Drinkify the Locals: What Kind of Booze Is Your Favorite Local Band?

If you get around on the Internet, perhaps you've already seen

. It's the hot new memetastic site that takes whatever band you're listening to and converts it into its alcoholic equivalent. Sometimes the band in question equates to a mixed drink, sometimes a simple beer. What logarithms or parabolas or whatevers Drinkify uses to calculate the drink in question I cannot tell you. I can, however, give you some examples that might help us determine what — if any — kind of system/scale we're working with.

is basically a whiskey-tonic with ice cream in it.

are 6 oz. of Mezcal garnished with an olive, while

are 10 oz. of rum on the rocks.

is a flaming shot of Chinese liquor (Maotai) with orange juice, and

is a full bottle of Champagne (you're damn right he is).

is 1 oz. of a wine cooler (which, LOL x 100, but I give Dolly a bit more credit than that), and

is a Bud Light with some mint in it. Which isn't for everybody, but then again, neither is Porter. After all, if you don't like mint, you can always just go with a

.

OK. So I think I'm beginning to get it. Sometimes you've got genuinely applicable qualities like geographical location and general hipness as factors (see Animal Collective), and ... well, I was going to say that sometimes the selection appears to be entirely random, but almost everything seems to make sense on some level. Sure, Fat Tire is American, but, like Radiohead, it's popular among smart people. (Also, as you'll see from The Seeds, The Move and Gang of Four, alcohol isn't the only drug utilized in the Drinkify formula.)

So what say we give this thing the local treatment? Doesn't that sound fun?! Have a look after the jump to see what kind of drinks the Nashville-residing rock 'n' roll set equates to. Also, props on this post go to onetime Cream contributor and current Alaskan arts writer Matt Sullivan for sending along the idea. Nice thinking, Sully.