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* Music/ElvisCostello & The Attractions. While The Attractions were first a backing band for Elvis, they released their own album in 1980.
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* Music/AlisonKraussAndUnionStation: Krauss is the lead singer and plays fiddle. The Country Music Association has nominated both Krauss for the solo Female Vocalist of the Year award and Alison Krauss & Union Station for Vocal Group of the Year ? sometimes in the same year.
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* Music/ChristineAndTheQueens is the solo project of French singer Héloïse Letissier. "The Queens" refer to drag queens who would perform for her during the start of her career. Despite changing their moniker to Chris in 2018, her following releases were still credited to Christine And The Queens.
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* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine is another case of a lead singer-songwriter ('''Florence''' Welsh) backed by a band, however Florence started the band with Isabella Summers who was nicknamed "Machine" while Florence was nicknamed "Robot". It started as an inside joke that got way out of hand and "Florence Robot/Isa Machine" turned into the group we know today.
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* Music/BillHaleyAndHisComets is a [[TheFifties 50s]] rock'n'roll act which had numerous hits during that decade. Following Bill's death, seven various iterations of the band have been formed (and are claimed to be a continuation of the original act, with some varying degree of authenticity).
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* ''Series/JulieAndThePhantoms'': The titular band is formed from the ghostly former members of [[TheNineties 90s]] rock band Sunset Curve and Julie Molina, the only living member and the one who enables the other members to be seen. People in-universe assume "The Phantoms" are holograms rather than ghosts.
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* An episode of ''Series/DonnaReedShow'' had Jeff and the Gents, whose records ended up used as proto-Frisbees.
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** MAD #79 had a similar "Rise and Fall" feature, with the starlet starting as a nameless member of a vocal group, advancing from "The Euclid Phlomm Chorale with Patricia Blousen" to "Patricia Blousen and the Euclid Phlomm Chorale," reaching the peak of her career with an album cover showing "Patti" and a closeup of her face, then gradually declining until once again becoming a nameless member of the Euclid Phlomm Chorale.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/SoulMusic'', rejected names for The Band With Rocks In include "Cliff and the Cliffettes" and "Glod and the Glodettes". Dibbler says the ''proper'' name for a musical group is something like "Bertie the Balladeer and his Troubador Rascals".
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* The PunkRock act Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers (unrelated to Music/TomPetty's).
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* Dion and the Belmonts we're a popular Main/{{Doowop}} vocal quartet in the late 1950s. Even though they were a proper group, not a solo act and backing band, Dion was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without the other three Belmonts in 1989, which caused a great deal of friction between him and the other members.
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A band which relies on its frontman might not deserve to be called a band (according to nitpickers). If a band realizes that, it might be best to name the band after that lead artist. But what about the other members? The frontman doesn't want to discredit them, and in some cases they also come up with their own material and stand out from being your average backing band.
Let's call them "[[TitleDrop Artist And The Band]]". This naming device puts emphasis on the band member who provides most of the creative input while also reminding the public that the artist is backed with a group of faithful instrumentalists. In other cases, this isn't the band's native name and a rebranding happened after that one band member made it big with their solo material (or proved to be the FaceOfTheBand). Or in a bigger twist, it could turn out it's just a solo project with a plural name. You may also use variations of that kind of name by using "+" or "And his/her/their".
SubTrope to IAmTheBand and Sister trope to SpotlightStealingTitle which extends to any media (but has the same objective marketing-wise) but also uses other naming conventions besides "X and the Y". Overlaps with FaceOfTheBand and might lead to TheBandMinusTheFace if that lead member leaves and the band doesn't change their moniker.
Not to be confused with the music act known as Music/TheBand. You might affiliate that trope with AndTheRest but it is more used in a derogative manner while Artist And The Band is about highlighting a backing band.
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* Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys were an American bluegrass band formed by guitarist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs, the Foggy Mountain Boys being a revolving lineup of performers.
* American Country artist Music/JasonIsbell fronts his own band called Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit.
* Music/AlisonKraussAndUnionStation: Krauss is the lead singer and plays fiddle. The Country Music Association has nominated both Krauss for the solo Female Vocalist of the Year award and Alison Krauss & Union Station for Vocal Group of the Year ? sometimes in the same year.
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* Music/NekoCase's first two albums were credited to Neko Case & Her Boyfriends. Starting with ''Blacklisted'' it's just been Case by herself.
* FolkMusic legend Music/BobDylan played with Music/TheBand (who served as a backing band) on stage in the mid-sixties and seventies. Their first concerts were billed as Bob Dylan & The Band, and the 1975 album ''Music/TheBasementTapes'' was also credited in that manner (with Dylan writing a majority of the songs though you could also call it an album by The Band).
* Several albums by Canadian [[FolkMusic Folk]]/{{Rock}} artist Music/NeilYoung also feature a band called Crazy Horse (some albums credit the two as "Neil Young & Crazy Horse" or "Neil Young With Crazy Horse). Crazy Horse was originally a doo-wop band called Danny & The Memories (fronted by Crazy Horse lead singer '''Danny''' Whitten) before connecting with Neil in the late [[TheSixties sixites]] and re-establish themselves as a rock act.
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* Eric Burdon and War was formed in 1969 when record producer Jerry Goldstein paired the ex-[[Music/TheAnimals Animals]] frontman with some up-and-coming musicians he'd seen performing around Los Angeles. They released two albums together before Burdon left in 1970. The rest of the group, now simply calling themselves [[Music/WarBand War]], would go on to have a very successful recording career of their own.
* The Revolution is one {{Music/Prince}}'s many side projects. The album ''Music/AroundTheWorldInADay'' is credited to Prince And The Revolution (the band was also present on ''Music/NineteenNinetyNineAlbum'' although uncredited).
** After The Revolution disbanded in 1986, Prince assembled a new backing band called The New Power Generation (or sometimes NPG) that played on most of his albums from 1990 on, with five of those albums (beginning with 1991's ''Diamonds & Pearls'') specifically credited to "Prince and the New Power Generation". NPG also released three albums of their own material and have toured independently since Prince's death.
** ''Music/PrincesAssociates'': The Time occasionally referred to themselves as Morris Day and The Time.
* {{Funk}}/{{Soul}} act Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone includes [[BandOfRelatives two brothers and two sisters]] and is named after lead singer/producer '''Sly''' Stone.
