Lily Matini '03, an Oberlin College Student from Alexandria, VA, sat down with John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants and John Allen of SR-71 before their performances at the Spring Fling Concert. Hear what they had to say about their music and see video excerpts of the interviews. Lifelong friends John Flansburgh and John Linnell started TMBG in 1983, and released their first two albums on the independent label Bar/None. Their quirky style and catchy melodies soon became popular with college students, but it was with the 1990 release of Flood that the group won an international audience and scored a top ten single with "Birdhouse In Your Soul." In the early 90s they joined forces with with guitarist Dan Miller, bassist Dan Wienkauf, and drummer Dan Hickey. A chance meeting in between Mitch Allan and Jeff Reid brought together the first members of SR-71. The two teamed up with drummer Dan Garvin and Guitarist Mark Beauchemin and were first known as Honor Among Thieves. In 1998 RCA signed the group following successful performance and a self-produced and distributed indie CD. Their recent self-titled CD is full of songs that tackle intelligent issues while drawing from the pure sound of drums, guitars and vocals. Drummer John Allen has since joined the band.