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Joe Pernice began his recording career in the mid-90 s with the Scud Mountain Boys, in Northampton, Massachusetts. They released two records before signing to Seattle s Sub Pop in 1996 and releasing Massachusetts, along with The Early Year, a compilation of the two pre-Sub Pop recordings. In 1997, he disbanded the Scuds to form Pernice Brothers, whose debut Overcome By Happiness was released by Sub Pop, as was Chappaquiddick Skyline, more of a Joe Pernice side project in 2000. Big Tobacco, a Joe Pernice solo record was released in Europe in 2000 (and later in the US). Later that year, Joe left Sub Pop and he and his longtime manager Joyce Linehan established Ashmont Records, based in Boston, where they have released several Pernice Brothers records: The World Won t End (2001) , Yours, Mine and Ours (2003), Nobody s Watching/Nobody s Listening live album and DVD (2004) Discover a Lovelier You (2005) and Live a Little (2006). Joe has also published a volume of poetry called Two Blind Pigeons and a novella for Continuum Books 33 1/3 series, Meat is Murder. His music has appeared in the movies Fever Pitch and Slaughterhouse Rules, the television shows Six Feet Under and The Gilmore Girls, and in television ads for Sherwin-Williams, Sears and Southern Comfort. A Massachusetts native, he now lives in Toronto. A new album of Pernice originals is planned for early 2010.
Thanks to Fultext & Vic!
Singer-Songwriter,Cover-Song PERNICE BROTHERS!................................................................................................................................................
Joe Pernice - 2009 Tour Dates
Wednesday, August 5, 7 and 9:30 p.m. (two shows)
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MAFriday, August 7, 9 p.m.
Bowery Ballroom, New York, NYSaturday August 8, 7:30 p.m.
Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PASunday, August 9, time TBA
Iota Club, Arlington, VATuesday, August 25, 9 p.m.
Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WAWednesday, August 26, 9 p.m.
Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR
Tickets: www.dougfirlounge.comFriday, August 28, 7:30 p.m.
Café du Nord, San Francisco, CASaturday, August 29, 8 p.m.
McCabe's, Los Angeles, CAFriday, September 11, 7 p.m.
Schuba's, Chicago, ILSaturday, September 12, 9 p.m.
400 Bar, Minneapolis, MN................................................................................................................................................
Living With Music: Joe Pernice
Obviously, I must love music.
The last time I counted, I had written something like 26 popular songs into my first novel, “It Feels So Good When I Stop.” With the exception of a couple, I truly love them all. So much so that a few guys in my band and I recorded an album of them. Below are the songs from “It Feels So Good When I Stop (Novel Soundtrack).”
1) Found a Little Baby. This is hands down one of my favorite songs of the 1990s. Liam Hayes (aka Plush) released it as a single on “Drag City.” Find it on vinyl if you can. In my novel, the narrator — by singing the hook ad nauseam — ruins the song for his girlfriend. I suggest you refrain from doing in kind because if this tune ends up on the “unlistenable” heap, you will miss it.
2) I Go to Pieces. I think Peter and Gordon had the bigger hit with this ridiculously sad and hooky Del Shannon number. In my book, the narrator, during a particularly low period in his life, discovers the comfort in the genius and gnawing sadness of Del Shannon’s voice. The narrator apologizes to the world for once having lumped Del Shannon together with Pat Boone.
3) I’m Your Puppet. A timeless classic hit. If you don’t respond to the recording by James and Bobby Purify, you clearly have no soul of any type. For my narrator, the song is forever attached to an exciting, sexually charged moment in his new relationship with his future wife. No good can come of such romantic leanings.
4) Soul and Fire. I am simply grateful to Lou Barlow of Sebadoh for writing this historically significant tune. I’m also grateful to him for letting me make him a fictional character in my book.
5) Chevy Van. I’ve loved this creepy little Sammy Johns number since I was a kid. As I got older, I admired the machinations of a music industry that could make an AM radio smash hit out of a linear, country-tinged soft-rock tune about two anonymous free spirits rubbing uglies in a van. Bravo.
6) Tell Me When It’s Over. If Steve Wynn is not the hardest-working man in rock ’n’ roll, then he’s worked for the hardest-working man in rock ’n’ roll. When I was a teenager, this paisley underground anthem to the malingering powers of whatever ails you banged around my head as often as her name. I seriously considered naming my novel after this tune, but I didn’t feel like getting sued. Too late did I learn you can’t copyright a title.
7) Chim Cheree. Anyone who thinks Dick Van Dyke is anything short of a genius should be banned from using media for entertainment purposes. Despite possessing the worst Brit accent of all time, Van Dyke is able to disguise the deep bummer in this song just enough to keep the kids smiling and their parents casually contemplating their own deaths.
8) Black Smoke (No Pope). The story behind this tune is something akin to an Escher print. The Young Accuser is a band I made up for my book. That fictitious band gets a scathing rejection letter from the very real Sub Pop Records. The real Jon Poneman of the real Sub Pop wrote a real blurb for my real book, then suggested that the fictitious Young Accuser record a real single for his real label. (Exhale.) So, a few real Canadians and I recorded a 1990s lo-fi period piece. I, the real Joe Pernice, went on to record a Pernicean, mellow cover of, er, my own tune. Really.
9) That’s How I Got to Memphis. This brilliant Tom T. Hall song explains just how things came to end up the way they did (badly) without doing much explaining at all. The song does what all great ones do: it becomes the listener’s story. Speaking of stories, the narrator in my book is slightly miffed when his rough-around-the-edges brother-in-law turns off the radio because he’d rather chat. I hate when people do that.
10) Hello It’s Me. You don’t need me to tell you how monumentally talented Todd Rundgren is as a composer, recording artist and producer. I could probably survive a year or two listening only to his “Something/Anything” and XTC’s “Skylarking.” (And “London Calling,” but Todd didn’t do that one.) In my book, Jennifer dumps the narrator hard. She gives him a cassette with a single Todd Rundgren tune on it. The song apparently says it all for her. After that, for the narrator, anything with Rundgren’s name on it is poison.
Full read...................................................................................................................................................All about| Pernice Brothers
Pernice Brothers is an indie pop group. The band was formed in 1997 by Joe Pernice.
Massachusetts-born Pernice had begun his recording career in the country-rock Scud Mountain Boys. He left the band, and most of its country music trappings, to pursue pure pop.
The Pernice Brothers also included Joe’s brother Bob Pernice on guitar (hence the name), Peyton Pinkerton (guitar), Mike Deming (piano), bassist Thom Monahan, and Aaron Sperske on drums.
The band’s first release was 1998’s Overcome By Happiness. They have since recorded four more studio albums: The World Won’t End (2001); Yours, Mine & Ours (2003), Discover A Lovelier You (2005), and Live A Little (2006). They released a live album, Nobody’s Watching/Nobody’s Listening in 2004. Pernice has also made two solo outings, one under the name Chappaquiddick Skyline.
Their music is distinguished by Pernice’s silky, breathy vocals, reminiscent of Colin Blunstone or Nick Drake. He cites many musical influences: Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, as well as Jimmy Webb, The Carpenters, and The Bee Gees. The deceptive simplicity, seductive melodies and soaring choruses of his songs also attract comparisons with the Beach Boys, Big Star, The Hollies and The Zombies. Yet the band can as easily sound like The Cure or New Order."A great album. Sunny, freewheeling and weird."Discover A Lovelier You (2005)
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