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* Some of Music/LouisArmstrong's most important recordings are [[Music/TheCompleteHotFiveAndHotSevenRecordings those with the first bands he led himself]]: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, and Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven.
* Jazz drummer Art Blakey started a hard bop combo initially named The Jazz Messengers. As they became a RevolvingDoorBand, with Blakey himself the only permanent member, the name changed to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Also of note is that Blakey and the early Messengers lineup recorded a few sessions with pianist Horace Silver; initially these were just billed as the Horace Silver Quintet, but compilation rereleases billed them as Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers.
* Early in Music/DukeEllington's career, he performed and recorded as Duke Ellington's Washingtonians, and also put out one album in 1958 as Duke Ellington's Spacemen. But most of the group's career was spent under the more prosaic name Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra.
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* Fictional singing group Music/AlvinAndTheChipmunks was originally named David Seville And The Chipmunks (David being the human character who looks after the chipmunks). After the success of [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks 1980s animated series]], their current name appeared on the 1992 album ''Chipmunks in Low Places'' and remained since.
* Music/AntonyAndTheJohnsons is an Art Pop band fronted by Anohni. The Johnsons are a reference to transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson (while no member of the band has Johnson in their name).
* Music/ChristineAndTheQueens is the solo project of French singer Héloïse Letissier. "The Queens" refer to drag queens who would perform for her during the start of her career. Despite changing their moniker to Chris in 2018, her following releases were still credited to Christine And The Queens.
* "At The Hop" is a classic [[TheFifties fifties]] doo-wop song by Danny & The Juniors (fronted by '''Danny''' Rapp). After his death in 1983, the band continued to tour without changing the name.
* An averted example with Music/MarinaDiamandis whose first stage name was Marina And The Diamonds. The "Diamonds" in question aren't any backing band and refer to Marina's fans (explaining it on Myspace: "I am Marina, and you are the diamonds").
* Dion and the Belmonts we're a popular Main/{{Doowop}} vocal quartet in the late 1950s. Even though they were a proper group, not a solo act and backing band, Dion was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without the other three Belmonts in 1989, which caused a great deal of friction between him and the other members.
* The Miami Sound Machine eventually became Music/GloriaEstefan And Miami Sound Machine, before becoming just Gloria Estefan.
** ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' ran a parody of the above situation with the rise and fall of a starlet in a church choir. At first, it's "The Fellows" with just her head sticking out of the row of singers, then it's "The Fellows and Melanie", "Melanie and the Fellows", before apexing at "M" with a closeup of her face. From there it spirals down the way it came, with her a sad, nameless member of the choir again.
** MAD #79 had a similar "Rise and Fall" feature, with the starlet starting as a nameless member of a vocal group, advancing from "The Euclid Phlomm Chorale with Patricia Blousen" to "Patricia Blousen and the Euclid Phlomm Chorale," reaching the peak of her career with an album cover showing "Patti" and a closeup of her face, then gradually declining until once again becoming a nameless member of the Euclid Phlomm Chorale.
* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine is another case of a lead singer-songwriter ('''Florence''' Welsh) backed by a band, however Florence started the band with Isabella Summers who was nicknamed "Machine" while Florence was nicknamed "Robot". It started as an inside joke that got way out of hand and "Florence Robot/Isa Machine" turned into the group we know today.
* Music/FosterThePeople started as "Foster and the people", with Mark Foster in that role, but after several people misheard it as "Foster The People", they decided to opt for that name.
* In her early career, Music/SelenaGomez was part of the group Selena Gomez & the Scene.
* Music/NataliaLafourcade was briefly part of a group called Natalia y La Forquetina for her album ''Casa''.
* Contemporary Christian singer Geoff Moore formed the band Geoff Moore And The Distance in 1987.
* The mainstream success of early sixties vocal group The Ronettes was thanks to Music/RonnieSpector and her vocal performance on "Be My Baby" (in fact, she's the only Ronette who sang on that track). This was acknowledged when the band was revived in TheSeventies under the title Ronnie Spector & The Ronettes.
* Music/FrankieValliAndTheFourSeasons got their current name since 1970. The were previously known as The Four Seasons and their legal name was The Four Seasons Partnership.
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[[folder: Rhythm And Blues]]
* Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames is a british R&B band whose drummer Mitch Mitchell went on to be the drummer of the Music/JimiHendrix Experience.
* Music/GladysKnight & the Pips is a Motown R&B group. It is a BandOfRelatives whose cousin nicknamed "Pip" was an inspiration behind "The Pips".
* Martha Reeves & The Vandellas is a R&B vocal girl group.
* Smokey Robinson and the Miracles was the temporary stage name of R&B vocal group The Miracles from 1965 to 1972.
* The Motown Soul trio Music/TheSupremes featured Music/DianaRoss as its lead singer and changed its name as Diana Ross And The Supremes in 1967 before Diana left the group three years later.
* Booker T. and the [=MGs=] were the house band at Creator/StaxRecords in the 1960s and 70s, fronted by Booker T. Jones on piano and organ and also including Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn, both of whom would later perform with The Blues Brothers. In addition to session playing on many of the albums produced by the label, they also recorded their own albums and had several top ten hits in the United States.
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[[folder: Rock]]
* Early in the career of Music/TheBeachBoys, they had two side-projects bearing that kind of name: Kenny & The Cadets (a trio which had Music/AlJardine and Music/BrianWilson in its lineup) and the Music/CarlWilson-led Carl & The Passions, (whose name would be used as the title of the [[Music/CarlAndThePassionsSoTough album of the same name]]). However, Carl didn't recall that band to ever exist.
** In 1990, lead singer Music/MikeLove toured as Mike Love Of The Beach Boys And The Endless Summer Beach Band, a backing band consisting of musicians who previously were touring members for The Beach Boys, including Music/AdrianBaker.
* Notably averted with Music/TheBeatles. When they were starting out in Liverpool in the late '50s, almost every rock n' roll group followed the naming format "X and the Ys." The future Beatles, then a trio calling themselves the Quarrymen, did not have a dedicated lead singer, with Music/JohnLennon, Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/GeorgeHarrison more or less taking equal time leading songs. They did play this trope straight for a single performance in 1958, where they called themselves "Johnny and the Moondogs."
