American Hi-Fi

American Hi-Fi is an American pop punk band that formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1998. The band consists of vocalist Stacy Jones, guitarist Jamie Arentzen, bassist Drew Parsons, and drummer Brian Nolan. Prior to the group's formation, Stacy Jones was well known for being a drummer in the successful alternative rock bands Veruca Salt and Letters to Cleo. American Hi-Fi has a close relationship with Miley Cyrus, whose band shares two members with American Hi-Fi. The group has a mixed musical style that includes influences from pop punk, alternative rock, and power pop.

The group released its eponymous debut album in 2001, and this led to their hit single "Flavor of the Weak" and the band was awarded as the "Rising Star" from the Boston Music Awards, 2001. After this, the group was dropped from their label, Island Records, and moved to Los Angeles to remake their production and sound. Working with veteran music producer Butch Walker, they released Hearts on Parade in 2005. The band then toured to a widespread fan-base in Japan and in the United States. Finally the band came back after five years of interval, releasing their third studio album Fight the Frequency in August 2010. The band released their fourth album Blood & Lemonade on September 9, 2014 worldwide via the independent label Rude Records.

American Hi-Fi (album)

American Hi-Fi is the self-titled debut studio album by American alternative rock band American Hi-Fi. The album was influenced by Lit's A Place in the Sun (1999). It features the successful single "Flavor of the Weak." The album peaked at #81 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the 200 charts for 25 weeks. The album also features the songs, "A Bigger Mood", which appeared in the American soundtrack for Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku and "I'm a Fool" which appears for Van Wilder soundtrack. The album went on to sell over 750,000 copies that year and the band toured with artists like Elvis Costello, Matchbox Twenty, Sum 41 and Bon Jovi and was followed by a worldwide tour.

Reception

NME listed the album as one of "20 Pop Punk Albums Which Will Make You Nostalgic".

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Stacy Jones. 

Personnel

High fidelity

High fidelity—or hi-fi or hifi—reproduction is a term used by home stereo listeners and home audio enthusiasts to refer to high-quality reproduction of sound to distinguish it from the poorer quality sound produced by inexpensive audio equipment, or the inferior quality of sound reproduction that can be heard in recordings made until the late 1940s. Ideally, high-fidelity equipment has minimal amounts of noise and distortion and an accurate frequency response.

History

Bell Laboratories began experimenting with wider-range of recording techniques in the early 1930s. Performances by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra were recorded in 1931 and 1932 using telephone lines between the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and the labs in New Jersey. Some multi-track recordings were made on optical sound film, which led to new advances used primarily by MGM (as early as 1937) and Twentieth Century Fox (as early as 1941). RCA Victor began recording performances by several orchestras on optical sound around 1941, resulting in higher-fidelity masters for 78-rpm discs.

Hi-Fi (Compulsion album)

Hi-Fi is a compilation album released by Compulsion in 1995.

Track listing

Personnel

Hi-Fi (Russian band)

Hi-Fi is a Russian pop dance group established in 1998 founded by composer Pavel Esenin and songwriter and producer Eric Chanturia. The concept of group was the male leader and two supportive dancers-performers till 2006, when Katya(Ekaterina) Lee joined the group.

Katya started her career in the band with solo song Vzletai. From then on female and male vocals had equal parts. When Katya Lee left, the group went back to the old concept of the male singing. In 2009 Mitya Fomin left the group and started solo career. Later in 2010 Katya Lee left the group and joined another popular girls band Fabrika. The group has had many hits on the Russian charts and has won "Best Dance Group" at the Russian television "Муз-ТВ" in 2005.

Members