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Shipping News

Group Members:

Jeff Mueller, Jason Noble, Kyle Crabtree

Similar Artists:

Philo Beddow, The Microphones, Mogwai, Shellac, Sigur Rós, Radiohead, Acetone, Papa M, Low, Red House Painters, Slint, Kemman, Aerial M, Dirty Three

Formal Connection With:

Rodan, Rachel's, June of 44, Dead Child
  • Formed: 1996
  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "Three-Four", "Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company
  • Representative Songs: "Paper Lanterns", "Sickening Bridge Versus Horrible Bed", "Nine Bodies, Nine States

Biography

Shipping News formed as a result of Jeff Mueller and Jason Noble writing and recording music for the NPR program "This American Life." The two met in 1996 and were joined a year later by Kyle Crabtree, making the band complete. The three took the band's name from a novel by E. Annie Proulx, and released their first record, Save Everything, in the summer of 1997. They followed up the album a year later, in May, with a split EP CD with Metroshifter. Three years later, in 2001, Shipping News released their second full-length album, Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company. The album was written over a two and half year period and recorded in Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Three EPs - RMSN EP 1: Carrier, RMSN EP 2: Sickening Bridge and RMSN EP 3: Variegated - were released between fall 2001 and fall 2002. Several months later, the band issued a collection of those EPs with three brand new tracks under Three Four. ~ Diana Potts, All Music Guide
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For the E. Annie Proulx novel, and the film based on it, see The Shipping News.
Shipping News
Origin USA
Genres Post-rock, math rock, indie rock
Years active 1996-present
Labels Quarterstick Records, Initial Records
Associated acts Rodan, Parlour, The For Carnation, Slint, June of 44, Dead Child
Members
Jeff Mueller
Jason Noble
Kyle Crabtree
Todd Cook

Shipping News is an American post-rock/indie rock band. The group formed in the fall of 1996 when members Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller, who were both in Rodan, collaborated to create music for the Chicago-based syndicated National Public Radio program This American Life. Kyle Crabtree was later recruited as drummer which completed the original lineup. In 2004, Todd Cook, former member of Parlour, The For Carnation, and the reunited Slint, was recruited as bass player. The group's sound is similar to those of earlier Louisville, Kentucky indie rock bands such as Slint and Rodan as well as Mueller's former band June of 44[citation needed].

The Shipping News appeared on the Louisville installment of Burn to Shine, a DVD series produced by Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty and filmmaker Christoph Green. It was filmed in November 2005 and has yet to be released. Shipping News bass player Todd Cook also appeared with his other band, Dead Child.

Shipping News takes its name from the 1993 novel The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx.

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