** The original version of ''Music/LetItBe'' began with Music/JohnLennon jokingly introducing the first song as "'I Dig a Pygmy' by Creator/CharlesHawtrey and the Deaf-Aids!"
* Music/EltonJohn did a fictional example with "Benny And The Jets" from his ''Music/GoodbyeYellowBrickRoad'' album.
* British Art Pop singer-songwriter Music/DavidBowie had his early singles "Liza Jane", "You've Got a Habit of Leaving", and "Can't Help Thinking About Me" respectively credited to Davy Jones with the King Bees, Davy Jones & the Lower Third, and David Bowie with the Lower Third. After the release of "Do Anything You Say", he used the David Bowie stage name for the remainder of his career.
* Music/ElvisCostello & The Attractions. While The Attractions were first a backing band for Elvis, they released their own album in 1980.
* Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen, ironically, doesn't have any member called Echo. It is rumored that the "Echo" was a reference to the drum machine they used before hiring Pete de Freitas as the band's drummer. Nevertheless, frontman Ian [=McCulloch=] has been [[IAmNotShazam mistakenly refered to as "Echo"]] many times.
* Gerry And The Pacemakers is a british [[TheFifties 50s]]/[[TheSixties 60s]] Merseybeat band fronted by '''Gerry''' Marsden, famous for their hit "You'll Never Walk Alone" which became an anthem for Liverpool's soccer team.
* Bill Haley & The Comets is a [[TheFifties 50s]] rock'n'roll act which had numerous hits during that decade. Following Bill's death, seven various iterations of the band have been formed (and are claimed to be a continuation of the original act, with some varying degree of authenticity).
* Music/JimiHendrix was part of various bands before forming The Jimi Hendrix Experience. These bands are Curtis Knight and The Squires, Joey Dee and The Starliters, and Jimmy James and The Blue Flames.
* Music/HavalinaRailCo: After the departure of a key band member, Matt Wignall announced he was marking the shift by changing the band name to Matt Death and the New Intellectuals. Under the new name, they only released a few songs via Myspace, as their finished album wound up [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment getting shelved indefinitely]].
* Music/BuddyHolly was the frontman of a band called "Buddy Holly and the Crickets" before he focused on a short-lived solo career. After Buddy's death in 1959, The Crickets continued performing with Earl Sinks as its lead singer.
* Music/HootieAndTheBlowfish: One of the defining rock bands of mid to late '90s. Also a notable subversion, since [[NonIndicativeName no one in the band is named Hootie and the band itself is not called The Blowfish]]. It was named after two college friends who were nicknamed "Hootie" and "The Blowfish."
* Frank Iero has many side projects such Frank Iero And The Cellabration, Frank Iero And The Patience, and Frank Iero And The Future Violents.
* In the early 1980s, [=DeWayne=] Jessie (the ''Film/AnimalHouse'' actor who played the lead singer Otis Day of the FakeBand Otis Day and the Knights in the film) bought the rights to the band's name and created a real life version of it using a few of his family members.
* Music/JoanJett and the Blackhearts are a hard rock band Jett formed after her first band Music/TheRunaways broke up in 1979.
* Japanese Soft Rock artist Makoto Kubota had a breakthrough with Makoto Kubota & The Sunset Gang in TheSeventies.
** In the early [[TheEighties eighties]], Japanese singer Sandii joined the band, changing its rock roots to NewWaveMusic and renaming themselves as Sandii & The [[XtremeKoolLetterz Sunsetz]].
* Theo Lawrence is a French {{Blues}}/{{Rock}} artist who first started his career with a band called Theo Lawrence & The Hearts before going solo.
* Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews was previously named Huey Lewis & The American Express but changed their name after fearing copyright infringement from the credit card company.
* Subverted with the PunkRock supergroup Me First & The Gimme Gimmes which is actually named after a children's book.
* Music/MikeAndTheMechanics were a 1980s supergroup formed as a side project by Music/{{Genesis}} guitarist Mike Rutherford.
* Music/TomPetty And The Heartbreakers. Bandmate Mike Campbell co-wrote some hit songs for the group.
* British rock band {{Queen}} inverted that trope after Music/FreddieMercury's death in 1991, with remaining members resuming touring with a guest vocalist (instead of a new lead singer for the band). They were billed as Queen + Music/AdamLambert and Queen + [[Music/BadCompany Paul Rodgers]] (as a way to not replace Freddie).
* American {{Emo}} band Reggie And The Full Effect is a solo project of James Dewees.
* Music/PaulRevereAndTheRaiders (although the frontman was named Paul Revere Dick and dropped his last name. Bandmate Mark Lindsay also had a huge leading influence in the band as its composer/producer). After the passing of Paul in 2014, the band renamed themselves [[TheBandMinusTheFace Paul Revere's Raiders]].
* Japanese rock band Sheenah & The Rokkets was fronted by Etsuko "'''Sheena'''" Ayukawa until her death in 2015.
* After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Creator/GarySinise began volunteering for [=USO=] tours to visit troops in the Middle East, but soon wanted to do more than shake hands and take pictures. He asked his guitarist buddy, Kemo Williams, to help him round up some singers and musicians, and together they formed "[[LeadBassist Gary Sinise]] and the Lt. Dan Band." Sinise said that since the troops were calling him by his ''Film/ForrestGump'' character's name anyway, it only made sense to name the band after the character, too.
* Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees, fronted by '''Siouxsie Sioux''' (one of The Banshees, Steven Severin, is a frequent co-writer for the band's songs).
* Music/BruceSpringsteen has formed many backing bands during his career, but the most consistent one is the E Street Band. Bruce' 1974 tour for the promotion of ''Music/BornToRun'' was billed as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and that moniker would reappear more or less throughout other tours.
* Music/RingoStarr created his own live band called Ringo Starr & The All-Starr Band, comprised of artists who were former members of 1970/1980s rock bands, making it also a {{Supergroup}}.
* During his tenure with the Faces, the groups' billing changed from "Faces" to "Faces featuring Music/RodStewart" and finally "Rod Stewart and Faces" before Ronnie Lane quit and the group essentially just [[IAmTheBand became Stewart's backing band]].
* Music/TheStooges went on to be renamed Iggy & The Stooges since the release of their third album ''Raw Power''.
