This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. American Football were featured in the latest issue of GQ. The “this” is the extraordinary and uncanny story of American Football, who became one of this century’s most influential rock bands in part because they no longer existed. In the weeks after Polyvinyl released the band’s album in September 1999, 21 college radio stations added its tracks to rotation—very respectable, Lunsford remembers, given that the expectations were essentially nil. But as the album seeped onto file-sharing services like Napster and Limewire, the kids who first downloaded it often bought a copy themselves. I worked in a college-town record store right as LP1 entered that growth curve, and I must have slipped hundreds of CD copies into Schoolkids Records paper bags before I finally listened and bought one myself. more Not all embedded content is displayed here. You can view the original to see embedded videos and other embedded content.
Real good read. I think i found them in the early 2000-2001 time frame and never thought id see them even though i saw Owen multiple times. Stoked for the record and the tour in summer.