DETROIT,
MI. ( Liquor/ Poker Music) - After receiving extensive international
acclaim, Strange Generation, the debut album from the Michigan-based
quartet Dirty Americans, will receive a long-overdue domestic release
by Liquor and Poker
Music on March 22, 2005.
The 13-track
recording, produced by Paul Ebersold (3
Doors Down, Saliva), was
initially released by Roadrunner Records last March in
Europe and
Japan, where it earned rave reviews. In naming Strange Generation one
of its top releases of the year, the prestigious U.K.-based music
magazine Classic Rock termed the album "shit-kicking classic rock,"
dubbing the band "a welcome modern take on Zep,
Cream and Sabbath."
Kerrang!, meanwhile, named Strange Generation "one of 2004's essential
purchases." In its 4K review, the magazine called the record "rock
music at its uplifting, unpretentious best�with psychedelic harmonies,
feel-good choruses and lashings of ass-shaking soul."
Last
summer, Dirty Americans performed at such high-profile overseas events
as England's Download Festival, Germany's Rock Im Park and Japan's
Summer Sonic Festival. There, they shared stages with a who's who of
rock, from
Motorhead and
Metallica to Jet and The Darkness. Back in
America, the group has developed a burgeoning fanbase throughout the
Midwest, where they've sold thousands of copies of their Kiss 'Em All
Goodbye EP and performed with the likes of Alice Cooper,
Clutch and
Silvertide. Most recently, the band supported Ted Nugent for three
holiday shows, including a sold-out gig at The Palace of Auburn Hills
(home of the NBA's
Detroit Pistons).
Without record label
support, the band � vocalist Myron, guitarist Jeff Piper, bassist Pete
Bever and drummer Jeremiah Pilbeam � has even garnered airplay and
encouragement from such prominent radio outlets as the Detroit
powerhouse WRIF. Doug Podell, WRIF's operations manager and a midday DJ
at the influential station, offered these comments on the group: "Brace
yourself for the next generation of rockers from out of the Motor City.
Straight-ahead rock � add gasoline and light!"
The song that has
received the most attention to date is the title track, Strange
Generation. Liquor and Poker's deluxe Digipak pressing of the album
will include a music video for the song, filmed by acclaimed director
Dale Resteghini (Hatebreed, Mudvayne, Fall Out Boy). Shot at
Morley-Stanwood High School in Central Michigan, the video tells the
story behind the track, according to Myron:
"After the breakup
of my previous band, I needed to do something productive to pass the
time until Dirty Americans was up and running, so I took a long-term
substitute teaching job at a school three hours north of
Detroit in the
middle of nowhere," he explains. "The song covers what a bizarre turn
it was to go from the hurricane of touring to teaching Human Anatomy
and Biology. I went from starting riots with 16-year-old fans to
teaching them about the reproductive system...so strange!"
