Shipping News was an American

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band. The group formed in the fall of 1996 when members Jason Noble and

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, who were both in

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, collaborated to create music for the

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-based syndicated

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program ''

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

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, and the reunited

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, was recruited as bass player. Shipping News appeared on the Louisville installment of '' Burn to Shine'', a DVD series produced by

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drummer

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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 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. During the 2005 Slint reunion tour, Pajo, Cook and McMahan deci ...

. Shipping News takes its name from the 1993 novel ''

The Shipping News ''The Shipping News'' is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other awards. It was adapted as a film of the ...

'', by

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. In 2009, Noble was diagnosed with

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. He died in 2012 at the age of 40.

Discography

*1997: ''Save Everything'' - (

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) *1998: ''Shipping News and The Metroschifter split release'' - (

Initial Records Initial Records was an independent record label in Louisville, Kentucky, that was founded in 1992. The label released music by Falling Forward, Boysetsfire and Ink & Dagger, and created the annual weekend long music festival, Krazy Fest. Hist ...

) *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)

References

External links

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site
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