Shipping News

American post-rock and post-hardcore band

For the E. Annie Proulx novel, see The Shipping News. For the film based on it, see The Shipping News (film). For the BBC broadcast, see Shipping Forecast.

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Shipping News
Origin	Louisville, Kentucky
Genres	Post-rock math rock post-hardcore
Years active	1996–2012
Labels	Quarterstick Initial
Spinoff of	Rodan June of 44
Members	Jason Noble Jeff Mueller Kyle Crabtree Todd Cook

Shipping News was an American post-rock/post-hardcore band. The group formed in the fall of 1996 when members Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller, who were both in Rodan, collaborated to create music for the Chicago-based syndicated National Public Radio program This American Life . Kyle Crabtree was later recruited as drummer which completed the original lineup. In 2004, Todd Cook, former member of Parlour, The For Carnation, and the reunited Slint, was recruited as bass player.

Shipping News appeared on the Louisville installment of Burn to Shine , a DVD series produced by Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty 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.

Shipping News takes its name from the 1993 novel The Shipping News , by E. Annie Proulx.

In 2009, Noble was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma. He died in 2012 at the age of 40.