Sun Kil Moon

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Sun Kil Moon
Origin	San Francisco, California, USA
Genre(s)	Folk rock, slowcore
Years active	2002-present
Label(s)	Caldo Verde Records
Associated acts	Red House Painters
Website	www.sunkilmoon.com
Members
Mark Kozelek Tim Mooney Anthony Koutsos Geoff Stanfield

Sun Kil Moon is the project of singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek, best known for his previous band, Red House Painters. Sun Kil Moon sees Kozelek undertake the writing, composing, singing and guitar playing accompanied by Tim Mooney and Anthony Koutsos on drums, and Geoff Stanfield on bass.

The band is named after Korean bantamweight boxer Sung-Kil Moon. ^[1] ^[2].

Sun Kil Moon's debut album, Ghosts of the Great Highway, first released in 2003 by Jetset Records, contains several songs concerned with true-life stories of deceased boxers, such as featherweight champion Salvador Sanchez, flyweight Pancho Villa, and also Duk Koo Kim.

Ghosts of the Great Highway was re-issued as a double CD on February 6, 2007 on Kozelek's own label, Caldo Verde. The second disc features six bonus tracks, including the cover of "Somewhere" written by Leonard Bernstein.

The band's follow-up Tiny Cities was released on November 1, 2005 on Kozelek's Caldo Verde Records. The album covers eleven songs by the indie/alternative group Modest Mouse.

Sun Kil Moon's third studio album is called April and was released April 1, 2008. ^[3] It features guest vocals from Will Oldham and Ben Gibbard.