[1] The band was formed in 2000 when David Combs met Max Levine while attending highschool at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School.
Instead he invited several of his friends to start a new band that would play full sets of cover songs to be requested by Max Levine.
In 2003 they released their third full length, "How to Build an Intergalactic Time Machine" recorded with Hugh McElroy of the Black Eyes.
[1][4] In December 2009, synchronous to a five-week US-tour, the band self-released a cassette tape EP entitled "Them Steadily Depressing, Low Down Mind Messing, Post Modern Recession Blues."
In December 2011, the band embarked on a seven-week US-tour in support of their EP, "The Elephant in the Room," released on 7-inch and cassette by Fuck You is a Seven Letter Word Records.