Going out of Business
Free Puppies to Good Home
Ballroom Dance Lessons
Hamlet
Damn beat me to the link.
I think that Closed for Repairs is my favorite choice so far. I just can’t see it working on a marquee.
My entry is Welcome Nebraska Salesmen.
How about -
Christians Rock Out!
Saving Ourselves for Marriage
Chastity & the Abstainers
Your Parents’ Band
the All Nude Rock Show (starring Sandra Bernhardt, Mama Cass and…Liza!)
the Yoko Ono Tribute Band
Various Artists.
They may want to buy your CD, but they’ll NEVER find it.
And they join Saves the Day, Severe Tire Damage, and Avatar as bands that I thought would make a great band name before I knew they really existed.
There is a great band called Jackie O’MotherF**r (censored for the family friendliness of it all) and I have always wondered about how they got billed when they play live.
I saw a band in this one tiny club in Gainesville in 2001, and while they were pretty good, and all really nice guys, I felt bad for them. After all, how is a band ever going to get much of an audience with a ridiculous name like Death Cab for Cutie?
A reference to the novel White Noise, which is itself a problematic band name.
In a similar vein, our theoretical band when I was out of college (Theoretical Band wouldn’t be a bad name, at that) was going to have annoying album names.
We were going to start with “Greatest Hits”, go on to “The Tribute Album,” then perhaps “Selftitled”. Around five or six we were going to have “Their First Album”.
I feel comfortable enough leaking this information as we will probably never actually put the band together (people moved away, drummer died, nobody really plays appropriate band instruments) but I refuse to give away the name of the band because it’s the best rock band name ever.
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Accordianocity.
Abba
More student suggestions:
Whites Only
Going Out of Business
I’ve heard that Simmons and Stanley wanted to name their band F___, but were told they’d never get airplay, and probably some store bannings, so they settled for KISS.
Services at 10AM each Sunday
I always thought Hatebreed would kill them after a certain point, but they got further than we ever imagined.
Why is this so confusing and club owner maddening?
I recently went to a show, listed as:
8:00 PM
The Pillows
Noodles • All Ages ($21/$26)
I was really surprised that there were three bands…
ETA: my nomination would be something along the lines of “Doors Open at 7” 
Broken Toilets
No Heat Tonight
Check out their Wikipedia. 8 albums, 9 different labels. They recorded their latest album in January 2007 but have not yet found someone to release it. They were even told by Matador to change their name… or else.