Harvey Danger

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For those of you who haven't heard, we broke up. Yes, it is sad. However, we've been around for about 15 years, so there's plenty of music out there for you to discover if you haven't heard it all yet. Check out Amazon, eBay, or your local independent record store (our favorites are Sonic Boom and Easy Street in Seattle) to find HD CDs. You can also find a lot of our music on iTunes, and you can still download our album Little By Little... at harveydanger.com. And don't forget about Barsuk and Kill Rock Stars. Also, check out our new Flickr page for tons of photos from the past 15 years. Join our Flickr group and upload your own HD-related images. Why did we split up? You can read about it below...

Dear Friends,

After 15 years, three albums, hundreds of shows, and far more twists and turns than we ever imagined possible, we've decided to put Harvey Danger to rest. The decision is totally mutual and utterly amicable. Everyone is very proud of the work we've done together, but we've also come to feel that our collaboration has--in a very positive way--run its course. We're all eager to try our hands at other projects, musical and otherwise. Chances are we'll all work together in one form or another; if we've learned anything, it's that you never know what will happen. Of course, putting an end to something we've been working on since our early 20s can't help being accompanied by a soupcon of melancholy. Nonetheless, as the Chambers Brothers remind us, time has come today. Rock bands have life spans, and Harvey Danger's has been longer, and more eventful, than even we would have predicted.

We've been incredibly fortunate throughout. We've made great friends, shared the stage with incredible bands, worked with truly inspiring people. Beyond question, our greatest good fortune has been the relationship we've been able to maintain with our audience, particularly those who have followed the band through its various phases and line-ups. It's a corny rock band trope to extol the virtues of "the fans," but in all seriousness... The fact that our music genuinely has meant something to people, and that we have been able to get to know so many of those people (both in person and online) and learn about how they connected to our songs--that interaction became a lot more than just a way of connecting to our increasingly private public. It offered the rarest gift: an opportunity to learn what our own work actually meant. We're deeply grateful to those who know they are. Being in this band has been a long, rewarding experience, and without you, it would probably just have been long. We hope that the relatively small body of work we've left behind (a bit more than the Sex Pistols, a tad less than Prince) continues to find a place in people's music libraries. But regardless, it's a legacy that will always mean a lot to us. Thank you for listening.

Here's our new-ish video for "Moral Centralia," directed by Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton:

Moral Centralia

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The complete history of Harvey Danger is now on our blog...

The short version: We played our first show in April 1994 and put out our first album, Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?, in July '98. It was later picked up by a major label and met with some success, etc. Our second album, King James Version, was released in Sept. 2000 to little fanfare, but some critical acclaim. A three-year hiatus soon followed, during which we went our separate ways, but stayed active musically. We got back together in early-2004, just in time for our 10th anniversary, and released our third album, Little By Little..., in Sept. '05. And we all lived happily ever after. (You can also download Little By Little... for free on our website, www.harveydanger.com.)

Also: If you're wanting us to add some song called "Paranoia" to our player, you might want to listen to the songs that are already on there. You just might find what you're looking for...

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Jeff J. Lin - guitar & piano

Sean Nelson - vocals

Michael Welke - drums

Rob Knop - keyboards

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