renaming the late show band

Don't know if there are any Colbert fans on staff, but The Late Show Band have renamed to The Great Big Joy Machine. (shoulda said something two months ago)

Their album also recently dropped (self titled)

I'm not sure it's as straightforward as that.

In the Steven Colbert Era:

• First they were Stay Human and lead by John Batiste.

• Then Batiste left and they were Lois Cato and The Late Show Band.

• Then the re-branded that lineup to Louis Cato and the Great Big Joy Machine.

John Batiste was never a member of a band called "Lois Cato and The Late Show Band" or "Lois Cato and The Great Big Joy Machine", so just listing all 3 iterations as "The Late Show Band" (like wikipedia does) seems like it gets the job done... but this is an odd situation.

Given the current band entry for The Late Show Band includes members of Stay Human, what do you think is best here?

I think that there should be separate pages for each, and most, if not all, streaming services are listed under "The Great Big Joy Machine."

Cool, when you get to 500 points here, you should be able to create an artist page for each iteration of the band, provided their MusicBrainz database entries see it the same way.

add artist request sent. personally, i'd rename the current entry to "Stay Human" because the duplicate checker registers it for that and name the new one "The Great Big Joy Machine (The Late Show Band)" to cover all the bases

If you sent an add artist request, that means the system couldn't find and auto-approve the artist you wanted to add, right? You tried adding "The Great Big Joy Machine" via Add > Music Artist or Band and it rejected you?

yes

Mods currently have no reasonable way to find Add Artist requests that any of us sent in (I can't even find my own requests). There's a backlog of thousands and the ordering of the names is randomized each time you view the list and paginated across 23 individual pages and counting.

Until the technical situation is resolved behind the scenes, we're all going to have to make do with the artists we're allowed to add ourselves via musicbrainz.

Given I can't find any of Louis Cato's projects on musicbrainz, I'd recommend sticking with The Tonight Show Band for now.

Thanks for you patience. Sorry I don't have a better answer.