* Richard Swift was always credited solo on his albums, since he recorded most of the instruments by himself anyway. But for live shows he had a consistent backing band, so they were billed as Richard Swift and the Sons of National Freedom.
* Music/SteveTaylor initially recorded with Some Band, a frequently changing group of backing musicians. The live album ''Limelight'' is the only one where they're outright billed as "Steve Taylor and Some Band". For the 2014 comeback album ''Goliath'', his new all-star lineup was billed as Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil. This morphed again into Steve Taylor and the Danielson Foil when they recorded a collaboration with [[Music/{{Danielson}} Daniel Smith]].
* The Tremeloes is a british rock band which became famous when they were put against Music/TheBeatles for a contract with Decca Records (the company chose The Tremeloes based on the fact that they lived in London and thus were more accessible). From 1962 to 1966, the band rebranded itself Brian Poole & The Tremeloes, in reference to Music/BuddyHolly And The Crickets.
* Music/RogerWaters has played on tour with a backing band in TheEighties as Roger Waters And The Bleeding Heart Band. They were credited on the soundtrack of the film adaptation of ''ComicBook/WhenTheWindBlows''.
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[[folder: Other Genres]]
* This trope page would be miles long if we included any band that was named "[Artist] and his/her/their Orchestra", so let's just put here that a large amount of 1940s Billboard #1 singles were performed by an artist and their orchestra. Notable artists include Music/GlennMiller, Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman.
* Music/HaruomiHosono released his Exotica-influenced 1978 album ''Paraiso'' under the name Harry Hosono & The Yellow Magic Band. This one-off project (involving Music/RyuichiSakamoto and Music/YukihiroTakahashi) would lead to the creation of Music/YellowMagicOrchestra.
* Belgian Neo-Soul rapper Lous And The Yakuza is the solo act of Marie-Pierra Kakoma. "The Yakuza" refers to her collaborators, whether it is in the studio or on stage.
* {{Reggae}} legend Music/BobMarley started his career with the band The Wailers. Following his major involvement in the band as a writer, their album ''Natty Dread'' was credited to Bob Marley And The Wailers while previous album have been retroactively credited that way.
* Japanese [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]] band Moonriders had its first album credited to Keiichi Suzuki And The Moonriders.
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!!Examples from other media
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[[folder: Comics]]
* The Creator/ArchieComics band ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats which got its own [[WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussyCats series]] and [[Film/JosieAndThePussycats2001 feature film]].
* ComicBook/ScottPilgrim features a band battle between Scott's Sex Bob-omb and Crash And The Boys.
--> '''Crash''': Good Evening. I am Crash, and these are The Boys.
--> '''Wallace''': [[OneOfTheBoys Is that girl]] a boy too?
--> '''Crash''': Yes.
--> ''The drummer [[FlippingTheBird flips him off.]]''
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[[folder: Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension'' has the title character in a band with several members of his inner circle. They go by Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers.
* ''Film/AnimalHouse'' features a FakeBand called "Otis Day and the Knights" that performs in the movie, with Otis Day (played by [=DeWayne=] Jessie) as the lead singer and the Knights as his backup singers/musicians.
* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'': Jake and Elwood are dismayed to find that several of their old bandmates have formed "Murph and the Magictones," a cheesy lounge band.
* ''Film/KingRalph'': After becoming the Third Duke of Warren, Ralph forms a band with several female backup singers called Ralph and The Dukettes.
* ''Film/HighFidelity'': The garage band that Barry joins starts out with the name Sonic Death Monkey, but when they open at the record release party for the Kinky Wizards, Barry announces "we're on the verge of being called Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but for tonight we are Barry Jive and the Uptown Five."
* ''Film/HouseIITheSecondStory'': Charlie and Lana invite themselves to stay at Jesse and Kate's new house while plotting to get Kate (a record company exec) to "discover" Lana's band, Puce Glitz and the Avoiders.
* The eponymous rock band of the Creator/JonathanDemme movie ''Film/RickiAndTheFlash'', led by '''Ricki''' Rendazzo.
* ''Film/ShockTreatment'' features Oscar Drill and the Bits, a "suburban-garage" band that befriends Janet during her ascent at DTV.
* ''Film/ThatThingYouDo:'' At the height of The Wonders' fame, they get a cameo role in a [[ShowWithinAShow teen beach movie]]. Instead of playing themselves, they portray the doubly fictional surf band Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters. This becomes a BrickJoke later when The Wonders are getting interviewed and Lenny confidently cites Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters as one of his biggest musical influences.
* The [[Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker Jim Abrahams]] film ''Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael'' features a cover band called [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment G. Wiliker And The G. Wilikers]].
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[[folder: Literature]]
* In ''Literature/DogsDontTellJokes'', one of the other competitors at the climactic talent show is a band called Howie Zowie and the Screamers, although Gary notes that Howie is only the drummer.
* In the ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' novel "Thank you, Jeeves'', Bertie becomes obsessed with playing the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo_ukulele Banjolele]] after watching a performance by a fictional band called "Ben Bloom and his Sixteen Baltimore Buddies".
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[[folder: Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/FullHouse'', Jesse briefly fronts a band named Jesse and the Rippers. That band's name would be reused when Creator/JohnStamos provided lead vocals on a cover of Music/TheBeachBoys's "Forever" (from their ''Music/SummerInParadise'' album) which was released as a single.
** The band comes back in ''Series/FullerHouse'' and once again, they play a cover of "Forever".
* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
** The show's main band is Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, led by '''Dr. Teeth''' on keyboard.
** A recurring act is a band made up of elderly people called Jerry and the Atrics (a pun on "geriatric").
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[[folder: Theatre]]
* Theatre/HedwigAndTheAngryInch (The Angry Inch being a backing band named after the scar that Hedwig got after an unsuccessful surgery).
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[[folder: Toys]]
* In TheEighties, Franchise/{{Barbie}} launched a line of dolls based around this trope known as "Barbie and the Rockers."
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[[folder: Video Games]]
* Green Tentacle from ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'' is an aspiring musician. When he gets inspiration to start a band, he plans to call it GT and the Suction Cups. In the sequel, ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', we find out that he was successful in starting a band, but it's now called Green T and the Sushi Platter.
