The Dan Band

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The Dan Band
Origin	Los Angeles, United States
Genre(s)	Comedy rock Indie rock R&B / Soul
Label(s)	SideOneDummy Records Reincarnate Records

The Dan Band is a band from Los Angeles, California, created by actor/comedian Dan Finnerty. The band is well known for its covers of originally female-performed pop songs, with added obscenities and swearing. They have often been praised for their humor, irony, and tight musicianship.

The band made notable appearances in the movies Old School (with Finnerty singing "Total Eclipse of the Heart"), The Terminal, and Starsky & Hutch, where the band performed Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Makin' Love" at a Bat Mitzvah. They subsequently appeared on the Old School soundtrack. In 2005, the band released The Dan Band Live, their live full length debut album. They gained some attention due to their expletive-heavy version of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart," as well as their cover versions of "Lady" by Styx, "Milkshake" by Kelis, Toni Basil's "Mickey," and many others.

They recently filmed a one hour concert special of their live show called Dan Finnerty & The Dan Band: I Am Woman, for the Bravo network, which was directed by McG and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. On November 13, 2007, the band released a Christmas LP called Ho: A Dan Band Christmas through Reincarnate Records and Dave Matthews' label ATO Records. The album consisted completely of original Dan Band songs, with no covers. Songs on the album include "Ho, Ho, Ho" (a smooth R&B Christmas song about a prostitute) "Merry Christmakwanzakah", "Please Don't Bomb Nobody This Holiday" and "I Wanna Rock You Hard This Christmas."