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With origins in seminal SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA punk acts the Sleepers and Bad Trend, Toiling Midgets was among the 1st West Coast punk bands to test out dub and post-punk elements, sounding similar to their L.A. contemporaries the Weapon Golf club. In 1980, Toiling Midgets was founded by guitarist …

Although chosen because of its deliberately nondescript characteristics, in retrospect the name American Music Membership was an ideal moniker for the lauded San Francisco-based music group led by singer/songwriter Tag Eitzel: during the period of nine acclaimed albums, the group tied jointly the disparate strands from the American music fabric …