Shipping News is an American

United States

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 post-rock

Post-rock

Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...

/post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band. The group formed in the fall of 1996 when members Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller, who were both in Rodan

Rodan (band)

Rodan was an American math/post-hardcore band in the early to mid 1990s. The best known lineup of the band consisted of Jeff Mueller , Jason Noble , Tara Jane O'Neil , and Kevin Coultas .-History:...

, collaborated to create music for the Chicago

Chicago

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-based syndicated National Public Radio program This American Life

This American Life

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. Kyle Crabtree was later recruited as drummer which completed the original lineup. In 2004, Todd Cook, former member of Parlour, The For Carnation

The For Carnation

The For Carnation are a post-rock band from Louisville, Kentucky who formed in 1994. The band was formed by Brian McMahan, who is the only constant group member. McMahan's previous band Slint hinted at the distinctive sound and sombre aesthetic he would create in The For Carnation...

, and the reunited Slint

Slint

Slint was an American rock band consisting of Brian McMahan , David Pajo , Britt Walford , Todd Brashear and Ethan Buckler...

, was recruited as bass player.

The Shipping News appeared on the Louisville installment of Burn to Shine

Burn to Shine

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, a DVD series produced by Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty

Brendan Canty

Brendan Canty is an American musician, composer, producer and film maker, best known as the drummer for the band Fugazi....

 and filmmaker Christoph Green. It was filmed in November 2005 and was premiered in May 2010 and was due to be released on DVD and download before Christmas 2010. Shipping News bass player Todd Cook also appeared with his other band, Dead Child

Dead Child

Dead Child is a heavy metal band from Louisville, Kentucky. The band played its first show at Lisa's Oak Street Lounge on August 19, 2006 with Pusher, Lords, and Blade of the Ripper....

.

Shipping News takes its name from the 1993 novel The Shipping News

The Shipping News

The Shipping News is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel by American writer E. Annie Proulx which was published in 1993. It was adapted into a film of the same name, released in 2001.-Plot summary:...

, by E. Annie Proulx

E. Annie Proulx

Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994, and was made into a film in 2001...

.

Discography

• 1996: Save Everything - (Quarterstick Records
  Quarterstick Records
  -Artists:*Bad Livers*Calexico*DK3*Dead Child*June of 44*Kepone*The Mekons*Mi Ami*Peter Móren *Mule*Naked Raygun*Tara Jane O'Neil*Pegboy*Phono-Comb*Rachel's*Rodan*Henry Rollins*Shipping News*Sholi*The Sonora Pine*Therapy?...
  
  )
• 1998: Shipping News and The Metroschifter split release - (Initial Records
  Initial Records
  Initial Records was an iconic Louisville based independent record label during the Nineties and early part of the new millennium. Initial released records from hardcore punk to indie rock over its 12-year span...
  
  )
• 2001: Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company - (Quarterstick Records)
• RMSN EP Series
• 2003: Three-Four - (Quarterstick Records)
• 2005: Flies the Fields - (Quarterstick Records)
• 2010: One Less Heartless To Fear - (Ruminance, Noise Pollution Records)

External links

• Shipping News page at Southern Records
  Southern Records
  Southern Records is an independent record label closely associated with Crass Records, Corpus Christi Records and Dischord Records. It is based in London and previously had offices in Chicago , Le Havre and Berlin .Southern was originally a recording studio owned and operated by John Loder...
  
   site
• Obnoxious Listeners: Shipping News
• Footage of a Shipping News performance and interview at the 25th anniversary of Touch and Go Records
  Touch and Go Records
  Touch and Go Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois, USA.After its genesis as a hand-made fanzine in 1979, it grew into one of the key record labels in the American 1980s alternative and underground rock scenes, Touch & Go carved out a reputation for releasing adventurous...
  
  
• Shipping News at Myspace
  Myspace
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• Shipping News at AllMusic