Pernice Brothers

{{Short description|American indie rock band}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Pernice Brothers

| image = Pernice Brothers @ Mercury Lounge.jpg

| caption = Joe Pernice performing with the Pernice Brothers, 2006

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| background = group_or_band

| alias =

| origin = Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

| genre = Indie rock

| years_active = 1998–present

| label = Sub Pop, Ashmont

| associated_acts = Scud Mountain Boys, The New Mendicants

| website =

| current_members = Joe Pernice
Thom Monahan
James Walbourne
Patrick Berkery
Peyton Pinkerton
Laura Stein
José Ayerve
Michael Deming
Bob Pernice
Ric Menck

| past_members = {{UBL| Mike Belitsky | Aaron Sperske }}

}}

Pernice Brothers are an American indie rock{{cite news |last=Hughes |first=Josiah |url= http://exclaim.ca/music/article/pernice_brothers_say_goodbye_killer_this_summer |title=The Pernice Brothers Say Goodbye, Killer This Summer |work=Exclaim! |date=2010-04-15 |accessdate=2016-09-07}} band. Formed by Joe Pernice in 1998 after the breakup of his old band, the Scud Mountain Boys, and including Joe's brother Bob Pernice, the band recorded their first album, Overcome by Happiness, for Sub Pop in 1998. After a three-year hiatus (during which Joe Pernice recorded under his own name and as Chappaquiddick Skyline), Pernice Brothers returned in 2001 with The World Won't End; after parting with Sub Pop, the album was released on Pernice's own label, Ashmont Records, co-owned with his long-time manager Joyce Linehan, which in 2003 released Yours, Mine and Ours. After a 2004 tour, the band released their first live album in early 2005, Nobody's Watching/Nobody's Listening, and, in June of the same year, released their fourth studio album, Discover a Lovelier You. The band released Live a Little, their fifth studio album, in October 2006. Goodbye, Killer was released in June 2010, after which the band did not release another album until 2019's Spread the Feeling. The band's songs are characterized by lilting melodies and intelligent lyrics.{{cite book|last=Wolff|first=Kurt|title=Country Music: The Rough Guide|year=2000|publisher=Rough Guides|location=London|isbn=9781858285344|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Jorozp1yp4C&q=lilting&pg=PA579|accessdate=22 May 2012|page=579}}{{cite news|last=Behe|first=Regis|title=Pernice Brothers 'Live a Little' in new album|url=http://triblive.com/home/1373252-85/pernice-music-says-album-brothers-kid-record-career-johnson-label|accessdate=22 May 2012|newspaper=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review|date=2 November 2006}}{{cite news|last=Brown|first=David|title=Pernice Brothers - Goodbye, Killer (One Little Indian)|url=http://www.beardedmagazine.com/albums/article/pernice-brothers-goodbye-killer-one-little-indian|accessdate=22 May 2012|newspaper=Bearded|date=8 July 2010}}