Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives

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Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives is a rock-and-roll band based in Boston, Massachusetts.

The band is known for its lyrical wit and quirky subject matter, including such topics as Noam Chomsky's linguistics theories ("The Benefits of Language"), the Time Cube ("Time Cube"), the Heaven's Gate cult ("Hale-Bopp"), and the Star Wars movies ("Tatooine"), as well as songs about female musicians such as Liz Phair, Laurie Anderson or Kim Deal written in the respective musician's style. Also, the song "Without You" is written in the style of and references early Beatles songs, including "I Saw Her Standing There" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

The band's song "Hey" is featured in the video game Guitar Hero, while another track, "Soy Bomb", is featured in Guitar Hero II. Their song "I Get By" is featured in the game Rock Band. In addition, their song "Red Integra" was featured on the NPR program Car Talk.

For their second album, Second and Eighteen, the band recorded a cover of the popular Nine Inch Nails song "Head Like a Hole".