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About Me

American Blackout began life in 2003 as The Round Reality, playing music that was similar in style to Foo Fighters and Lit. Featuring former members of The Attractive Female Twins and Floating Upon Blue, the band hit the Milwaukee scene throughout the next year with such local and touring bands as A Wilehelm Scream, Over It, Somerset, Waking Bradley, The Saltshakers, Paige Marshall and more. In early 2005, the band decided to revamp their sound and made a lineup and sound change that reflected a more poppy image and made clever use of their newly purchased Alesis synthesizer. The band called it quits in the summer of 2005.

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Member Since: 2/16/2005
Band Website: purevolume.com/americanblackout
Band Members: Mark-Vocals, Bass, Synth; Mike-Guitar; Nick-Guitar, Vocals, Synth; Brian-Drums
Influences: Between the 4 of us, basically all music ever invented. but mostly Yanni's early work and the unreleased Dr Dre tracks.
Sounds Like: Barbershop quartetcore
Type of Label: None

My Blog

NEW PROJECT

Hey all. Thought you'd heard the last from us? Shame on you. Mike and Nick have returned with the last word from the world of white boy hip-hop...WHITE NOISE! That's the name o...
Posted by American Blackout on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:28:00 PST

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!

Well, the time has come. We here at American Blackout have decided to throw in the towel after years of lineup changes, name changes, sound & style changes and Mike's unsuccessful sex change...
Posted by American Blackout on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

STICKERS!

Yes, we now have stickers. We obtained them from a race of aliens who went to Vegas with us last night. Don't worry, they're cool. Also, we're working on a few new shows. They'll be ready just i...
Posted by American Blackout on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

also...

Our boy Nick, who has the ability to shoot lasers from his earlobes, posts band updates on our Purevolume site, so check it out to see if I've missed anything in this blog, or vice versa. Mark's wr...
Posted by American Blackout on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

SORRY

So yeah, we apologize to anyone who may have shown up at Points East expecting to see us play-The Touchers, whom we were supposed to open for, cancelled on us and kind of threw us for a loop. We're d...
Posted by American Blackout on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

RIVERWEST SHOW CANCELLED (and some other stuff)

Hey all! We'd just like to extend our thanks to those of you who showed up at the Cactus Club on Friday-we had a swell time. Big props must be distributed amongst The Obsoletes and Paris Texas, both...
Posted by American Blackout on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

PARIS TEXAS SHOW

Yes, that's right. We'll be rockin' the Cactus Club on April 29th with Paris-freakin'-Texas! This will be fun. Also, a few other shows are currently in the works-be sure to check back soon for more...
Posted by American Blackout on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

LAST FRIDAY'S SHOW

So...Friday we played our first show in almost four months at Village Bowl in Menomonee Falls, and, despite a few complications (including the fact that it was our first show in almost four months), e...
Posted by American Blackout on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

NEW DEMO & SHOW POSTED

So yeah, a few new things for ya. First thing obviously is the demo of our newest song, "Say That To My Face, " which was recorded entirely by Mark and will most likely be re-recorded for our debut E...
Posted by American Blackout on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

FIRST ENTRY

Ohhhhh, man. So, um, we're American Blackout and this be the first entry into our MySpace blog. I know there ain't much on our site (you can check out www.americanblackout.net for even less stuff) b...
Posted by American Blackout on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST