Key and Harris (both vocalists and multi-instrumentalists, and half of the Babylon Dance Band) initially recruited Wolf Knapp and Michael Weinert to complete the Antietam lineup, the name taken from the site of a battle in the American Civil War.
[1] By the release of second album Music from Elba, former Babylon Dance Band drummer Sean Mulhall had taken over on drums for that recording only.
[1] They followed this with the album Burgoo in 1990, produced by Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo, and with Charles Schultz on drums.
[2][3] In 1996, Key performed with Yo La Tengo as The Factory's house band in the film I Shot Andy Warhol.
[4] After a spell of woodshedding, in 2004, Antietam signed to Carrot Top Records in Chicago and released the albums Victory Park (2004), Opus Mixtum (2008), and Tenth Life (2011).