‘Bleed American’: How Jimmy Eat World Cut Through To The Mainstream

‘Bleed American’: How Jimmy Eat World Cut Through To The Mainstream

Many bands suffer what is widely recognized as “difficult third album” syndrome. It’s a term that usually relates to the inability to complete a new record, but in the case of Arizona alt-rockers Jimmy Eat World, the problems occurred after they’d issued their third record, Bleed American. Not that the band had any control over events… The first fruits of the band’s new deal with DreamWorks, Bleed American was released on July 24, 2001, with the…