Joe Pernice

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Joe Pernice
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Background information
Genre(s)	Indie rock, Alternative pop, Chamber pop, Alt-country,
Years active	1991–2006

Joe Pernice is primarily known as an indie rock musician, but is also a writer.

Pernice has fronted several bands, including the Scud Mountain Boys, Chappaquidick Skyline, and the Pernice Brothers. In 2007 he produced the Transnormal Skiperoo album for Jim White.

1 Music Career
2 Writing Career
3 References
4 External links

[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.

During the 1999-2000 hiatus of the Pernice Brothers, Pernice recorded under his own name, issuing the album Big Tobacco, and as Chappaquidick Skyline, who issued their sole self-titled album on the Sub Pop label. Chappaquidick Skyline was made up of Pernice Brothers band members playing songs written by Pernice, which he believed weren't 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, expected to be released in 2009, and was also working on a screenplay for Meat is Murder with actor Neal Huff.^[1]