tribute band

noun

1. a group that plays the songs of a band they admire, often dressing in the style of the original band members

Example Sentences

For most of the way, though, “Shadow Ticket” may remind you of an exceptionally tight tribute band, playing the oldies so lovingly that you might as well be listening to your old, long-since-unloaded vinyl.

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This event, from 2 to 4 p.m., will feature live music from an ’80s tribute band known as the Molly Ringwald Project.

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She said that three years later, the penny dropped when she went to watch an Oasis tribute band.

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“My mind clicked in. I said, ‘The Dead Kennedys are a tribute band to John and Robert Kennedy.

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The movie opened strong but came to feel like a tribute band that exists only because they came up with the perfect punny name.

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