American Culture

Honoring the true outsider ethos of D.I.Y. music, Denver's American Culture plays an uncompromising amalgam of scuffed-up indie rock, classic college rock, and lo-fi punk, with bits of dub and Afrobeat thrown in for good measure. Led by former Bad Weather California frontman Chris Adolf, the band debuted in 2015 with the scrappy Pure American Gum, then returned after a six-year gap with the 2021 LP For My Animals.