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The Rocklopedia Fakebandica podcast launched April 1st, 2024! Come listen to us nerd out on fictional musicians and bands from all eras, genres, and sources. It's on all major podcasting services, and some minor ones too:

• https://linktr.ee/rocklopedia

Current Article Count

As of today, December 30, 2025, the Rocklopedia Fakebandica has: 7,980 entries!

The Rocklopedia Fakebandica Wiki

Hello and welcome to The Rocklopedia Fakebandica, your online encyclopedia of fictional bands and musicians. It's a wiki, because there's just too dang many fictional bands out there for one person to keep up with!

To find a band or musician, use the search box or click to:

• Browse by YEAR
• Browse by MEDIUM (TV, film, etc.)
• Browse by CATEGORY

Want to contribute? First, you’ll need to email for a login. Then click here to find out HOW DO I ADD A BAND? Don't post spam or make up stuff or you'll get banned.

Rules? Sure, a few:

• Keep it real. - Please only bands/musicians from published sources. There's plenty out there; you don't need to make up any of your own. Cite as much source information as possible.
• Keep it honest. - Please don't cut and paste other people's work. Quoting a modest chunk of source material for context is fine, just credit it.
• Keep it clean. - Please only use four letter words when they are direct quotes, or part of a band's name, lyrics, album title, etc.

Please note this site operates under a Creative Commons license.

6,000 Articles

The Rocklopedia Fakebandica celebrated the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 with its SIX THOUSANDTH entry! The Greek and Roman god of music, Apollo, was entry #6000, added December 31, 2020. A much overlooked entry in the pantheon (pun intended) of fake bands and etc.

5,000 Articles

Thanks to everyone who ever contributed, because on February 28, 2019, we officially hit FIVE THOUSAND articles!

Read more in our press release: File:2019 Rocklopedia Fakebandica 5K Press Release.pdf

External links

• Order the print version from Amazon
• Rock Fiction pathfinder
• Ross, Alex. "Imaginary Concerts: The music of fictional composers." The New Yorker. August 24, 2009.
• Brown, K. D. (Ed.), An Annotated Bibliography and Reference List of Musical Fiction Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
• Gibbs, John R. "A Bibliography of Musical Fiction." University of Washington, Seattle.
• Whitman, Brian. "Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names." from: Ellis, Daniel, Brian Whitman, Adam Berenzweig and Steve Lawrence. "The Quest For Ground Truth in Musical Artist Similarity." In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. 13-17 October 2002, Paris, France.
• The Encyclopedia of Musicians and Bands on Film, Melissa U. D. Goldsmith, Paige A. Willson, Anthony J. Fonseca; Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
• Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University
• The Museum of Imaginary Instruments