Where: Maintenance Shop

When: 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27

Cost: $6 students, $8 public ($1 increase day of show)

From: Peoria, Ill.

Latest album: “In the Shadow of Two Gunmen”

Band members: Dustin Addis – lead vocals/guitar, Shannon Burns – bass/vocals, Matt Webb – guitar/vocals, Tony Peck- drums

Influences: “We are influenced by our surroundings and our families. We all came from pretty musically knowledgeable and nurturing families in the Midwest.”

Musical influences: Braid, The Get Up Kids, Rainer Maria, The Anniversary, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr., Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC, Allman Brothers Band, The Beach Boys, The Zombies

What is the group’s story? “We are Midwest kids. We are no different from any other kid who grew up in a small town in the Midwest: farming, playing high school sports, driving endlessly on gravel roads all night because there ain’t nothing else to do but hang out at a parking lot somewhere and talk about the weekend. We grew up loving the Midwest and loving music and we just wanted to do it ourselves. We wanted to be our heroes, that’s pretty much it.”

What is the story behind your name? “Dustin came up with the name randomly. There is no real backstory to it. We are not meteorologists. We aren’t like super into the weather. We can’t predict the weather. Rain isn’t fun. We really enjoy autumn. No serious meaning.”

Hypothetically, you guys are all in sitting in jail – how did you guys end up there? “Drunk in public. Public obscenity.”

What is your best on-the-road story so far? “Well, recently, Dustin came across $180 of karma money under a gas station rug. We call it karma money because after he found it, he lost his iPod, we hit a deer, and our laptop crashed. That was sort of interesting. Don’t pick up large amounts of random stray money at gas stations; your life will fall apart at the seams.”

– By Carrie Fossum,

Daily Staff Writer