Band Name Origins by Hupfen

Both a movie and a Talking Heads album, True Stories contains a song that named what Abingdon (not Oxford) alternative rock band?

Finish the Swedish twee band name, somewhat appropriately borrowed from a Silver Jews lyric: Suburban Kids with ____ ____.

What heavily political band took its name from itself - or at least, its frontman's previous hardcore punk group Inside Out?

What experimental indie rock group took their name from a throwaway line uttered by insurance salesman Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day?

The Virginia Woolf story "The Mark on the Wall" contains a line that inspired the name of what Pacific Northwest indie band?

The subtitles for The Gods Must Be Crazy inspired what trisyllabic punk band with a suggested, but no official, pronunciation?

There are two bands - one ska, one rock - that take their names from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Name both.

Electronic musician Richard Melville Hall uses what stage name, derived from a novel by the same writer who gave him his middle name?

What band is named not for any one particular film, but a sound effect appearing in hundreds of movies?

Four notable bands have been named for The Smiths songs. Only one of them does not have a female vocalist. Name that pop band.

Keeping with the loose kitchen theme of their inspiration, what indie band is named for a Can song?

What musician, whose name came from a Wu-Tang Clan Name Generator, may be the only major artist with an animated .gif for an official album cover?