 merican is an ep by the punk rock band the descendents, released february 10, 2004. it was the band's first release for fat wreck chords and served as a pre-release to their sixth studio album cool to be you, released the following month. the ep includes two songs from the album: "nothing with you" and merican", and three b-sides from the album's sessions: "here with me", "i quit", and the hidden track "alive". merican marked the first release of new studio material from the descendents since 1996's everything sucks and was their third release ever to chart, peaking at number 29 on billboard's top independent albums chart and at number 38 on top heatseekers. == background and recording == in 1987 descendents singer milo aukerman had left the band to pursue a career in biochemistry. the remaining membersâbassist karl alvarez, guitarist stephen egerton, and drummer bill stevensonâchanged the band's name to all and released eight albums on cruz records and interscope records between 1988 and 1995 with singers dave smalley, scott reynolds, and chad price. aukerman contributed occasional songwriting and backing vocals, and in 1995 decided to return to music. the members decided to operate as two bands, working with aukerman as the descendents and with price as all. both bands signed to epitaph records and the descendents released everything sucks in 1996. following the album's supporting tours aukerman had returned to his science career, though he recorded backing vocals for all's 1998 album mass nerder. all also released problematic in 2000 and live plus one in 2001, a double live album that included a descendents disc recorded in 1996. the recording 
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