Glitter Banned or
Sequins Banned
Sleepy Dan
Maybe too obvious:
That '70s Band
Cheap Tramps
It’s a combo of Cheap Trick and Super Tramp with the added bonus of advertisements that read “Tonight at the BrewPub: Cheap Tramps!”
Buzzkilla!
Disco Stew
I like that one! 
Oooh! Oooh! I got one: Billy Beer!
**Whip Inflation Now
Bell Bottom Boogie
Johnny Suede and the Fringe Jackets
The AM Radios
The Ghetto Blasters**
From previous suggestions, I really like The Pet Rockers.
**Mood Ring
The Bad Hair-Dos
The Smoking Banana Peels
What Are Cellphones?
The Over Thirty Untrustables
The SLA Ate My Baby**
Eight Tracks of Awesome
Wood Paneled Basement
Stevie Nick’s Mumu
Hands Thrown in the Air
Eight Track Mind
Limit 55
Three Mile Island
I kind of like the 8 track references so something like a play on 8 track would work
maybe
The A-Trax
0r
8 Rax
The Bic Flickers
Light Mauve (an homage to Deep Purple)
PC and the Moonshine Band
The Earth Shoes
The Mood Rings
Fee Punk All-Stars
Cousin Oliver’s Dark Secret
Han Shot First!
Hef’s Grotto
Starland Dental Dam
Is there a particular artist they’ll be doing a lot of covers of?
Quadraphonic [plays on the state-of-the-art stereo tech; also smacks of The Who]
The Porn 'Staches [maybe the band members could glue these on for their concerts?.. otherwise, it’s just hipster irony]
Beery Bill [plays on Billy Beer and playbill]
Still Leaded [plays on the early '70’s phasing out of leaded gasoline; also suggestive of Led Zep covers]
Haven’t read the whole thread, so apologies if I’m echoing anyone else, but Galaxie 500’s been taken (and your hubby wouldn’t want to cover any of their stuff, either, FWIW).
Far Out and Groovy
The Detente Dilettantes [you’ll need to add the diacritical mark]
Not Seen on TV
When SNL Was Cool
The British Tax Exiles Invasion
The Little Doobie Flying Bachman Brothers
T-Wrecks
Thanks so much for all the great suggestions. And yes, we saw shortly after we came up with it that Galaxie 500 is already taken. Damn them!
I should mention that their name for now is 8-Track Prom, unless they come up with something better. Hence this thread.
There isn’t a single artist they plan to focus on; it’s pretty much that if the tune will get people dancing, they’ll probably cover it. I just took a peek at their sample playlist, and here are some of the bands they’ll cover:
- Rolling Stones
- Led Zeppelin
- KC & the Sunshine Band
- Blondie
- Kool & the Gang
- Pat Benetar
- The Bee Gees
- KISS
- Hot Chocolate
- Foghat
- Peter Frampton
- Aerosmith
- The Cars
- Tom Petty
- Joe Walsh
- Queen
… and a whole bunch of others. Looks fun.
Lead-free Byrds
Cat Scratch Beaver
Brady Cats
Who Needs Latex? (Pre-mandatory condom era reference)
How about “Heart of Glass”?