The Mercury Lounge (Venue Partner)
217 E Houston St
212.260.4700
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- When
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Friday Jan 15, 2010 (7:15pm)
- Where
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Directions: F, JMZ at Essex and Delancey or F, V at 2nd Ave
- Price
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$15
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.
About It Feels So Good When I Stop
In the vein of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, Pernice’s debut is a coming-of-age tale for the modern-day slacker, and an unlikely love story with a masculine perspective—but with a mordant humor and unexpected warmth that will resonate with male and female readers alike. Set to a carefully curated soundtrack of Nick Drake, The Pogues, and Peter Frampton, It Feels So Good When I Stop is the story of a deeply flawed but irrepressibly likeable hero stumbling towards adulthood, learning about heartbreak and redemption, and struggling to love and commit on his own terms.
