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The Shipping News

The Shipping News

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  • Formed: 1996
  • Years Active: 1990s, 2000s

Biography

Shipping News formed as a result of Jeff Mueller and Jason Noble writing and recording music for the NPR program "This American Life." The two met in 1996 and were joined a year later by Kyle Crabtree, making the band complete. The three took the band's name from a novel by E. Annie Proulx, and released their first record, Save Everything, in the summer of 1997. They followed up the album a year later, in May, with a split EP CD with Metroshifter. Three years later, in 2001, Shipping News released their second full-length album, Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company. The album was written over a two and half year period and recorded in Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Three EPs - RMSN EP 1: Carrier, RMSN EP 2: Sickening Bridge and MSN EP 3: Variegated - were released between fall 2001 and fall 2002. Several months later, the band issued a collection of those EPs with three brand new tracks under Three Four.
— Diana Potts , All Music Guide

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