Indie rock band We Are Scientists ended the American leg of their tour in Pittsburgh at the Brillobox on August 15.  Even with his hectic schedule, bassist and backing vocalist Chris Cain was able to chat before the concert about touring and the band’s new album “Barbara,” all while employing the band’s signature sarcastic humor. What makes “Barbara” stand out from the other albums We Are Scientists has released?Its quality is higher. It’s shorter and sweeter. And it doesn’t have a photograph of us on the cover.What is the background of the song “Pittsburgh?”If you listen to the lyrics, it sort of deals with two people who are sexually in lust. And historically we’ve just found that Pittsburgh is the most carnal of cities.  Not necessarily the most romantic, but just the most carnal.  It’s a very lust-infused environment.  So the story of “Pittsburgh” doesn’t necessarily deal with citizens of Pittsburgh, but it might as well.What do you mean by “carnal?”It’s everywhere. If you go into a bar or even into the Chuck E. Cheese’s, which we did a few years ago, it is a cesspool of sex and infection.  Check it out yourself if you don’t believe me. We were terrified. In most cities, Chuck E. Cheese’s is a bastion for childish wonder, not so in Pittsburgh.  In Pittsburgh, it is a hook-up factory.  Take a look. What is the band’s creative process when creating new music?We sit down in a conference room, usually that we rent from a hotel. Hilton is […] preferred, but Marriot or Radisson is fine.  And we listen to the top 10 hits of each month going back to the last record basically, in the U.S. and also in the U.K.  And the top two hits from Germany and France. We just try to think of ways to rip off those songs- ways to, in a somewhat cloaked manner, lift melodies or arrangement ideas, or even lyrical conceits from those songs.“Pittsburgh,” for example, owes a lot of its lyrical message to “Tik Tok” by Ke$ha.  I could go on and on.Basically, we plagiarize. We are clever plagiarist and excellent musicians.Since you do have a larger U.K. following, what differences are there between U.S. and U.K. audiences?Because we are more popular there, the crowds are bigger, which carries a more intrinsic excitement level with it.  I mean, I wouldn’t push that point too hard.  I’ve been to sold-out shows where the chemistry just really wasn’t there.  Not our shows, but where I’ve been in the audience. The one thing I’ll say about smaller shows, like the one we are going to play tonight at the Brillobox, is that there is a lot more potential for spontaneity.  And you know that stage is like a foot-and-a-half tall; you could and should get off that stage during the show.  At bigger shows, with eight-foot stages and barriers, you are sort of limited to interacting with […] audience.  Shows like these can actually be a lot more fun. The W.A.S. website is very interactive compared to other bands websites.  How important is fan interaction?What we do isn’t necessarily fruitful, but I can say it is one of the more fun aspects of doing what we do.  I couldn’t imagine doing the same sort of pageant every night.  Like, having the website, or videos, or whatever, having other creative opportunities and farming those out to whomever. Musicians are creative personalities. It’s weird to me that they don’t spill over into the various areas they’ve been given.  I mean, no one is going to stop you from doing crazy s— on your website. It’s your web site.  Why let your record company put on stale information? This is your last U.S. tour date before moving on to festivals in Europe.  What’s next once you return from touring?We have a couple [of] weeks off in September and then we are going to do more U.S. touring in October.  We are going to everything we missed on this leg. And then in November we’ll do Europe and the U.K.  And this might be the end of touring for this record; we’ll see how it goes through November.  So we’ll either tour through to next summer or we’ll be done at the end of this year.Next thing is that we want to get back into developing another TV show.  We did some shorts last fall, some 3.5 minute shorts for MTV.  And we got our foot in the door with them.  We got something to put on our “reel,” as they call it in the business, and have had some other interest from networks in the U.K.  We are going to try to do a half hour sitcom, which would take a few months of work at the very least. We’ll probably do that and then jump back into the next record.  It will be acid jazz.  I think we’ve pretty much explored the limits of pop, and we have barely touched acid jazz.  In fact, we haven’t touched it.