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[[folder: WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "American Dream Factory", Steve and his friends form a band called Steve and The Ass-Tones. His friends quit to join another band, so Steve replaces them with a family of illegal Mexican immigrants that Stan is hiding from the authorities and renames the band Steve and The Ass-Tonos.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': The protagonists of the series belong to a band called Jem and the Holograms; "Jem" is the stage name of the main character, Jerrica Benton.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': When the title characters decide to become one-hit wonders, they name their band "Phineas and the Ferbtones."
* ''WesternAnimation/PigCity'': Mikey's cousin Reggie is a member of a HeavyMetal band he formed with his friends that's called "Reg And The Rashers".
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': While [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on soda]], Mordecai and Rigby order custom t-shirts so they can pretend they're in a band called Mordecai And The Rigbys. Mordecai regrets their purchase the next morning because neither of them can play an instrument and the name doesn't make any sense, but he decides that they should become an actual band to impress his crush Margaret.
*''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
**In "Steven and the Stevens", Steven forms a band of the eponymous name consisting of him and three alternate versions of himself made as a result of using a magic hourglass upon realizing that it allows him to travel back in time.
** Sadie's band is called "Sadie Killer and the Suspects," as she's the lead singer, and her frustrated horror-inspired lyrics gave the band its identity.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Hopefully, one of the heartbreakers filled in for Tom's absence at the photoshoot.]]
A band which relies on its frontman might not deserve to be called a band (according to nitpickers). If a band realizes that, it might be best to name the band after that lead artist. But what about the other members? The frontman doesn't want to discredit them, and in some cases they also come up with their own material and stand out from being your average backing band.
Let's call them "[[TitleDrop Artist And The Band]]". This naming device puts emphasis on the band member who provides most of the creative input while also reminding the public that the artist is backed with a group of faithful instrumentalists. In other cases, this isn't the band's native name and a rebranding happened after that one band member made it big with their solo material (or proved to be the FaceOfTheBand). Or in a bigger twist, it could turn out it's just a solo project with a plural name. You may also use variations of that kind of name by using "+" or "And his/her/their".
SubTrope to IAmTheBand and Sister trope to SpotlightStealingTitle which extends to any media (but has the same objective marketing-wise) but also uses other naming conventions besides "X and the Y". Overlaps with FaceOfTheBand and might lead to TheBandMinusTheFace if that lead member leaves and the band doesn't change their moniker.
Not to be confused with the music act known as Music/TheBand. You might affiliate that trope with AndTheRest but it is more used in a derogative manner while Artist And The Band is about highlighting a backing band.
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!!Musical examples
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[[folder: Country]]
* Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys were an American bluegrass band formed by guitarist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs, the Foggy Mountain Boys being a revolving lineup of performers.
* American Country artist Music/JasonIsbell fronts his own band called Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit.
* Music/AlisonKraussAndUnionStation: Krauss is the lead singer and plays fiddle. The Country Music Association has nominated both Krauss for the solo Female Vocalist of the Year award and Alison Krauss & Union Station for Vocal Group of the Year ? sometimes in the same year.
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[[folder: Folk]]
* Music/NekoCase's first two albums were credited to Neko Case & Her Boyfriends. Starting with ''Blacklisted'' it's just been Case by herself.
* FolkMusic legend Music/BobDylan played with Music/TheBand (who served as a backing band) on stage in the mid-sixties and seventies. Their first concerts were billed as Bob Dylan & The Band, and the 1975 album ''Music/TheBasementTapes'' was also credited in that manner (with Dylan writing a majority of the songs though you could also call it an album by The Band).
* Several albums by Canadian [[FolkMusic Folk]]/{{Rock}} artist Music/NeilYoung also feature a band called Crazy Horse (some albums credit the two as "Neil Young & Crazy Horse" or "Neil Young With Crazy Horse). Crazy Horse was originally a doo-wop band called Danny & The Memories (fronted by Crazy Horse lead singer '''Danny''' Whitten) before connecting with Neil in the late [[TheSixties sixites]] and re-establish themselves as a rock act.
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[[folder: Funk]]
* Eric Burdon and War was formed in 1969 when record producer Jerry Goldstein paired the ex-[[Music/TheAnimals Animals]] frontman with some up-and-coming musicians he'd seen performing around Los Angeles. They released two albums together before Burdon left in 1970. The rest of the group, now simply calling themselves [[Music/WarBand War]], would go on to have a very successful recording career of their own.
* The Revolution is one {{Music/Prince}}'s many side projects. The album ''Music/AroundTheWorldInADay'' is credited to Prince And The Revolution (the band was also present on ''Music/NineteenNinetyNineAlbum'' although uncredited).
** After The Revolution disbanded in 1986, Prince assembled a new backing band called The New Power Generation (or sometimes NPG) that played on most of his albums from 1990 on, with five of those albums (beginning with 1991's ''Diamonds & Pearls'') specifically credited to "Prince and the New Power Generation". NPG also released three albums of their own material and have toured independently since Prince's death.
** ''Music/PrincesAssociates'': The Time occasionally referred to themselves as Morris Day and The Time.
* {{Funk}}/{{Soul}} act Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone includes [[BandOfRelatives two brothers and two sisters]] and is named after lead singer/producer '''Sly''' Stone.
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[[folder: Jazz]]
* Some of Music/LouisArmstrong's most important recordings are [[Music/TheCompleteHotFiveAndHotSevenRecordings those with the first bands he led himself]]: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, and Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven.
* Jazz drummer Art Blakey started a hard bop combo initially named The Jazz Messengers. As they became a RevolvingDoorBand, with Blakey himself the only permanent member, the name changed to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Also of note is that Blakey and the early Messengers lineup recorded a few sessions with pianist Horace Silver; initially these were just billed as the Horace Silver Quintet, but compilation rereleases billed them as Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers.
* Early in Music/DukeEllington's career, he performed and recorded as Duke Ellington's Washingtonians, and also put out one album in 1958 as Duke Ellington's Spacemen. But most of the group's career was spent under the more prosaic name Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra.
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[[folder: Pop]]
* Fictional singing group Music/AlvinAndTheChipmunks was originally named David Seville And The Chipmunks (David being the human character who looks after the chipmunks). After the success of [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks 1980s animated series]], their current name appeared on the 1992 album ''Chipmunks in Low Places'' and remained since.
