After the star-studded "We'll Meet Again" singalong and the sleigh ride into eternity with Santa, the Colbert Report rolled credits for the final time with Neutral Milk Hotel's "Holland, 1945" playing in the background. It may have seemed a strange choice, but it's one with personal significance to Stephen Colbert.

Neutral Milk Hotel, the fuzzy-noisy-sweet-sad troubadours who made all this music you kids listen to today possible, is reuniting for five shows this fall. The last time the core lineup of Jeff Mangum, Scott Spillane, Jeremy Barnes, and Julian Koster performed live together was in 1998.