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After a 10-year hiatus, American Music Club is back together!! They’ve recently completed work on a new album, Love Songs For Patriots, which will be released on Merge Records in October 2004. The band tracked the new songs in San Francisco at Closer Recording Studios and mixed the record at The Echo Lab in Denton, TX with Matt Pence (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel)

Mark Eitzel (vocals and guitar) reports that things turned out “much better than I could have ever expected.” ” It’s very inspiring to be working with these great musicians once again,Ó Eitzel recently told RollingStone.com. ” We’re pretty different now. I think we’ve changed a lot. You’d have to in ten years, right?Ó

Forming in San Francisco back in 1983, Mark Eitzel, Vudi and Dan Pearson began by synthesizing their love for rock, country, blues, folk, pop and punk, into an incredibly unique and engaging musical melting pot, featuring Eitzel’s enigmatic presence, heartfelt vocals and brilliant songwriting. Songs often became an unpredictable wedding between their free-form jazz tendencies and Eitzel’s downbeat poetics, eventually landing him ” Best SongwriterÓ accolades in Rolling Stone Critics Poll, not to mention a ÔHot BandÓ pick from the same publication. The band went on to release five, much applauded, full length records on a handful of indie labels before recording their major label debut in 1993. Mercury is considered by many to be a masterpiece of modern popular music and their most focused record. Then, after incessant touring, the band settled down in the spring of 1994 to produce a set of songs that emphasized the line-up’s steadiness and a wealth of new perspective. They called it San Francisco, their seventh album, which laid claim to their critical birthright in an album full of introspective songs that twisted and turned like the ambivalent emotions that created them. Soon after, American Music Club split up, albeit amicably, in 1995. Eitzel went on to create of reservoir of much loved solo efforts, including 60 Watt Silver Lining and The Invisible Man. Danny went on to play with Clodhopper, and release his solo recordings. Tim is a busy producer at his own Closer Recording Studios in San Francisco, and Vudi fronts LA band Clovis de Foret.

Now, after a decade apart, the band is back together and better than ever.

In the summer of 2003, Tim phoned up his AMC bandmates to see if the time might be right to think about playing and recording together again. Eitzel had been working on a batch of songs and the band decided that these would be the seeds for what would become a new record. Things went so well, that the band even decided to hit the road again between recording sessions. AMC played a string of sold out tour dates across Europe and the U.S. in February and March of 2004 including the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, TX.

The brand new album, Love Songs For Patriots, finds American Music Club exploring shimmering sonic textures and harder sounds coupled with Eitzel’s distinctive voice and signature stinging lyrics about love, life, & politics.

AMC are original members Mark Eitzel (vocals, guitar), Dan Pearson (bass), Tim Mooney (drums), Vudi (guitar) and they are joined by new member Jason Borger (keyboards).