* Music/AntonyAndTheJohnsons is an Art Pop band fronted by Anohni. The Johnsons are a reference to transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson (while no member of the band has Johnson in their name).
* Music/ChristineAndTheQueens is the solo project of French singer Héloïse Letissier. "The Queens" refer to drag queens who would perform for her during the start of her career. Despite changing their moniker to Chris in 2018, her following releases were still credited to Christine And The Queens.
* "At The Hop" is a classic [[TheFifties fifties]] doo-wop song by Danny & The Juniors (fronted by '''Danny''' Rapp). After his death in 1983, the band continued to tour without changing the name.
* An averted example with Music/MarinaDiamandis whose first stage name was Marina And The Diamonds. The "Diamonds" in question aren't any backing band and refer to Marina's fans (explaining it on Myspace: "I am Marina, and you are the diamonds").
* Dion and the Belmonts we're a popular Main/{{Doowop}} vocal quartet in the late 1950s. Even though they were a proper group, not a solo act and backing band, Dion was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without the other three Belmonts in 1989, which caused a great deal of friction between him and the other members.
* The Miami Sound Machine eventually became Music/GloriaEstefan And Miami Sound Machine, before becoming just Gloria Estefan.
** ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' ran a parody of the above situation with the rise and fall of a starlet in a church choir. At first, it's "The Fellows" with just her head sticking out of the row of singers, then it's "The Fellows and Melanie", "Melanie and the Fellows", before apexing at "M" with a closeup of her face. From there it spirals down the way it came, with her a sad, nameless member of the choir again.
** MAD #79 had a similar "Rise and Fall" feature, with the starlet starting as a nameless member of a vocal group, advancing from "The Euclid Phlomm Chorale with Patricia Blousen" to "Patricia Blousen and the Euclid Phlomm Chorale," reaching the peak of her career with an album cover showing "Patti" and a closeup of her face, then gradually declining until once again becoming a nameless member of the Euclid Phlomm Chorale.
* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine is another case of a lead singer-songwriter ('''Florence''' Welsh) backed by a band, however Florence started the band with Isabella Summers who was nicknamed "Machine" while Florence was nicknamed "Robot". It started as an inside joke that got way out of hand and "Florence Robot/Isa Machine" turned into the group we know today.
* Music/FosterThePeople started as "Foster and the people", with Mark Foster in that role, but after several people misheard it as "Foster The People", they decided to opt for that name.
* In her early career, Music/SelenaGomez was part of the group Selena Gomez & the Scene.
* Music/NataliaLafourcade was briefly part of a group called Natalia y La Forquetina for her album ''Casa''.
* Contemporary Christian singer Geoff Moore formed the band Geoff Moore And The Distance in 1987.
* The mainstream success of early sixties vocal group The Ronettes was thanks to Music/RonnieSpector and her vocal performance on "Be My Baby" (in fact, she's the only Ronette who sang on that track). This was acknowledged when the band was revived in TheSeventies under the title Ronnie Spector & The Ronettes.
* Music/FrankieValliAndTheFourSeasons got their current name since 1970. The were previously known as The Four Seasons and their legal name was The Four Seasons Partnership.
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[[folder: Rhythm And Blues]]
* Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames is a british R&B band whose drummer Mitch Mitchell went on to be the drummer of the Music/JimiHendrix Experience.
* Music/GladysKnight & the Pips is a Motown R&B group. It is a BandOfRelatives whose cousin nicknamed "Pip" was an inspiration behind "The Pips".
* Martha Reeves & The Vandellas is a R&B vocal girl group.
* Smokey Robinson and the Miracles was the temporary stage name of R&B vocal group The Miracles from 1965 to 1972.
* The Motown Soul trio Music/TheSupremes featured Music/DianaRoss as its lead singer and changed its name as Diana Ross And The Supremes in 1967 before Diana left the group three years later.
* Booker T. and the [=MGs=] were the house band at Creator/StaxRecords in the 1960s and 70s, fronted by Booker T. Jones on piano and organ and also including Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn, both of whom would later perform with The Blues Brothers. In addition to session playing on many of the albums produced by the label, they also recorded their own albums and had several top ten hits in the United States.
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[[folder: Rock]]
* Early in the career of Music/TheBeachBoys, they had two side-projects bearing that kind of name: Kenny & The Cadets (a trio which had Music/AlJardine and Music/BrianWilson in its lineup) and the Music/CarlWilson-led Carl & The Passions, (whose name would be used as the title of the [[Music/CarlAndThePassionsSoTough album of the same name]]). However, Carl didn't recall that band to ever exist.
** In 1990, lead singer Music/MikeLove toured as Mike Love Of The Beach Boys And The Endless Summer Beach Band, a backing band consisting of musicians who previously were touring members for The Beach Boys, including Music/AdrianBaker.
* Notably averted with Music/TheBeatles. When they were starting out in Liverpool in the late '50s, almost every rock n' roll group followed the naming format "X and the Ys." The future Beatles, then a trio calling themselves the Quarrymen, did not have a dedicated lead singer, with Music/JohnLennon, Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/GeorgeHarrison more or less taking equal time leading songs. They did play this trope straight for a single performance in 1958, where they called themselves "Johnny and the Moondogs."
** The original version of ''Music/LetItBe'' began with Music/JohnLennon jokingly introducing the first song as "'I Dig a Pygmy' by Creator/CharlesHawtrey and the Deaf-Aids!"
* Music/EltonJohn did a fictional example with "Benny And The Jets" from his ''Music/GoodbyeYellowBrickRoad'' album.
* British Art Pop singer-songwriter Music/DavidBowie had his early singles "Liza Jane", "You've Got a Habit of Leaving", and "Can't Help Thinking About Me" respectively credited to Davy Jones with the King Bees, Davy Jones & the Lower Third, and David Bowie with the Lower Third. After the release of "Do Anything You Say", he used the David Bowie stage name for the remainder of his career.
* Music/ElvisCostello & The Attractions. While The Attractions were first a backing band for Elvis, they released their own album in 1980.
* Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen, ironically, doesn't have any member called Echo. It is rumored that the "Echo" was a reference to the drum machine they used before hiring Pete de Freitas as the band's drummer. Nevertheless, frontman Ian [=McCulloch=] has been [[IAmNotShazam mistakenly refered to as "Echo"]] many times.
