Best Band Name That Sounds Like a Pee-wee’s Playhouse Character

Way before The Matrix, a struggling actor named Laurence Fishburne donned Jheri curls and a ten-gallon hat to play a character called Cowboy Curtis on the Saturday-morning kids’ show, Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Today we have Cowboy Curse, a trio featuring bassist Tyler Campo, singer/guitarist Ben Bergstrand, and Ben’s brother, Josh Bergstrand of the Symptoms, on drums. The band name actually comes from a pitchforkmedia.com article that talks about how touring acts view Denver as a cursed place. But it’s much more fun to imagine Cowboy Curtis perched on the band’s shoulder like a muse, belting out bucktoothed harmonies and playing air guitar to Cowboy Curse’s angelic, Shins-infused indie pop.