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American Football is an indie rock artist from Champaign-Urbana, USA formed in 1997. 18 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
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American Football
1999
Bad Moons
Single · 2026
No Feeling
Single · 2026
For Sure
Single · 2024
Rare Symmetry / Fade Into You
Single · 2021
big face (feat. Mike Kinsella of American Football)
Single · 2020
Year One Demos
EP · 2019
Desire Gets in the Way
Single · 2016
I've Been So Lost for So Long
Single · 2016
Give Me the Gun
Single · 2016
Only Talk
Single · 2011
American Football EP
EP · 1998
American Football is a rock band from Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, originally active from 1997 to 2000. The band was formed by guitarist/bassist and singer Mike Kinsella (formerly of Cap'n Jazz and Joan of Arc and currently of Owen), drummer Steve Lamos (formerly of The One Up Downstairs, one-time member of The Firebird Band and Edward Burch & the Staunch Characters, and currently of The Geese and DMS), and guitar player Steve Holmes (also of The Geese). The band reunited in 2014 and is due to play a festival set and three headline shows in the fall. History: Kinsella and Lamos began playing together with David Johnson and Allen Johnson in 1997 under the name 'The One Up Downstairs', in which Kinsella was exclusively a vocalist. Three songs were recorded under this name, with the intention of releasing them as a 7" record on Polyvinyl Records; however, the band splintered before the record could be pressed, so the songs were shelved. The three tracks recorded by The One Up Downstairs would finally be released in 2006 as a digital download EP, and in 2009, as a 7" record by Polyvinyl. David Johnson and Allen Johnson went on to form the band Very Secretary (and later Favorite Saint…