* Gerry And The Pacemakers is a british [[TheFifties 50s]]/[[TheSixties 60s]] Merseybeat band fronted by '''Gerry''' Marsden, famous for their hit "You'll Never Walk Alone" which became an anthem for Liverpool's soccer team.
* Bill Haley & The Comets is a [[TheFifties 50s]] rock'n'roll act which had numerous hits during that decade. Following Bill's death, seven various iterations of the band have been formed (and are claimed to be a continuation of the original act, with some varying degree of authenticity).
* Music/JimiHendrix was part of various bands before forming The Jimi Hendrix Experience. These bands are Curtis Knight and The Squires, Joey Dee and The Starliters, and Jimmy James and The Blue Flames.
* Music/HavalinaRailCo: After the departure of a key band member, Matt Wignall announced he was marking the shift by changing the band name to Matt Death and the New Intellectuals. Under the new name, they only released a few songs via Myspace, as their finished album wound up [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment getting shelved indefinitely]].
* Music/BuddyHolly was the frontman of a band called "Buddy Holly and the Crickets" before he focused on a short-lived solo career. After Buddy's death in 1959, The Crickets continued performing with Earl Sinks as its lead singer.
* Music/HootieAndTheBlowfish: One of the defining rock bands of mid to late '90s. Also a notable subversion, since [[NonIndicativeName no one in the band is named Hootie and the band itself is not called The Blowfish]]. It was named after two college friends who were nicknamed "Hootie" and "The Blowfish."
* Frank Iero has many side projects such Frank Iero And The Cellabration, Frank Iero And The Patience, and Frank Iero And The Future Violents.
* In the early 1980s, [=DeWayne=] Jessie (the ''Film/AnimalHouse'' actor who played the lead singer Otis Day of the FakeBand Otis Day and the Knights in the film) bought the rights to the band's name and created a real life version of it using a few of his family members.
* Music/JoanJett and the Blackhearts are a hard rock band Jett formed after her first band Music/TheRunaways broke up in 1979.
* Japanese Soft Rock artist Makoto Kubota had a breakthrough with Makoto Kubota & The Sunset Gang in TheSeventies.
** In the early [[TheEighties eighties]], Japanese singer Sandii joined the band, changing its rock roots to NewWaveMusic and renaming themselves as Sandii & The [[XtremeKoolLetterz Sunsetz]].
* Theo Lawrence is a French {{Blues}}/{{Rock}} artist who first started his career with a band called Theo Lawrence & The Hearts before going solo.
* Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews was previously named Huey Lewis & The American Express but changed their name after fearing copyright infringement from the credit card company.
* Subverted with the PunkRock supergroup Me First & The Gimme Gimmes which is actually named after a children's book.
* Music/MikeAndTheMechanics were a 1980s supergroup formed as a side project by Music/{{Genesis}} guitarist Mike Rutherford.
* Music/TomPetty And The Heartbreakers. Bandmate Mike Campbell co-wrote some hit songs for the group.
* British rock band {{Queen}} inverted that trope after Music/FreddieMercury's death in 1991, with remaining members resuming touring with a guest vocalist (instead of a new lead singer for the band). They were billed as Queen + Music/AdamLambert and Queen + [[Music/BadCompany Paul Rodgers]] (as a way to not replace Freddie).
* American {{Emo}} band Reggie And The Full Effect is a solo project of James Dewees.
* Music/PaulRevereAndTheRaiders (although the frontman was named Paul Revere Dick and dropped his last name. Bandmate Mark Lindsay also had a huge leading influence in the band as its composer/producer). After the passing of Paul in 2014, the band renamed themselves [[TheBandMinusTheFace Paul Revere's Raiders]].
* Japanese rock band Sheenah & The Rokkets was fronted by Etsuko "'''Sheena'''" Ayukawa until her death in 2015.
* After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Creator/GarySinise began volunteering for [=USO=] tours to visit troops in the Middle East, but soon wanted to do more than shake hands and take pictures. He asked his guitarist buddy, Kemo Williams, to help him round up some singers and musicians, and together they formed "[[LeadBassist Gary Sinise]] and the Lt. Dan Band." Sinise said that since the troops were calling him by his ''Film/ForrestGump'' character's name anyway, it only made sense to name the band after the character, too.
* Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees, fronted by '''Siouxsie Sioux''' (one of The Banshees, Steven Severin, is a frequent co-writer for the band's songs).
* Music/BruceSpringsteen has formed many backing bands during his career, but the most consistent one is the E Street Band. Bruce' 1974 tour for the promotion of ''Music/BornToRun'' was billed as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and that moniker would reappear more or less throughout other tours.
* Music/RingoStarr created his own live band called Ringo Starr & The All-Starr Band, comprised of artists who were former members of 1970/1980s rock bands, making it also a {{Supergroup}}.
* During his tenure with the Faces, the groups' billing changed from "Faces" to "Faces featuring Music/RodStewart" and finally "Rod Stewart and Faces" before Ronnie Lane quit and the group essentially just [[IAmTheBand became Stewart's backing band]].
* Music/TheStooges went on to be renamed Iggy & The Stooges since the release of their third album ''Raw Power''.
* Richard Swift was always credited solo on his albums, since he recorded most of the instruments by himself anyway. But for live shows he had a consistent backing band, so they were billed as Richard Swift and the Sons of National Freedom.
* Music/SteveTaylor initially recorded with Some Band, a frequently changing group of backing musicians. The live album ''Limelight'' is the only one where they're outright billed as "Steve Taylor and Some Band". For the 2014 comeback album ''Goliath'', his new all-star lineup was billed as Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil. This morphed again into Steve Taylor and the Danielson Foil when they recorded a collaboration with [[Music/{{Danielson}} Daniel Smith]].
* The Tremeloes is a british rock band which became famous when they were put against Music/TheBeatles for a contract with Decca Records (the company chose The Tremeloes based on the fact that they lived in London and thus were more accessible). From 1962 to 1966, the band rebranded itself Brian Poole & The Tremeloes, in reference to Music/BuddyHolly And The Crickets.
