Can't say I've heard much of their music before but you guys seem to talk them up quite a bit. I'll check 'em out since I'll be watching SNL to admire tonight's host, Scarlett Johansson.
“If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more
successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, uh,
excuse me, in the Republican Party.” (NPR Interview Of Howard Dean
<http://www.breitbart.tv/html/153493.html> , 8/15/08)
Definitely a studio recording type band...Saw them in October with front row seats, center stage (luck of the ticketmaster draw) and walked away feelin' almost nothin'. Probably won't even remember going to the show a few years from now.
I'm not really that big of a fan, and when I saw them, I thought they were pretty darn servicable.
Then again, I was drunk as all hell, chatting up some hotties(who drove my drunk ass home), and Death Cab was just setting the table for TMBG...and I only paid $5.
So there could definitely be some perspective issues at work.