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american catastrophe

picture us on a farm where the crows know our name

About Me

"Who knew there was such dark and interesting music coming straight outta Kansas City?" -Paste Magazine.Stemming from former bands such as The Black Water, Sky Burial, Sister Mary Rotten Crotch among others, American Catastrophe explores the americana, the rural grit, the murderer and the romantic. A world of the seedy where one can die choking on the dove of peace or be beaten to death by a bouquet of roses. American Catastrophe has most commonly been described as "Dark Americana" and have shared the stage with the likes of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots, The Reverend Glasseye, Humanwine, The Veils, The Ponys and many more. Their first album "Excerpts from the Broken Bone Choir" has received excellent reviews from Pitchfork, Paste, popmatters, AMG, among others; debuted on the CMJ charts at 166 and has received international radio play. For more information on American Catastrophe please view these links- Electronic Press Kit- www.sonicbids.com/amcat Label- www.oxbloodrecords.com www.myspace.com/oxbloodrecordings Booking- www.myspace.com/allotropebooking Myspace Layouts

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Member Since: 6/7/2005
Band Website: sonicbids.com/amcat
Band Members: Shaun Hamontree - Guitars, Vocals Terrence Moore - Guitars, Harmonica, Banjo, Backing Vocals Amy Farrand- Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals Eric Bessenbacher - Percussion
Influences: swans, nick cave and the bad seeds, 16 horsepower, woven hand, jay munly, silver mt. zion, angelo badalamenti, mingus, godspeed you black emperor, talk talk, o'rang, tom waits, marc ribot, old time folk, handsome family, bauhaus, southern death cult, david lynch and about 300 others
Sounds Like: american catastrophe
Record Label: Oxblood Records- www.oxbloodrecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

american catastrophe tour blog

for anyone interested, we will be posting updates from the road athttp://amcat.blogspot.com
Posted by american catastrophe on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:12:00 PST

American Catastrophe spring tour dates 2008

We're hitting the road next week for some out of town shows around the Midwest. More April tour dates out West coming soon.
Posted by american catastrophe on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:25:00 PST

American Catastrophe News

this is a bit late on our site and for that we apologize. we are very happy and proud to now be signed to Oxblood Records, created and run by Robert Moore(Sonic Spectrum) and Megan Hamilton(frogpond)....
Posted by american catastrophe on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:53:00 PST

R.I.P R.L Burnside

farewell to a legend. at least we have his music
Posted by american catastrophe on Fri, 02 Sep 2005 09:27:00 PST

it's done!!!!!

we've finished the album. after a couple of years of recording, trashing, recording, trashing, we've finally something we're happy about. all that's left is mastering and packaging. i've put some ex...
Posted by american catastrophe on Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:14:00 PST