"We're not a cool band to like.
But who needs beer when you've got a cool band to listen to?
I would rush to think of a cooler band – read: literally any other band – to name-drop.
We also share our studio with a cool band called Hidrogenesse – they play krautrock-influenced electronic music.
Mr. Klosterman declared, "Given the choice between hearing a great band and seeing a cool band, I'll take the latter every single time".
If it does, The Big Midweek is the perfect antidote for anyone who thinks touring America in a cool band is remotely exotic.
"There was this realisation," Hjörvar says of their new audience, "and I said: 'Justin, we're not a cool band.'" "There was a sudden change, wasn't there," Young says of the band's fanbase.
When you click a Facebook "Like" button on other Web sites to tell your friends about a cool band, favorite political candidate or yummy cake recipe, you may know that you are also giving intelligence to Facebook the company, which makes money through targeted advertising.
The staff invariably know the best places to eat and drink locally, and if there happens to be a cool band playing that night, or a wrestling contest in the back of a local feed store, they can usually tell you about that too.
Mr. Fallon does not have a sidekick, but he does have a cool band, the Roots, whose musicians are deadpan and steadfastly underwhelmed by his jokes, and over time that could serve as a comic foil to his eager-to-please persona.
