American Heartbreak

San Francisco’s American Heartbreak was shaped in 1996 by guitarist Billy Rowe, recently orphaned from the dissolution from the commercially overlooked but critically preferred Jetboy, also featuring ex-Hanoi Stones man Sam Yaffa. As well as vocalist Lance Boone, bassist Michael Butler (previously an associate of Bay Region thrash kings Exodus!), and some lengthy since departed music artists, Rowe launched American Heartbreak’s ’70s-centered glam rock method (believe T. Rex, Starz, Cheap Technique, and undoubtedly, the brand new York Dolls) to followers with 1997’s EVERYTHING YOU Deserve EP, nonetheless it would consider an additional 3 years prior to the band’s 1st full-length, Postcards from Hell, finally surfaced. 2001 noticed the release of the split CD using the Libertines as well as the introduction of tempo guitarist Casey Crenshaw; 2003, the discharge from the part-live/part-studio/part-acoustic/all-sardonic YOU WON’T Be Obtaining Paid collection; and, pursuing increasing touring stints with Yard Infants, the Donnas, among others, American Heartbreak (right now rounded away by drummer Paul Scavuzzo) documented and released their eponymous second LP through Liquor and Texas holdem in 2006.