The members of the Modlins are really a bunch of your regular "dorky guys" who play music and like to hang out at the same time. The two main songwriters to the group, Matt Sheridan and Eric Killian, first met on San Diego's UCSD campus.

"Basically our mutual friend had some demos that Eric had done and I thought they were really funny," says Sheridan. "They were melodically driven, kinda reminded me of Beatles Anthology outtakes - a lot of goofy pop songs - and I was looking for someone to start writing with and so he and I started writing stuff together."

The two hit it off and pretty soon they were commuting between L.A. and San Diego to write together. But the band's ties to the Beatles did not end there. Before they officially donned their aptly-put moniker, they were called the.beat.less. It was self-deprecating as well as being true (the.beat.less at the time did not have a drummer).

"It's basically Beatles with an extra 's' you know, so the joke was like, 'Oh, if we ever released records and it was in the store it would be right after the Beatles," Sheridan says. But the name wouldn't hold after the band got their drummer, Stoph Rhanor.

Nominated in the San Diego Music Awards for three years in a row, the Modlins finally nabbed an award for Best Pop Album in 2008. "We like the idea of putting out a lot of material," Sheridan says. "That's actually an oldies thing: putting out a lot of material quickly, but still having it at a standard of quality. To us, if we could get nominated three years in a row that means we released albums three years in a row that were well done enough. So that means we're accomplishing our goal. We want to keep it ongoing as much as possible. One of the benefits of being in a small time band who nobody has heard of is that there's not a lot of pressure. The only pressure we get is from ourselves."

The Modlins' latest album, Where does it End?, is a great example of newly released material done with integrity. The record showcases 11 great pop tracks featuring a band driven to prove themselves worthy of once being only one letter away from the Beatles. "Blue Balloon" is an upbeat track that you could get lost in with its melodic force. You'll find yourself humming to the melody during the day and feel happier for having done so. Where does it End?'s upbeatness is almost cathartic and its songs resonate with a kind of oldies appeal everyone can appreciate.

When asked what made them stand out from other bands, Sheridan still deferred that they were "just a bunch of goofy guys." "I think it was like an interest for me having growing up with oldies," he says. "You kinda look at an oldies band and kinda feel these are the kind of guys I'd hang out with. I think that's another thing that happened to music. With indie music there's this ironic detachment thing. And you know it was something I wasn't really into. I mean I like a lot of bands who have that quality, but it's not something I'd like to portray because ?it wouldn't come naturally to me anyway."