Boys Like Girls in USA Today

Check out my piece on Boys Like Girls in USA Today. Among other things, lead singer Martin Johnson talks about the first time the group heard "The Great Escape" on the radio. The article has only part of his quote on that, so here's the long version:

"The first time we heard ourselves on the radio was in the van at about 3 a.m. We were all in the van. i was driving. The van's usually pretty spooked out when I'm driving, because I'm a pretty bad driver. They had finally gotten to sleep when the song came on the radio. I started screaming at the top of my lungs for everybody to wake up. They thought I was about to crash the van. It took them two minutes to realize the song was on the radio. We were all screaming and jumping - it was a very That Thing You Do moment.

"It was also really special because we were in the middle of hte desert, either New Mexico or Arizona. We were so far from home, so far from Boston. To hear your song in a place so far away and to be next to your best friends when you get that moment, that's pretty special."