Think of Nine Inch Nails with a twist of Bush and a splash of the Clash. That’s the best way to describe Dink.Dink, a band that hates being compared to any sort of rock band out there recently celebrated the release of their second album, Blame It On Tito.’We’re totally rock music,’ said Rob Lightbody, the band’s guitarist/vocalist. ‘You can always start tagging us as industrial, but it’s really all meaningless.’Dink originally got the genre tag of industrial rock because their critics tried to come up with some way to classify them and it seemed to fit, said Sean Carlin, Dink’s lead vocalist.’I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. It’s like anything else- it’s a genre that if you get locked into it, it’s hard to lose. I feel like we’re much more akin to the Clash and the Sex Pistols with a computer than Nine Inch Nails.’Mixing musical genres is what Dink is about, and the extended play Blame It On Tito experiments with a variety of sounds from 60s psychedelic rock with a computer edge to techno, pop and dance.’I always say we’re genre-jumpers. It doesn’t matter what kind of groove or beat it is; if it’s cool, we’ll try it,’ Carlin said. ‘We make a lot of mistakes, personally, professionally, musically. It’s messy. It’s loud. It’s just like life, man.’The band got its start at Kent State University where four of the five members graduated. After picking up Netherlands native and drummer Jer Eddy Van der Kuil, the band has been playing together professionally for the past three years.’We started out just Sean, Jerry (Herring) and I, messing around with a four-track and drinking some beer. We started playing a whole bunch of songs and then decided to make a band,’ Lightbody said.After playing Kent’s bars for about a year, Dink was picked up by Cleveland radio station WENZ 107.9 The End, which featured their songs on a Sunday night local band hour.’We were getting into a regular rotation on WENZ with the local music and some people noticed us,’ Lightbody said.Those ‘people’ turned out to be recruiters from Capitol Records who signed Dink and produced their debut album Dink in 1994.Blame It On Tito will be released as a full-length album this spring while the public must settle with an extended play version featuring about five songs, Lightbody said.On the new album, one song ‘Ohio’ deserves recognition not only because it’s a Neil Young classic but because it depicts the killings that happened at Kent State in May 1970.’The reason we did the song is (Kent State) is kind of finished with it. So we’re trying to make people aware of the fact that it did happen- don’t let it happen again,’ Carlin said.Because they graduated from Kent, the band went up to Kent State’s library, got some sound bites from the archives about the killings and incorporated them into the song.’For us, it’s convenient and highly personal, but it also represents something much bigger,’ Lightbody said.Being college grads, Lightbody said not only did he learn a lot in the classroom but out of it as well.’I forged advisors’ signatures to get into classes I wasn’t supposed to and made a lot of mistakes but I learned a lot in many ways,’ he said.And considering the plethora of modern rock bands in the music world, Lightbody said he really has no idea how to categorize any of them.’What exactly is alternative? Is Pearl Jam alternative? Maybe you could lump the entire Seattle sound together,’ he said.