Alternative History
Tally Hall
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Tally Hall in 2009; from left and right: Andrew Horowitz, Ross Federman, Rob Cantor, Joe Hawley and Zubin Sedghi.
Background information
Origin Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Genres Alternative rock, Indie pop, Progressive pop, Power pop, Hip hop
Years active 2002-present
Labels Quack! Media - Atlantic - Needlejuice - Columbia
Associated acts
  • The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger
  • Tame Impala
  • Fun.
  • OneRepublic
Website tallyhall.com
Members
Rob Cantor
Joe Hawley
Andrew Horowitz
Zubin Sedghi
Ross Federman
Past members
Steve Gallagher

Tally Hall (sometimes stylized as tallyhall) is an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in December 2002. The band is known for upbeat melodies and whimsical lyrics, and lyrical themes of nostalgia, self-resolve, and nonsensicality. The members originally described their musical style as "wonky rock," later redefining their sound as "fabloo" (fə-blōō), in an effort to not let their music be defined by any particular genres after people began to start defining the characteristics of "wonky rock". Tally Hall has five members, each of them distinguished by the color of their neckties: guitarist Rob Cantor (yellow), guitarist Joe Hawley (red), drummer Ross Federman (gray), keyboardist Andrew Horowitz (green), and bassist Zubin Sedghi (blue). Every member has provided vocals for the band.

Horowitz, the only member not originally from Michigan, began writing songs when he was eight years old, and attended the University of Michigan, studying composition. There he met Cantor, who had both attended high school with Sedghi and joined Hawley's film production group. When Tally Hall's original drummer, Steve Gallagher, left the band in May 2004, they recruited Federman, who had gone to high school with Hawley. In 2005, the band released their debut studio album, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, on the local label Quack!Media. Violinist Jeremy Kittel contributed strings to the album. They re-released the album on September 12, 2006. Tally Hall went on to receive national media attention, performing their song "Good Day" on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on August 2, 2006, as well as appearing in MTV's segment You Hear It First in September 2006. In August 2008, Tally Hall was a performer on the BMI stage at Lollapalooza.

Their second album, Good & Evil, was released in 2011, and their third album, Hawaii: Part II, was released in 2013. The band reached worldwide prominence by 2013 due to various hits on the album, alongside television interviews and appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live. Some Tally Hall members (Cantor, Hawley, and Sedghi) also provided the vocals and music for all of the songs in Happy Monster Band, a children's television series that aired on Playhouse Disney.

Tally Hall is one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, with a total of 115 million records sold worldwide by 2019.