Every week, High Fives asks five bands fives questions over five days. This week, we’re getting personal with New Year’s resolutions.

When forced to listen to the sheer aural horror that is modern rock radio (because the classic rock station is playing “The Trees” by Rush and Virgin Radio isn’t playing “We R Who We R” by Ke$ha), the only bright light in a sea of Finger Eleven songs is Tokyo Police Club. Somehow crossing over from indie darlings (remember when we still said “indie darlings”?) to big-time emaciated rock star-types, Tokyo Police Club have succeeded in bringing their sound to a large audience without compromising the originality and energy that made them so attractive to the P4K crowd in the first place. Their most recent album, Champ, still packs all the hyper-kinetic spazziness of their earlier material, but builds it into fully-developed songs that suggest a lot of classic Brit-pop playing in the van on the last few tours. Starting Thursday in Ottawa, the band begins a North American tour that will take them to Toronto and Montreal before dipping down into the States.

Does the change in calendar year make you think / reminisce / care much at all?

Yeah, but only because there aren’t really that many calendar days that have relevance to you when your job is to tour constantly. There are no week-“ends” or M-“ugh”-ndays when you’re on the road; everyday might as well just be a Wednesday. And the change in seasons is something that happens for others back home while you’re out driving from California to Colorado and layering a parka over a bathing suit. So the turning over of a new year is something that can actually give us all a real sense of time passing. Plus, The Barenaked Ladies happen!

Do you normally make New Year’s resolutions? Did you make any this year?

Sure, but I think if you tell them then they won’t come true.

What should the music industry resolve to change in 2011?

I think in 2011, the music industry should resolve to find a better way for us all to observe Christmas, rather than just asking that we give thanks and another yearly contribution to the Beatles.

2011, year of…

Scott Evans, the hunky star on the rise who charmed us all as “Chad – The Mail Clerk” in rom-com-mom-romp Confessions of a Shopaholic. His winning smile is a must-see!

If you could make a New Year’s resolution for another musician, who would you pick, and what would it be?

I’m going to resolve that Graham, our keyboard player, finally get his thumb out of his oscillator and start using it to give the people what they want: 100% more siney, pitchy keyboard solos.