American Football – michael jarmer

#825: O is for Owen

Fourteen years after Mike Kinsella’s debut into the music world with American Football, he releases this, his 14th! solo recording under the unlikely moniker of Owen. I think I foundAmerican Football backwards only after finding Owen first. I don’t remember, in 2013, how I found him or why I landed on this record first, orContinue reading “#825: O is for Owen”

#595: A is for American Football

Describing genre these daysis like naming every spider species–of which there are 50,000. Wikipedia calls American Footballan “emo” band. I find the term “emo”to be about as helpful in describingmusic as it would be to distinguishwhat you’re doing in the kitchen rightnow as “food cooking,” as if there are types of music out there deliberatelyContinue reading “#595: A is for American Football”