* Music/RogerWaters has played on tour with a backing band in TheEighties as Roger Waters And The Bleeding Heart Band. They were credited on the soundtrack of the film adaptation of ''ComicBook/WhenTheWindBlows''.
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* This trope page would be miles long if we included any band that was named "[Artist] and his/her/their Orchestra", so let's just put here that a large amount of 1940s Billboard #1 singles were performed by an artist and their orchestra. Notable artists include Music/GlennMiller, Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman.
* Music/HaruomiHosono released his Exotica-influenced 1978 album ''Paraiso'' under the name Harry Hosono & The Yellow Magic Band. This one-off project (involving Music/RyuichiSakamoto and Music/YukihiroTakahashi) would lead to the creation of Music/YellowMagicOrchestra.
* Belgian Neo-Soul rapper Lous And The Yakuza is the solo act of Marie-Pierra Kakoma. "The Yakuza" refers to her collaborators, whether it is in the studio or on stage.
* {{Reggae}} legend Music/BobMarley started his career with the band The Wailers. Following his major involvement in the band as a writer, their album ''Natty Dread'' was credited to Bob Marley And The Wailers while previous album have been retroactively credited that way.
* Japanese [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]] band Moonriders had its first album credited to Keiichi Suzuki And The Moonriders.
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* The Creator/ArchieComics band ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats which got its own [[WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussyCats series]] and [[Film/JosieAndThePussycats2001 feature film]].
* ComicBook/ScottPilgrim features a band battle between Scott's Sex Bob-omb and Crash And The Boys.
--> '''Crash''': Good Evening. I am Crash, and these are The Boys.
--> '''Wallace''': [[OneOfTheBoys Is that girl]] a boy too?
--> '''Crash''': Yes.
--> ''The drummer [[FlippingTheBird flips him off.]]''
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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension'' has the title character in a band with several members of his inner circle. They go by Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers.
* ''Film/AnimalHouse'' features a FakeBand called "Otis Day and the Knights" that performs in the movie, with Otis Day (played by [=DeWayne=] Jessie) as the lead singer and the Knights as his backup singers/musicians.
* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'': Jake and Elwood are dismayed to find that several of their old bandmates have formed "Murph and the Magictones," a cheesy lounge band.
* ''Film/KingRalph'': After becoming the Third Duke of Warren, Ralph forms a band with several female backup singers called Ralph and The Dukettes.
* ''Film/HighFidelity'': The garage band that Barry joins starts out with the name Sonic Death Monkey, but when they open at the record release party for the Kinky Wizards, Barry announces "we're on the verge of being called Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but for tonight we are Barry Jive and the Uptown Five."
* ''Film/HouseIITheSecondStory'': Charlie and Lana invite themselves to stay at Jesse and Kate's new house while plotting to get Kate (a record company exec) to "discover" Lana's band, Puce Glitz and the Avoiders.
* The eponymous rock band of the Creator/JonathanDemme movie ''Film/RickiAndTheFlash'', led by '''Ricki''' Rendazzo.
* ''Film/ShockTreatment'' features Oscar Drill and the Bits, a "suburban-garage" band that befriends Janet during her ascent at DTV.
* ''Film/ThatThingYouDo:'' At the height of The Wonders' fame, they get a cameo role in a [[ShowWithinAShow teen beach movie]]. Instead of playing themselves, they portray the doubly fictional surf band Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters. This becomes a BrickJoke later when The Wonders are getting interviewed and Lenny confidently cites Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters as one of his biggest musical influences.
* The [[Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker Jim Abrahams]] film ''Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael'' features a cover band called [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment G. Wiliker And The G. Wilikers]].
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* In ''Literature/DogsDontTellJokes'', one of the other competitors at the climactic talent show is a band called Howie Zowie and the Screamers, although Gary notes that Howie is only the drummer.
* In the ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' novel "Thank you, Jeeves'', Bertie becomes obsessed with playing the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo_ukulele Banjolele]] after watching a performance by a fictional band called "Ben Bloom and his Sixteen Baltimore Buddies".
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* In ''Series/FullHouse'', Jesse briefly fronts a band named Jesse and the Rippers. That band's name would be reused when Creator/JohnStamos provided lead vocals on a cover of Music/TheBeachBoys's "Forever" (from their ''Music/SummerInParadise'' album) which was released as a single.
** The band comes back in ''Series/FullerHouse'' and once again, they play a cover of "Forever".
* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
** The show's main band is Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, led by '''Dr. Teeth''' on keyboard.
** A recurring act is a band made up of elderly people called Jerry and the Atrics (a pun on "geriatric").
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* Theatre/HedwigAndTheAngryInch (The Angry Inch being a backing band named after the scar that Hedwig got after an unsuccessful surgery).
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* In TheEighties, Franchise/{{Barbie}} launched a line of dolls based around this trope known as "Barbie and the Rockers."
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* Green Tentacle from ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'' is an aspiring musician. When he gets inspiration to start a band, he plans to call it GT and the Suction Cups. In the sequel, ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', we find out that he was successful in starting a band, but it's now called Green T and the Sushi Platter.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "American Dream Factory", Steve and his friends form a band called Steve and The Ass-Tones. His friends quit to join another band, so Steve replaces them with a family of illegal Mexican immigrants that Stan is hiding from the authorities and renames the band Steve and The Ass-Tonos.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': The protagonists of the series belong to a band called Jem and the Holograms; "Jem" is the stage name of the main character, Jerrica Benton.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': When the title characters decide to become one-hit wonders, they name their band "Phineas and the Ferbtones."
* ''WesternAnimation/PigCity'': Mikey's cousin Reggie is a member of a HeavyMetal band he formed with his friends that's called "Reg And The Rashers".
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': While [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on soda]], Mordecai and Rigby order custom t-shirts so they can pretend they're in a band called Mordecai And The Rigbys. Mordecai regrets their purchase the next morning because neither of them can play an instrument and the name doesn't make any sense, but he decides that they should become an actual band to impress his crush Margaret.
*''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
**In "Steven and the Stevens", Steven forms a band of the eponymous name consisting of him and three alternate versions of himself made as a result of using a magic hourglass upon realizing that it allows him to travel back in time.
** Sadie's band is called "Sadie Killer and the Suspects," as she's the lead singer, and her frustrated horror-inspired lyrics gave the band its identity.
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