The Format News

Nate Ruess was in the briefly-almost-famous indie band The Format until they broke up in early 2008.

Since The Format went on hiatus a few years ago, the once unconquerable Peoria duo - Nate Ruess and Sam Means - have gone their separate ways.

Nate Ruess from the band fun. energetically gets the crowd involved in a song during their concert at Club 156 in Boulder Tuesday.

Love Like This Review Posted by Vanessa Willoughby on 10.24.2009 Hailing from Scottsdale, Arizona, The Summer Set consists of brothers Stephen and John Gomez , in addition to Josh Montgomery , Brian Dales , and Jess Bowen .

Nate Ruess, the former front man of The Format, has a new band that appears to have chosen their name based solely on how difficult it would be to write about and refer to them.

The opening line of Aim and Ignite - "As I walk through the streets of my new city, I'm back feeling much better, I suppose" - is the same sort of heart-on-the-sleeve sentimentality that distinguished fun.

Fun's brilliantly catchy "All the Pretty Girls" is the definition of pop. courtesy of the artist Fun's brilliantly catchy "All the Pretty Girls" is the definition of pop.

Local pop/rock band Color the Coast was recently named one of only two local bands to be playing on the Pepsi Stage at BayFest.

Cheap Trick, superstar pop rock band of the 70s, has released 'The Latest' on 8-track. If you remember the 8-track, you will recall that they were the predecessor to the cassette.

Finnish CD-R label Luovaja delighted me with three fresh releases from their roster; two of them of Finnish origins, one from Russia.