titled Brown-Skinned Girl.

Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain, was a very big fan of The Pixies, and admits they were a strong influence in the music he wrote.

The Mars Volta was formed after singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez left their band, At the Drive-In, in 2001. The remaining members of At the Drive-In went on to form Sparta.

Neon Blonde consists of a singer (Johnny Whitney) and drummer (Mark Gajadhar) from the band The Blood Brothers, which is why the vocals sound very similar in the two bands.

What do Swing Kids, The Locust, and Some Girls have in common? Justin Pearson was a member! Justin's record label, Three One G, takes it's name from a Joy Division lyric in the song Warsaw, which Swing Kids covered.... go listen!

New Order was formed from the remaining members of Joy Division after Ian Curtis committed suicide. They have a more electro-dance sound as oppossed to post-punk.

I Hate Myself never gave a title to any of their albums or any of their singles. Records are simply called "10 songs", "4 songs", etc.

Portugal. The Man consists of former members of the band Anatomy of a Ghost. You can kind of tell, right?