{"id":2447279,"date":"2019-08-07T17:14:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T23:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=868824"},"modified":"2019-08-07T17:14:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T23:14:33","slug":"silver-jews-david-berman-dead-at-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/silver-jews-david-berman-dead-at-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Jews\u2019 David Berman Dead at 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-berman-silver-jews.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>David Berman, the singer-songwriter best known for leading the long-running band Silver Jews, died Wednesday at the age of 52. Drag City, the Chicago record label that has released all of the group\u2019s albums dating back to 1994\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Starlite Walker<\/em>, confirmed the musician\u2019s death. The label did not immediately reveal the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more sorry to tell you this. David Berman passed away earlier today,\u201d the label <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dragcityrecords\/status\/1159237481939841024?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">wrote in a statement<\/a>. \u201cA great friend and one of the most inspiring individuals we\u2019ve ever known is gone. Rest easy, David.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July, Berman, called a \u201cliterary indie rock great\u201d by <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, released his first album in 11 years with the new project Purple Mountains. \u201cWhat follows is a uniquely grizzly breakup album, depressed but resiliently clinging to a desire to see what possibilities might lurk past the next heartache,\u201d wrote <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Jon Dolan. \u201cIt\u2019s emotionally bare-knuckled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A cult hero due to his poetic lyrics and droll delivery, Berman was an early collaborator of future Pavement leader Stephen Malkmus and a fixture on Drag City as well as a published author.<\/p>\n<p>Berman formed Silver Jews in 1989 with Malkmus and another future Pavement member, Bob Nastanovich. From 1994 through 2008, the band released six acclaimed full-lengths; of 1998\u2019s <em>American Water<\/em>, <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Rob Sheffield wrote, \u201cIt\u2019s torture to pick just one highlight from such a flawless album.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is developing<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/silver-jews-david-berman-dead-obituary-868824\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Berman, the singer-songwriter best known for leading the long-running band Silver Jews, died Wednesday at the age of 52. Drag City, the Chicago record label that has released all of the group\u2019s albums dating back to 1994\u2019s&nbsp;Starlite Walker, confirmed the musician\u2019s death. The label did not immediately reveal the cause of death. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 22:44:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}