Jeremiah Green
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Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
band Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. They are based in Portland, Oregon. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think...
from 1993 to March 2003, and again from July 2004.
He was born in Oahu, Hawaii while his father was in the Army. He grew up in Moxee, WA a few miles outside of Yakima, WA. His family moved to the Seattle area in 1989. He has an older brother named Adam, a half sister named Theresa and a stepsister.
In the mid-1990s, Green also played with the bands Satisfact on K Records
K Records
K Records is an independent record label in Olympia, Washington, co-founded, owned, and operated by Calvin Johnson, formerly of the bands Cool Rays, Beat Happening, The Go Team, The Halo Benders and presently in the bands Dub Narcotic Sound System and The Hive Dwellers...
, Red Stars Theory
Red Stars Theory
Red Stars Theory is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington. The band was formed in early 1995 when James Bertram was looking for someone to play guitar with and found Tonie Palmasani , Jeremiah Green and Jason Talley...
on Touch and Go Records
Touch and Go Records
Touch and Go Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois, USA.After its genesis as a hand-made fanzine in 1979, it grew into one of the key record labels in the American 1980s alternative and underground rock scenes, Touch & Go carved out a reputation for releasing adventurous...
, and Peeved
Peeved
Peeved is an American band that started in 1992 in Redmond, Washington.Tonie Palmasani on vocals, Jeff McCollough on guitar and vocals, Jason Talley on bass and Jeremiah Green on drums....
on Distressed Records. Green also plays with a band by the name of Vells
Vells
Vells is an indie rock band from Seattle, Washington. The band was formed by Tristan Marcum and Ryan Kraft along with Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green after his brief departure from the group in 2001...
, as well as another band named Psychic Emperor
Psychic Emperor
Psychic Emperor is a pop-electronic collaboration between Tristan Marcum and the production of Plastiq Phantom. Their debut self-titled full-length was released December 17, 2004 on imputor? Records. In December 2006, Psychic Emperor released Communications, a 6-track EP containing live tracks...
. Both bands play at venues around Seattle and the Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest is a region in northwestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Definitions of the region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common concept of the...
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Jeremiah Green can speak a little Japanese, as he proved on track 6 of Night on the Sun
Night on the Sun
Night on the Sun is an EP by indie rock band Modest Mouse, released in 1999 as a Japan-only album, and again in 2000 as a 12" vinyl. The tracks on the Japan's Rebel Beat Factory label were taken from The Moon & Antarctica demos that were sent to Epic Records...
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In May 2008, Jeremiah released a drum breaks 7" collaboration with Plastiq Phantom
Plastiq Phantom
Plastiq Phantom is the musical alias of qp who records music ranging a wide variety of genres. Plastiq Phantom first began releasing music in 1999 with the self-released CD-R Select Imputor? EP , which became the impetus for the formation of his own record label imputor?.His debut full-length...
under the alias World Gang
World Gang
World Gang is a musical collaboration between Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse and Darrin Wiener of Plastiq Phantom. They often record lengthy ambient improvisational pieces and release them via Imputor? in super-limited hand-packaged runs on media such as 8-track, cassette, and vinyl...
on the Imputor? label.
Style and influence
Of his work on Sad Sappy SuckerSad Sappy Sucker
Sad Sappy Sucker is the name of a 2001 album release by indie rock band Modest Mouse. Originally slated to be Modest Mouse's debut album, Sad Sappy Sucker was shelved for several years until its eventual release in 2001, on the heels of the popularity of The Moon & Antarctica...
, Spencer Owen at Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
has said, "Jeremiah Green proves himself to be one of indie rock's best drummers, even this early on in the game."1
In an interview with drummer Benjamin Weikel, he states that Jeremiah's drum parts have a "great, loose feeling that's hard to emulate".http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2008/09/29/my-favorite-drummers-benjamin-from-the-helio-sequence/
He recently placed 37th in Stylus Magazine's list of "50 Greatest Rock Drummers", where Jonathan Bradley describes his drumming: http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/stylus-magazines-50-greatest-rock-drummers.htm