Thom Monahan

Thom Monahan is a producer/engineer and musician who is best known for his work with the bands Pernice Brothers and Vetiver. He has also produced albums by Devendra Banhart, Beachwood Sparks, and Lavender Diamond.

Monahan was the bassist and singer of Connecticut indie-rock band Monsterland from 1991 to 1994, and a member of the Pernice Brothers from 1998 to 2005. He began his recording career in 1995 with the Scud Mountain Boys debut album, Dance The Night Away. When Scuds singer Joe Pernice formed Pernice Brothers in 1998, Monahan was enlisted to play bass, provide background vocals and produce the band's debut album, Overcome By Happiness. He went on to produce additional Pernice Brothers albums The World Won't End, Yours, Mine and Ours, and Discover A Lovelier You.

Monahan moved from his native New England to California in 2005 and began working with bands in the San Francisco folk scene, recording many albums in Sacramento's The Hangar studio, including Devendra Banhart's Cripple Crow and Vetiver's To Find Me Gone, Thing of the Past and Tight Knit. At his home studio in Los Angeles, he has recorded albums by Lavender Diamond, Little Joy, Chapin Sisters and The Whispertown2000.

In 2008, Monahan and Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson co-produced Vagabonds, the first solo album by Jayhawks singer Gary Louris, which features vocals by Jenny Lewis, Susanna Hoffs and Jonathan Wilson.

Monahan married journalist and author Shirley Halperin in 2004.

Thom can be reached through his management company, Joe D'Ambrosio Management, Inc. at 914.422.0022.

Select Discography

see also albums by Pernice Brothers. (To see Thom’s entire discography, click here.)

1995

• Scud Mountain Boys - Dance the Night Away

1996

• The Lilys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better
• New Radiant Storm King - Hurricane Necklace
• Scud Mountain Boys - Massachusetts
• Silver Jews - Natural Bridge

1997

• The Lilys - Services (For The Soon To Be Departed)

1998

• Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness

1999

• Purple Ivy Shadows - White Electric

2000

• Joe Pernice - Big Tobacco
• Chappaquiddick Skyline - Chappaquiddick Skyline
• J Mascis + the Fog - More Light
• The Capitol Years - Meet Yr Acres

2001

• The Chamber Strings - Month of Sundays
• Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees
• Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End

2002

• New Radiant Storm King - Winter's Kill
• The Bigger Lovers - Honey in the Hive

2003

• Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine and Ours
• The Natural History - Beat Beat Heartbeat
• Dave Derby - Even Further Behind
• The Capitol Years - Jewelry Store

2004

• Vetiver - Vetiver
• Tussle - Kling Klang

2005

• Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
• Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovelier You
• The Capitol Years - Let Them Drink
• National Eye - Roomful of Lions

2006

• Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
• Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light
• The Rosewood Thieves - From the Decker House

2007

• Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love
• Matt Pond PA - If You Want Blood
• The Rosewood Thieves - Lonesome
• Pop Levi - Return to Form Black Magick Party

2008

• Vetiver - More Of The Past
• Gary Louris - Vagabonds
• Chapin Sisters - Lake Bottom LP
• Little Joy - Little Joy
• The Broken West - Now or Heaven
• The Whispertown2000 - Swim

2009

• Vetiver - Tight Knit
• Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light
• Geva Alon - Get Closer

2010

• The Brother Kite - Isolation

2011

• Papercuts - Fading Parade
• Ever Isles - Cocoon
• Neal Casal - Sweeten the Distance

External links

• JD Management
• Mix Magazine interview