Formed in California's East Bay in the dying embers of 1995, Tiger Army played their first show in March 1996 at the legendary 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley with AFI. More shows throughout Northern California that year saw them on bills with various touring and local punk/rock'n'roll bands, even playing a gig with English psychobilly legends The Meteors. With the belief and help of Rancid's Tim Armstrong who'd signed the band to his label Hellcat Records, the band's self-titled debut CD/LP Tiger Army finally hit the stores in 1999.  Since then the band has toured relentlessly and built a following for their hybrid of modern psychobilly, hardcore punk and 1950's rockabilly/rock'n'roll that the band simply dubbed "American Psychobilly."