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American Music Club was an American, San Francisco-based indie rock band, led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel. [4] Formed in 1982, the band released seven albums before splitting up in 1995. They reformed in 2003 and released two further albums.
American Music Club stood apart in the late 1980s as one of the groups that transformed roots-rock into an intimate, almost transcendental experience. Mark Eitzel's laconic pessimism, halfway between Gram Parsons's calm despair, Nick Drake's funereal lament, and Tim Buckley's dreamy agony, acted as the center of mass for the atmospheric ...
Aug 12, 2024 · After Eitzel's previous punk band Naked Skinnies split he formed American Music Club in 1982. The name was chosen apparently for its nondescript quality, but it also conveyed their American sound encompassing rock, folk, country, punk and even lounge music.
American Music Club was an American, San Francisco-based indie rock band, led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel. Formed in 1982, the band released seven albums before splitting up in 1995. They reformed in 2003 and released two further albums.
Nov 10, 2023 · 35 years ago today, American Music Club released California. How the West was won. Read Mark Eitzel in MAGNET on Bird Of Youth, Buzzcocks, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Giant Sand, Rickie Lee Jones, Elvis Presley, R.E.M., Judee Sill, Patti Smith Group, Songs: Ohia and more:
Feb 27, 2008 · Courtesy of Merge. Led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel, American Music Club began in San Francisco in 1982. Along with Galaxie 500 and Low, the band characterized what would become "slowcore," a...
Feb 20, 2008 · February 20, 2008. In 2004, American Music Club returned from a 10-year hiatus to release Love Songs for Patriots, an angry wartime record that occasionally abandoned their usual palette of...
