Nick Hodgson, principal songwriter and drummer for the Kaiser Chiefs - the latest Brit band to storm the shores of the United States - isn't tired of talking about where his band stands on the retro continuum, because, well, no one's really asking him about that. Interestingly, Hodgson says that only in America is his group, with its rollicking new-wavish sound, discussed as a nostalgia act.

"Where we come from it doesn't sound retro, but in America people say we sound like '80s stuff. But nobody in England says it. It's weird," Hodgson said. "To us it's really odd because we don't hear it at all. Maybe because in the '80s, American culture was much more interested in the bands like the Cars which didn't make much of an impact in Britain."

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