Track Listing

1. Box
2. Noah
3. Some Sorta Light
4. Stutter
5. Single Sedative
6. Yuppy Hipster ****
7. To the Wind
8. Pitch a Fit
9. Gucci No. 3
10. Nice Clean Shirt
11. Rabbit Hole
12. Hollywood....

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #197202 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.com
In an age of pre-fab bands, it's pretty cool to see guys on stage looking like they know they're damn lucky to be playing music for a living. In 2004, longtime friends Greg Lyons and Josh Ostrander began writing songs that would become their EP, The Southampton Collection. Joined by Vern Zaborowski, their unabashed shows in NYC and Philly did not go unnoticed. Blender wrote it was "refreshing to see a band who actually looked like they enjoyed playing their songs." Suretone's Jordan Schur heard the EP and signed the band on the spot. Brit-pop super-producer Owen Morris (Oasis, The Verve) crossed the pond to work with the trio. The resulting labor of love is Ameritown. Simple piano and marching-band drum rudiments exist next to distorted barre chords. Ostrander's distinct voice and original melodies create hooks that soar to anthem-like proportions on "Single Sedative" and the crowd-rousing "Yuppy Hipster." Spin.com called Zaborowski's bass dynamism and Lyons' driving beats "spot on." Songs range from the lilting "The Box" and "Some Sorta Light," to the passionate musical assaults of "Noah" and "Nice Clean Shirt." The secret weapon seems to be Ostrander's lyrics, which seamlessly flip from compassion to completely heartless.

Customer Reviews

Finally
Eastern Conference Champions have successfully blown me away with a phenomenal first album. Having been lucky enough to see these guys many times, as well as owning two of their EPs, the boys from Southampton PA (currently calling LA home) surprised me. The staples were all there, including a totally reworked recording of "Nice Clean Shirt" who knew you could improve that song? As well as some amazing new songs my favorite of which is "Rabbit Hole."
Josh, Greg, and Vern offer a breath of fresh air, and truly allow themselves to come through on the album. The CD has something for everyone. pick up a copy, and look for ECC to come to your town!

Great American Rock
Eastern Conference Champions are your new favorite band--you just don't know it yet.

Ameritown, the debut LP from Southampton, PA (suburb of Philadelphia) rockers, Eastern Conference Champions is full of niccotine-like, addicting tunes. Basically, these songs rock. Consider it the years most beautiful/gritty American rock album.

With it's epic choruses and breakdowns coupled with stripped down, sometimes delicate verses, these songs will get you singing aloud in the car, no doubt.

Comparisons to coldplay and smashing pumpkins seem to linger around the band, however producer Owen Morris said it best "ECC sounds like no one f*cking else." Outside of Joshua Ostrander's nasal vocals, and a piano, you dont hear any other similarities between the groups. What you do hear is original American rock.

No two songs sound the same on the record and that is clearly evident from opener "the Box" to closer "Hollywood." All of the songs are great, but for me the best are, "Stutter," "To The Wind," "Rabbit Hole" and "the Box."

The only problems I have with the album is that some of the songs fro their EP, did not make the cut. The EP's version of "Nice Clean Shirt" was better and why the band chose the song "Hollywood" over "Springteen" is anybodies guess. Otherwise an amazing album and one that more people than not will be talking about soon enough...

Take a look in the mirror
Disillusioned but driven to make "It" better: ECC lays down a thought
provoking, memory jogging assortment of dazzling styles, textures and
functions. These guys have obviously grown up by negotiating the tough
choices; in life, love and routes taken. Each track plays out like a
road weary yet sturdy study in compassion and the elements that define
our human need to be embraced. Angst ridden and warbling, this is
Americana at its finest; A Sign of the Times that brings us back home!

Exceptionally produced and masterfully communicated by this trio, the
true depth of the message moves in and out between the fabric of the
musicianship and lyrics; each one lending support for the other while
painting a picture that resides between the two.

Ameritown speaks to those that have lived and those that have yet to
experience the highs and lows of our society. It is at once a
nostalgic trip and instructional curriculum designed for a 21st
century that insists we listen closely and challenges us to
reflect on the lessons contained within. It's not hard to imagine a
representative cross-section of our culture tuning in to ECC in an
effort to clarify their own individual paths.

Moody, polished, haunting, festive, dusty, melodic ...Ameritown is a
recollection of where we've been and what we've done.

One could argue that what lies ahead is less important, but what is
made clear throughout this brilliant set is that ECC is ALL of
us...everyday!

Embrace it, live it, it's yours...Ameritown.