It's not a surprise that Circle & Square is starting to find its way in the rock world.

The band is made up of young guys from New York City that play up-tempo rock 'n' roll. Given the success of recent New York City rock bands, record executives are most likely salivating for a chance to sign the band.

But Circle & Square sound almost nothing like the preconceived notion of New York rock bands, and the band is glad about that.

"There is nothing wrong with those bands, but I don't think we will be able to ride the wave," drummer Dan Traci said. "We don't sound like any New York rock band. I think trying to be a part of that scene, you have to have that sound."

The band also has to fight another stereotype: wearing black-rimmed glasses. Every member of the band sports the look, which causes the band to get lumped into the "emo" music category. The band jokes about the subdivisions in the classifications of music, though.

"We have a new musical genre that was developed just last night," Traci said. "We have our own scene. It's elect-mo or emo-clash, which is a mix between emo and electro-clash. We get stuck in those categories probably cause we have glasses and guys that play guitar."

Traci dismissed all these labels for the group and said it is just a rock band. The band has been experimenting with a sampler onstage, though, which could bring an interesting aspect to its set.

"Every show has a different vibe to it. Sometimes we have a pop set, sometimes a hard-rocking set," Traci said. "We sort of just choose the songs for whatever crowd we are playing for that night."

But the biggest obstacle for Circle & Square is getting used to being on the road, especially since the band was previously playing about two shows per month. With its current tour, the band will be playing 24 shows in 26 days.

"This is our first tour. We played a lot of shows in Boston and New York," Traci said. "But now we are currently tied with the most number of shows in consecutive nights, which is two. So the tour with Ash and Saves the Day should be interesting for us."

And since some of the band are still students (Traci recently graduated from New York University), this tour is what Traci considers "the first lesson to be a real band."

Not that they didn't have hands-on experience before. Traci works for a booking agent, and the rest of the band works for various venues in New York.

Also, the band is banking on some celebrity advice, that of the one and only Gideon Yago, current MTV News personality. (The band's Web site mentions their friendship to Yago).

"Well, its kind of a joke. Its not like we go way back or anything," Traci said. "But he introduced us to people ... came to our first show ... and helped us out with stuff early on."