"I think oven mitts are gonna be our big thing - and shower curtains. Our merch table is gonna look like Bed, Bath and Beyond," says DJ Suspence, the musical backbone of The Saturday Knights, while explaining how their music is really just a vehicle for them to market products like faux Gucci-print pedometer cases and ab oil. "We enjoy music," one of the group's MCs, Tilson, adds. "But not as much as we enjoy calendars and accessories."

If you haven't caught up with the buzz surrounding the Seattle-based Saturday Knights, then know this: They show the same disregard for genres that they do for answering the earnest, well-though out questions of music writers. The trio blends straightforward hip-hop with rock and pop, adding a heavy-handed dose of the same wit that they bring to interviews. In short, they're like the bastard musical children of the Pharcyde and Beck, raised by tutors like The Eagles of Death Metal while living abroad in a place that speaks English with excellent diction.

After meeting in eHarmony rehab, thanks to a posting under the "free" section of Craigslist, the group started building hype last summer after the release of a stellar EP and some noteworthy performances at 2007's SXSW. The autonomous collective of one DJ and two MCs then decided to delay the release of their full-length debut, titled Mingle, until June of 2008, while they prepared themselves for stardom. "We wanted to make sure that when the album did come out, we were ready," Tilson explains. "We had to make sure our foot speed was a little better cause we're gonna have to do a lot of runnig."