Starfucker FOREVER ::: photo by Josh Lovseth

Sigh. The cost of success and having your songs on commercials is that a band name with the word fuck featured prominently just doesn’t work. With that in mind, Portland’s electro-pop Starfucker are on the look out for a new name with the help of their fans.

Here’s what the band said today about their name change via a Myspace Blog:

Hey Friends–
Everyone knows our name sucks…so here is your chance to give us a new one. 
The best thing about this new-name game is that we want YOU to help us come up with it. 

There are two ways to vote for Starfucker’s new name. 

*Email your idea to:
newnameideas@gmail.com

OR

*Vote in person at the merch table at any show on our upcoming tour

This will be our last tour as Starfucker! 
Come out and help us usher in a whole new era of…..awesome-band-name-yet-..to-be-determined.
One vote per fan please. 
And of course there are fabulous prizes!  If your name is selected, you will get tons of cool shit!!!
Deadline for ideas is October 1st.

We don’t quite know how we feel about this, because we love the tongue and cheek nature of the name and think it decidedly doesn’t suck.  What does suck, we’re sure, is your band’s name not being able to be said on the radio, all ages venues not booking you because of your name, loosing revenue and potential ads because of your name, and having parents not allow kids to attend your show or buy your album thanks to your name.

So put on your thinking caps Starfucker fans. This band deserves a great name, which conveys the same sense of fun and fuck you, without the fuck of course.

* To get a feel for the band, here’s a Sound on the Sound interview with Starfucker, which covers the origin of their name *