THE FORMULA: Hall & Oates + Brooklyn Hipsters – Irony = Tigercity

They’re firmly entrenched members of Brooklyn’s underground rock scene, but the members of New York City foursome Tigercity have roots that trace back to Western Massachusetts’ liberal Hampshire College. The group’s core members, singer (and Hampshire alum) Bill Gillim, 30, and bassist Joel Ford, 25, met back in 2004 on the campus blacktop. (Ford had graduated from the University of Massachusetts a few years prior, and, like Gillim, was still living and working in Western Mass.) “We were playing a game of hipster pick-up basketball with about fifteen other people,” says Gillim, who goes on to clarify the niche sport as “some throwback Converse sneakers, some long hair, and some guys who aren’t very good at basketball.” (more…)