we knew the time was ripe for three middle aged dudes to play some old songs about teenage feelings, and stand around tuning guitars for a long time." It’s actually the latter part of that statement that points to American Football's constantly shifting, implacable emotional pull. There isn...
Not long after Polyvinyl Records released American Football’s self-titled debut album in 1999, the band called it quits, having only played a smattering of Champaign-Urbana college house parties and sets at small clubs like Chicago’s legendary Fireside Bowl. Such an inauspicious turn of events...
is one of the most frequently covered indie rock songs, and similarly we're only now beginning to recognize how american football struck an emotional chord, one that’s proven to be every bit as resonant. most read reviews quiet in a world full of noise dawn richard living in the ...
The again self-titledAmerican Footballfinds the band with new material that takes them on a serendipitous detour down a familiar road. It is replete with the swelling emotions that might be spurred on by locked away memories unearthed by a familiar scent or crack in the concrete, or the rush...
year one demos is still a photograph of a band about to grow into themselves. unlike a traditional demo where missed notes and delayed downbeats point towards inexperience, though, american football’s occasional errors sound like a student jotting down a complex equation before they forget it ...
Adam Lambert, the runner-up in season eight, had success as a solo artist and also collaborated with the British rock band Queen, replacing deceased singer Freddie Mercury when the group performed live (as Queen + Adam Lambert). The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most ...
1 My favorite band is American “Backstreet Boys”. I like their songs very much. The main singer in the band is Nick. He is very tall. He is about 185cm. He is the most handsome boy in the band. My friends say Nick is handsome and his voice is wonderful. But I think Brian is...
the Roots, American jazz/hip-hop jam band that was perhaps best known as the house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2009–14) and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014– ). The founding members were Black Thought (Tariq Trotter; b. October 3, 1971, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
It’s our way of keeping the band going. Otherwise, it would have to stop again. You’ve kept plenty busy in other bands since the last American Football album. What specific characteristics make these new songs an American Football project? As opposed to Owen or something? We wrote really...
Soundgarden went on to become the first-ever grunge band to sign to a major label and achieved commercial success along with other grunge contemporaries, such as Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana. The band's two most successful songs to date are "Spoonman" and "Black Hole Sun,...