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Their MySpace says: "Clapping is great. Singing along is great. Call-and-response vocals is great. Staccato dueling guitar chords is great. Counting (as in "1,2,3,4!", or even up to 14, the number of times to pump an air rifle) is great. Sad words for happy music is great. Disco drumbeats is great. But Shins-y country style also is great. Keyboards are always great. Dancing is great. Additionally, costume changes, sparklers, dry ice, large stage props, and light shows are great. We started in 2004. We wanted to be a country-music Smiths cover band. We kind of sucked. Some people thought we were geek-rock, and some people thought we were punk, which was probably because we were doing it wrong. We threw out all our songs and wrote new ones. We put out a suggestion box at shows. "Stop standing around like fucking corpses." (Okay.) "More keyboard parts!" (Okay.) "Play 'Whyte Tygre' twice, because it's THAT GOOD." (Okay.) (Thanks.) We started getting better. Now people were saying we sounded like Joe Jackson, which was probably just we were playing the notes right. We won a battle of the bands. We won studio time, which we forgot to use. Instead, we recorded an EP with our friend Brian Slusher from Slushco, which we forgot to release. We opened for Asobi Seksu, The Paper Chase and Oppenheimer. Et cetera. Suddenly, we bought an aboveground pool and demanded that it go up when we played shows. Vainglorious, maybe, but it worked. The real-live-producer Nev Walker found us and off