After 9/11 Tamra refused to tour, telling her fans that it would by hypocritical to sing songs protesting oil wars while burning fossil fuels during long drives. Lucid Nation has expressed a desire to stay out of the mainstream. "Tacoma Ballet" reached #1 on college and commercial stations with playlists chosen by d.j.s, known as the secondary market in the music business. There was a chart to measure those stations, called the New Music Weekly Combined College Radio and Secondary Chart (aka 'NMW Chart'). By November, without tour support or radio promotion, Lucid Nation had broken through to the top five on the 'NMW Chart' and reached #1 in December 2002, after a six-month climb, with more spins than the Breeders, Beck, or the Pixies, becoming the only freestyle rock record to hit #1.