Emo-pop outfit Cute Is What We Aim For emerged from Buffalo, NY, in January 2005. Originally a quintet, the band ultimately stripped down to four members: vocalist Shaant Hacikyan, guitarist/pianist Jeff Czum, drummer Tom Falcone, and bassist/guitarist Fred Cimato. Wasting little time, they recorded some demos that landed them on Fueled by Ramen before the year's end, and hooked up with producer Matt Squire (Northstar, Panic! ...full biography