I Like American Music Pt 10 of 50 - Oregon

The Crabs - Alien Girl

Dandy Warhols - Every Day Should be a Holiday

Everclear - So Much For the Afterglow

I Like American Music Pt 9 of 50 - Bands of San Francisco

Flaming Groovies - Shake Some Action

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - White Palms

Stratford 4 - Where the Ocean Meets the Eye

I Like American Music pt 8 of 50 - Bands of LA

Warlocks - Bleed Without You Babe

Dream Syndicate - Tell Me When It's Over

Darker My Love - Helium Heels

                                      

I Like American Music Pt. 7 of 50 - Austin Tx

  Austin Texas is known for South by Southwest  Musical Festival that has grown to over 2000 bands performing at more than 100 venues. Needless to say there is a whole lot of home grown talent that flourishes in that environment. Here are three bands based in Austin.

.....And You'll Know Them by the Trail of Dead - Relative Ways

Black Angels - Manipulation

 Butthole Surfers - Pepper

I Like American Music pt. 6 of 50 - Come on Feel the Illinois - Bands from Chicago

Three 90's bands everyone has heard of from Chicago.

Urge Overkill - Sister Havana

Smashing Pumpkins - Drown

Veruca Salt - My Sharona

I Like American Music pt 5 of 50 - Feeling Minnesota

  In the mid-80's 's to the early 90's Minneapolis's Replacements created raucous, rebellious rock and roll that the intended to be broadcast in supermarkets in the 21st century Replacements music at meijer's

Here is their tribute to Alex Chilton who as a teen had a massive hit with 'The Letter" as lead singer of the Boxtops.  Later he as a member of Big Star he wrote an sang 'In the Street' which subsequently covered by Cheap Trick and went on to became the theme song for 'That70's Show'.  Incidentallly I watched that show for three years before I realized it wasn't a documentary.

The Replacements - Alex Chilton

  Another Minneapolis native is John Wozniak of Marcy Playground.

Marcy Playground - Saint Joe on the School Bus

   Across the Mississippi River from Minneapolis is its twin city St. Paul, where Bob Mould and his friends formed Husker Du.

 Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All + Hidden Bonus track

I like American Music Pt. 4 of 50 Ohio

  On September 28, 1991 Greg Dulli of the Cincinnati's Afghan Whigs received a message from the band's manager on his answering machine giving directions to a backyard barbecue. As it turns out earlier that day jazz great Miles Davis passed away.  The message ended with 'Miles is dead. Don't forget the alcohol'.  Dulli under time constraints  to write another track for their album 'Congregation'. Inspired by the message Dulli wrote the song 'Miles iz Ded' that contains the line 'Don't forget the alcohol'.  
Afghan Whigs - Miles iz Ded

Also from Cincinnat is The National.

The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio

In April my wife and I attended a concert by Cleveland's Mr. Gnome at the Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids.  Below is a video from an earlier tour when they also played the Pyramid Scheme.
Mr Gnome - Cleveland Polka