Joe Pernice
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| Joe Pernice | |
|---|---|
| Genres | Indie rock, Alternative pop, Chamber pop, Alt-country, |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Labels | Sub Pop, Ashmont, |
| Associated acts | Scud Mountain Boys, Chappaquiddick Skyline, Pernice Brothers |
Joe Pernice is an American indie rock musician and writer currently based in Toronto, Canada.[1]
Pernice has fronted several bands, including the Scud Mountain Boys, Chappaquiddick Skyline, and the Pernice Brothers.
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[edit] Music career
Pernice formed the Scud Mountain Boys in 1991, in Northampton, Massachusetts. The Scud Mountain Boys released three albums before disbanding in 1997.
After the break-up, Pernice formed the Pernice Brothers. The band released their first album Overcome by Happiness in 1998 for Sub Pop. The band released The World Won't End in 2001, under Pernice's own label, Ashmont Records and Yours, Mine and Ours in 2003. After a 2004 tour, the band released their first live album in early 2005, Nobody's Watching/Nobody's Listening, and, in June of the same year, released their fourth studio album, Discover a Lovelier You. The band released Live a Little, their fifth studio album, in October 2006. In 2007 he co-produced the Transnormal Skiperoo album for Jim White.
During the 1999-2000 hiatus of the Pernice Brothers, Pernice recorded under his own name, issuing the album Big Tobacco, and as Chappaquiddick Skyline, who issued their sole self-titled album on the Sub Pop label. Chappaquiddick Skyline was made up of Pernice Brothers band members playing songs written by Pernice, which he believed were not worthy of the Pernice Brothers banner. He has also released a single "Pega Luna Manny" along with Jose Ayerve, a member of the Pernice Brothers, a song about Boston Red Sox player Manny Ramirez which enjoyed moderate success when the Boston Red Sox won the world series that year, for the first time in 86 years.
[edit] Writing career
In 2003, as a part of Continuum Publishing's 33 1/3 series of short books about some of rock music's most important and influential albums, Pernice issued Meat Is Murder, a semi-autobiographical novel about the Smiths' 1985 album of the same name, and its impact on his teenage years.
In 2007, it was announced that Pernice had signed a deal to publish a novel with Penguin Books imprint Riverhead Books. The novel, titled It Feels So Good When I Stop, is expected to be released in 2009. He is also working on a screenplay for Meat is Murder with actor Neal Huff.[2]
