iSound

American Hi-Fi has been called a pop band, a pop-punk band, a pop metal band, but it's all just Rock n' Roll to me. After making three records, I have learned to embrace our continual identity crisis. I got into music at an early age. My parents always had music on around the house and in the car. My dad would sing along (in his own special key) to great records -- The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, the Beatles, ELO, the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones -- you get the picture. I would set-up pots and pans and sit in front of the stereo with giant headphones on, banging away with wooden spoons to songs like "Tusk" and "Evil Woman." My parents bought me a drum set some years later, and my future was sealed. I played in every garage band I could find throughout junior high and high school. Every teen dance, every backyard party, every basement, every battle of the bands I used my parent's car to haul around my giant drum set (Neil Peart from Rush had set the bar pretty high)...