fun. – Doyle's Space

The Format – Doyle’s Space: Music Hall of Fame – Shining Star Award

Their music combined power pop, indie rock, folk-pop, alternative rock and elements of older pop songwriting.

The Format is an American indie-pop and power-pop band formed in Arizona in 2002 by childhood friends Nate Ruess and Sam Means. The two had actually met several years earlier, bonding over their shared enthusiasm for bands such as Weezer, and eventually began making music together. Before The Format, they were members of the emo-oriented group Nevergonnascore, but Ruess and Means eventually became dissatisfied with the limitations of that style and wanted to write more melodic, carefully arranged pop songs.

My Favorite Albums – Interventions + Lullabies – The Format

You know me, oh you think you do, you just don’t seem to see,
I’ve been waiting all this time to be something I can’t define.
So let’s cause a scene, clap our hands and stomp our feet or something,
Yeah something, I’ve just gotta get myself over me.

Interventions + Lullabies was the debut full-length album by The Format, released on October 21, 2003, through Elektra Records, introducing listeners to the creative partnership of vocalist Nate Ruess and multi-instrumentalist Sam Means years before Ruess would become internationally famous with the band fun.