America Owns The Moon - Tiger EP/CD
- TRACKLIST
- 1. The Hard Way mp3 3.0mb
- 2. Ping Pong mp3 3.0mb
- 3. D E G A mp3 2.0mb
- 4. Otherwise mp3 2.4mb
- 5. Freakout! mp3 2.2mb
- 6. Everything Is Gay mp3 2.9mb
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Recorded and mixed live to 2 track stereo at Engine Room Audio (INDPLS) by Jim Kuczkowski on April 26th & 27th, 2003.
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06.01.2007 AOTM @ The Melody Inn
May 2007
06.02.2007 AOTM @ Monon Manor
May 2007
Bio
We started playing together as America Owns The Moon at the Lexington House (RIP) in Fountain Square in the summer of the year 2000. We were recording one of Taylor's songs called, Let's Pretend We're Retarded. Brad Palmer was at the helm. We decided to become a band based on that recording and on the pretext that if it ever started 'to suck' we would quit.
We played together for a year before playing shows. At some point, the Lexington House caught fire. It was electrical and may have had something to do with one of the many occasions in which we used the chandelier in a similar manor as the gremlins when they took over the movie theater.
AOTM went on hiatus for nearly 9 months.
Once everyone had a home again we got back at it. We recorded a 5 song ep and played many more shows. Somewhere in there we approached Kooch or he approached us about doing a live to 2 track recording to demo songs for the full-length he wanted to do. We recorded and mixed it live during the last weekend of April. We liked it so much, we wanted to put it out as an ep. Benchmark Records put it out as the Tiger EP. We played more shows. We started working on the full-length, but money and time were always factors and the recording was never finished.
It finally started to suck in 2005 so we called it quits.
About nine months later it stopped sucking and we started playing again. Then I moved to San Francisco at the end of 2006 putting AOTM on indefinite hiatus.
That's the best I can remember it. Details will be added as they become clear.
Reviews
America Owns the Moon may be the only modern post-punk band that matters. Like a confrontational Elvis Costello, complete with wordy hooks. America Owns the Moon exists in a musical realm where indie rock, and punk meet."
The Kooch --Engine Room Audio INDPLS
These guys are sub culturing their own scene in Indy. They are doing things that no one else in this town has attempted to put a finger on. Loose and witty, this postmodern band evokes the Replacements and the Attractions, musically, and Tom Waits, lyrically. The combination makes for one of the most original bands in Indiana.
Danica Johnson --NUVO Newsweekly
Their punk energy was channeled into wonderfully written pop songs. In between sometimes-bizarre stage banter, AOTM brought to life musical tales full of crashing guitars, sweetly layered vocals, and tight rhythms.
Ryan Williams --Indianapolismusic.net
America Owns the Moon, "Tiger" EP, Benchmark Records
The band called America Owns the Moon also has a lock on primitive cool. Propelled by two guitars, a bass and a drum kit, this Indianapolis band delivers echoes of Nick Lowe in short, sharp shocks. And because this EP was recorded live to two-track stereo, the songs crackle and pop with delicious urgency. Any technical flaws are merely reflections of flesh and blood. Primed to descend on any terrestrial city and kick-start a party, America Owns the Moon can call on rave-ups "The Hard Way" and "Freakout" -- each blessed with a heart-clutching instrumental breakdown. But wait: Four more keepers reveal the versatility of AOTM. During "Ping Pong," the tender confessions of vocalist Chris Taylor careen into frustrated rage. And check out the poison-penned advice of "Otherwise": "Why don't you waste your time, instead of someone else's?"