Shipping News
Noble and Mueller's after-Rodan thing. If Rodan was a building being demolished then Shipping News is the same building being rebuilt very slowly and very carefully out of interesting materials. Guitar patterns that stack on top of each other until the weight is enormous. More restrained than Rodan which is like saying a hurricane is more restrained than a tornado.
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Heart and soul of Louisville post-hardcore. Rodan, Shipping News, Rachel's. Played guitar like he was building cathedrals out of feedback. A central figure who connected everyone and everything in that scene. Passed away in 2012. The loss was enormous.
Rodan, June of 44, Shipping News. The busiest guitarist in Louisville and every band he touches turns to gold. Angular, dynamic, never plays the same way twice. If you drew a map of the Louisville scene his name would be on half the roads.
Shipping News drummer who kept the engine running for Noble and Mueller's post-Rodan vision. Patient, dynamic, knew when to push and when to pull back. The kind of drummer who serves the song above everything else.
