As a young boy, I dreamed of being in a band. Circumstances kept me from learning an instrument, and I assumed this made me unenviable as a potential member. Instead, for years, I kept numerous journals documenting potential band names and song titles, confident that they would be needed at the first rehearsal. None of this ever came to be, but I kept going, diligently imagining names and titles—the list grew into the thousands. Years later, as a visual artist, I decided to give life to this archive of bands-that-never-were by creating hundreds of drawings and collages of what I imagined our debut singles and albums might have looked like. Often created in marathon studio sessions, these works aimed to capture the musical styles I loved: DIY punk radicals, resilient divas, wordy melancholics, and suffering troubadours. The materials and design ideas were all sourced from found, discarded, and thrift-store album covers.