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Indie band The Format played their first show in nearly two decades to a sold-out crowd in Phoenix.
The band performed fan favorites and debuted two new songs during the 19-song set.
Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World made a surprise appearance to cover "Hey Jealousy" by the Gin Blossoms.
If you walked the halls of Arizona high schools in the mid-2000s, you were too young to see Nirvana and missed Beatlemania by a couple of generations. You might’ve heard stories from older siblings and friends about the early days of Jimmy Eat World as a local band, but "Bleed American" launched them on to "TRL" before they could really feel like your local band.
Instead, you had The Format . The indie pop/rock group (primarily known as the duo of vocalist Nate Ruess and multi-inst