American Hi-Fi

American Hi-Fi throw a touch of angularity on the commercial power pop of 2003's The Art of Losing while also testing the waters in more funky arenas. But no matter what dressing they put on their songs, underneath it all the music's still about pop perfection. The funny, self-aware "Hell Yeah" is a prime example.

After bashing drums for Nineties alt-rockers Letters to Cleo and Veruca Salt, Stacy Jones
reinvented himself as an expert bandleader wallowing in neopunk's teenage wasteland.
Since scoring a hit with 2001's "Flavor of the Weak," the American Hi-Fi singer-guitarist has
turned out superbright rock long on snotty pop-culture references, processed sneers and
the kind of dating melodrama that post-collegians are really too old for. Hearts o... More >