Hey everyone. We're playing catch-up for the second week in a row on Undeclared Rock. This week's podcast was actually recorded about three weeks ago, and it features the wonderful Alphabetical Order.

TAO have been in the studio on Undeclared Rock before...actually I think they've done more in-studios and interviews at the station than any other band over the last two years...but there's a reason for that. For one thing, they do their own interview, which means I (Or whoever is doing the interview) hardly has to talk at all. For another thing, they're all really great songwriters and musicians, and this in-studio here shows that.

You see, normally TAO is a super loud R-O-C-K rock band that gets a lot of comparisons to early 90's grunge bands and..uhh...some local DC group that starts with an F...name isn't a real word...they're kinda punk.....ahh, I can't remember. But in any case, they sound like them, apparently.

That said, these guys have more than enough of their own energy and compositional style to seem more like a celebration of loud and heavy rock songs, as opposed to a mere impersonation of them.

For this in-studio, Gavin and Gabe busted out the acoustic guitars, and bassist Kate whipped out the cello to play many of the songs off their debut LP I Am Magically Happening, but in an entirely different way than you hear on the album itself.

The more astute TAO fans among you will notice that I accidentally cut off the first few seconds of the song ("Submarines") that begins the podcast. That was my fault - I was an idiot and didn't press "record" until it was past that point. That said, I still think I timed it pretty well.

Let me know what you think! We'll hopefully be back this weekend with a brand new in-studio that WON'T be delayed by three weeks before it goes up.

Thanks for listening,
-A