Professor Murder

{{Short description|American dance-punk band}}

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| name = Professor Murder

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| origin = New York City, New York, United States

| genre = {{Hlist|Indie rock|dance-punk}}

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| label = Kanine Records, RCRD LBL

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| website = [http://www.professormurder.com/ http://www.professormurder.com]

| current_members = Jesse Cohen
Andy Craven
Michael Bell-Smith
Tony Blankets

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Professor Murder is a dance-punk quartet from New York City that mixes synthesizers and percussion-based compositions in a method that has drawn comparison to post-punk and new wave bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s.* {{AllMusic | class = artist | id = p820142 | tab = biography | label = Biography of Professor Murder | first = Rob | last = Theakston | accessdate = 2012-04-20 }} They released their critically hailed[http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/37571-rides-the-subway-ep Professor Murder] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713125446/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/37571-rides-the-subway-ep |date=2007-07-13 }} reviewed on Pitchforkmedia debut EP, Professor Murder Rides the Subway, on Kanine Records in July 2006. Members of the band are Jesse Cohen (keyboards), Andy Craven (drums), Michael Bell-Smith (vocals, percussion, bass, keys), and Tony Blankets (bass, melodica). In 2009 Bell-Smith, Cohen and Blankets joined with Eric Emm of Tanlines to create a new band, Restless People.