Ameritown by Eastern Conference Champions

Ameritown, the first full-length album from Eastern Conference Champions, came out on July 17, 2007 on Suretone Records, the Geffen offshoot that had signed the band late in 2006. Joshua Ostrander and Greg Lyons had started the group in Philadelphia in 2005, fresh out of the rock band Laguardia, and had already put out The Southampton Collection EP on Retone before the major came calling. "Nice Clean Shirt" got onto the countdowns in 2006, well ahead of the album itself.

Critics liked the record. The band, though, never felt at home on a major label, and rather than make a second album there they took the exit fee and started releasing their music themselves under their own imprint, RockHampton, a riff on Southampton, the Pennsylvania town Lyons and Ostrander grew up in.

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