Like a rose plugged into a stack of amplifiers, a band by any other name is still the same band. For what's in a name, anyway? Not a whole lot, if you ask Josh Hodges. A couple of years ago, when he ...

Sick of all those fake instruments cluttering up your living room? Try Korean-made Funny Band, which takes a guitar and shoves drums on the back and a keyboard on the front for some insane reason.

Since the 1975’s debut in 2013, each successive album from the band has felt like a response to a dare. The most reliable constant has been the group’s brazen insistence on scrambling its sound — a ...