For their album “The Beat Inside My Head,” Pro-Midgit Mafia found lyrical inspiration in everything from their dislike of Kenny G to unrequited love for a waitress at a pizzeria, expressed in “Pizza Girl.” The story goes: After an unsuccessful first show, the disappointed band members went to the restaurant where their drummer, Ryan Hicks, worked at the time, said Mike Loggins, Pro Midgit Mafia guitarist.”The girl who served us was absolutely drop-dead gorgeous,” Loggins said, “and we wrote a song about her, because our guitar player was pretty much stalking her.”Hicks quit the restaurant and the band stopped hanging out at the pizzeria before the waitress’ feeling could be discovered, Loggins said.”We think she’s scared of us,” he said with a laugh.Because the band members attend Indiana University, they are currently not touring, but are making an exception to play the Skalloween show tonight with The Articles at Skankland.The band was formed two years ago, when guitarist and vocalist Matt Cregor and trumpet player Paul Zablocki were college freshmen. The two struck up a conversation because they were wearing the same Skankin’ Pickle T-shirts and eventually decided to form a band.After posting fliers all over Bloomington, Cregor and Zablocki were joined by Loggins, Hicks, baritone saxophone player Josh Levy, bassist Ian Schmutte, keyboard player and vocalist Andy Thomas and trumpet players Joel Auxier and Gabe Diggs. The band got its moniker from a high-school movie that Zablocki never got around to filming, Loggins said. The music of Pro-Midgit Mafia can be described as two-tone and traditional ska, yet jazz oriented as well, Loggins said. Their sound is also very horn-heavy, he said.”When we’re playing our faster stuff, we’re very poppy, but when we’re playing our slower stuff, we’re very jazz-sounding,” he said. “We also have a swing style.”The location of the band affects its sound, Loggins said.”We’re from the Midwest,” he said. “It’s a different sound and style.”The size of the ska scene, which is almost nonexistent in Bloomington, also influences the music of Pro Midgit Mafia, Loggins said.Since the band formed, Pro-Midgit Mafia has had the opportunity to play with the Skatalites, the Scofflaws, Skavoovie and the Epitones, the Atomic Fireballs, MU330, Siren Six and Johnny Socko.”The band is only two years old, and in that time, we’ve played with pretty much every big name in ska,” Loggins said. “So I’d say that’s pretty much the most amazing think that’s happened to this band.”