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It wasn't very long ago...like last year? Panic! at the Disco was an over-stylized, super-popular circus/emo band who, believe it or not, had some pretty great songs under their young white belts. Not satisfied with their remarkable success, however, they decided to take things in a completely different direction in 2008. The exclamation point and the Moulin Rouge antics have been dropped, and their new record sounds more like a dumbed down, Walrus-era Beatles knockoff than Fever 2.0. But while the sound had changed, the set design at Roseland this week was the capper. Pseudo-psychedelic paper cut video backdrops, foliage crawling up the mic stands and untucked oxford cloth shirts and vests. This was no longer the same band -- in fact, it's hard to even see these guys as a band, in the traditional sense; they're a performance act. Their job is not to create music people can relate to and embrace, but to put on a show. (pic via Fueled by Meghan's flickr)