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About Me

Hiii, I'm Allison . I started this fanspace in the summer of '06 because My American Heart is my favorite band & I know alot of other people love them too. This site is not run by the band! I can't seem to stress that enough. Please don't send me things for them, they won't get it. But feel free to leave me messages and comments, I try my best to reply to everyone :) and check out all the stuff I've got on here!
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Biography:
Age doesn’t necessarily denote musical prowess, but for My American Heart, a band who wrote their debut when most of the members were merely 16, making great music has only been augmented by three years of touring, practice and acquired knowledge. The San Diego fivesome’s dynamic, innovative second record reverberates with a sense of newfound wisdom and the sort of skill that comes only from that hard-earned experience, a reminder of how shockingly young the makers of the record actually are. The strikingly varied disc, metaphorically entitled Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather to denote the beauty that inherently lies in all things, soars from hooky, driving rock (“The Shake (Awful Feeling)” and “Boys! Grab Your Guns”) to introspective acoustic ballad (“Tired and Uninspired”) to expansive searches that reveal a whole new side of My American Heart (“Dangerous” and “Fantasy”). Soliman’s lyrics are noticeably more refined, spinning with clever turns of phrase and poetically-inclined verses- yet another gleaming facet of evident growth on the record.
Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather is the result of six months of heavy writing time, although some of the album’s tracks come from nearly a year before it was recorded. Following the band’s beloved debut, The Meaning in Makeup, which the group feels was slightly rushed, for this record My American Heart had time to really craft what they consider to be an album that represents how far they have come. “We actually took our time to write this record,” says Soliman. “It was a lot of fun creating this record and expressing ourselves and actually growing as musicians together. Just figuring out what we’re capable of. It was definitely a huge step up from the last record.”
Armed with new guitarist Matthew VanGasbeck, formerly of Downtown Singapore, who joined the writing process in November, My American Heart entered the studio on February 4th. After whittling down a long list of possible producers, the group chose James Paul Wisner, the producer behind bands like Underoath, The Academy Is and Dashboard Confessional, who Soliman calls the “perfect fit for this record.” In Wisner’s St. Cloud, FL Studio, just south of Orlando, the quintet dove headfirst into an encouraging, creative environment that helped them pen the next tracks to the record. “He helped us really explore ideas and he really listened to the songs,” Barrera notes of the experience. “He was huge part of the record.”
My American Heart has certainly not eschewed their engaging pop sensibilities, but even former disbelievers won’t be able to deny the range and strength of the songwriting on Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather or the memorability of the tracks, which the band hopes will be drawn to any listener who happens to hear them. As far as huge steps up go, this is a massive one, and the significance of that is not lost on My American Heart. “I just want people to really open their minds to this and give some consideration to how much we’ve grown since the last record,” Soliman says. “We really learned that we are better than what we thought we could be.”
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:



What's your name?Where are you from?How long have you been listening to My American Heart?Do you have the cd[s]?Which one is your favorite?Favorite My American Heart Song?Favorite No Way Out song?Have you seen them live? (post pictures in the blog :)Any suggestions for the site?

Television:

Australian Adventure:
European Adventure:
Music videos:
"This Won't Stop"
"The Process"
"Poison"
"The Shake"
Live videos:
"How Dirty Boys Get Clean"
"This Won't Stop"
"Hiding Inside The Horrible Weather"
"Boys! Grab Your Guns"
"All My Friends"
Live acoustic:
"Don't Sleep"
"The Shake"
"Tired & Uninspired"
Interviews/Other videos:
Synthesis.net
CHAOSzine.net
My American Heart vs. Paramore
Dustin:
Hairy Chest Solution:
On Tour: Video 1
On Tour: Video 2
Video Updates:02/11/07
02/27/07
03/29/07
04/23/07
05/13/07
08/14/07
09/15/07
11/27/07
Upcoming Shows:Cinematic Sunrise, Daphne Loves Derby, & My American Heart
5/17/08 7:00P; Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
5/18/08 7:00P; School of Rock, South Hackensack, NJ
5/19/08 7:00P; World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA
5/20/08 7:00P; Revolution Hall, Troy, NY
5/21/08 7:00P; Blender Theatre, New York, NY
5/24/08 7:00P; The Door, Dallas, TX
5/26/08 7:00P; Launchpad, Albuquerque, NM
5/27/08 7:00P; The Clubhouse, Tempe, AZ
5/28/08 7:00P; Soma, San Diego, CA
5/29/08 7:00P; Chain Reaction, Anaheim, CA
5/31/08 7:00P; Troubador, Hollywood, CA
for more information about these shows visit www.myspace.com/myamericanheart !
MAH Links:MAH Myspace
Official Site
Matt's Solo Music
Jesse's Solo Music
Purevolume
MAHfans.com
Last.Fm
Warcon Records

Heroes:


Jacob , Dustin , Larry , Jesse .

My Blog

post your pictures! part 2

if you've met my american heart before, and you have pictures with them, post them in this blog!
Posted by MAH FANS on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:29:00 PST

post your pictures! part 1

post any live pictures that you took ofmy american heart at a show in this blog!
Posted by MAH FANS on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:31:00 PST