Maybe you've seen them on MTV, when they appeared on You Hear it First in 2006.

Perhaps you've seen them on the Internet in "Banana Man," a music video featured on the Albino Blacksheep Web site. You could have even seen them live, rocking out while they wear their signature colored ties.

If you haven't, however, you'll get your chance to see the guys from Tally Hall, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based rock band, at this week's Roustabout!

The band will be headlining the show on Sunday evening at Chronic Town, 224 W. College Ave. The show, which starts at 8, will feature two other out-of-towners: Via Audio, an indie-rock band from Brooklyn, and Skybox, a band that plays what it describes as A.D.D. rock, from Chicago.

Although it hails from the north, Tally Hall is a State College veteran, said keyboardist and vocalist Andrew Horowitz.

"Chronic Town is one of my favorite venues, actually," Horowitz said. "It's really laid-back, and we get to communicate more with the audience than some larger venues."

Aimee Turetsky (sophomore-music) said when she first saw Tally Hall live, she became instantly obsessed.

"I got immediately hooked on their music, and now they're my favorite band," Turetsky said.

She said one of the reasons she likes the band is because they're regular out-of-college kids.

"Plus, their music is new. It's not the typical rock band; they have their own unique sound, almost like one type of sound for every song," Turetsky said.

Formed in December of 2002, Tally Hall recently switched from Quack!Media to a major record label, Atlantic Records. Atlantic has scheduled a re-release for Tally Hall's first and only album, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, in 2008, Horowitz said.

"We went to the studio and fixed up some of the rough spots," Horowitz said, explaining that the band re-recorded every single song. "People who have been listening to our album for a long time, they'll be able to tell. It just sounds better."

Although Horowitz speaks of how the band didn't have much time in the studio, the members tried hard to make it the best that they could at the time.

"In it's past form, it was a little off, but now we're comfortable with it," Horowitz said.

To pass the time before the re-release, the band has also been working on a video project, the details of which have not yet been released to the public. While Horowitz would not give out much information, he did say the project should be released in early 2008, in conjunction with the album.

"It's video-oriented and all-encompassing," Horowitz said. "We needed to keep ourselves busy, so we're doing this video thing until the album comes out. After the album comes out, though, we hope to be popping out albums left and right."

Tally Hall considers its film shorts to be almost as important as its music in contributing to the essence of the group. The group began making videos when the band members were in college because guitarist and vocalist Joe Hawley was studying film.

"He would make short skits with video groups that they put together," Horowitz said. "Basically, we would start putting stuff online, and the videos became pretty popular."

Turetsky said she thinks that through showing its videos online, Tally Hall is also establishing itself musically.

"They were aired on VH1, and their shorts made them the No. 1 hit on the Internet. I think if they make more videos, especially featuring music, I'm sure people will be interested in them and then their music by association," Turetsky said.

She also said although this will be her fifth time seeing Tally Hall live, she is still incredibly excited.

"I can definitely imagine how girls in the 1960s must have felt when they went to see the Beatles," she said. "It's kind of silly, but I have the same reaction to Tally Hall."