Break-ups: Murder City Devils (1997-2001)

Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by Aubin on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 11:51 AM (EDT)

The Murder City Devils are going to do a final tour then break up! Apparently their keyboardist left and their bassist is going to do Pretty Girls Make Graves full time. This can go under the heading of shitty news. Supposedly the rest of the band is going to reorganize under a name change...Also I'm pretty sure they all have various band tatoos. That's no good at all. Fuck all that! MCD was a great band with a very original sound. Why do these things happen? The official word from the band can be read below.

News Update Septmeber 17, 2001

hey everybody,

I am very sorry to say that a lot of the rumors going around right now are true. Leslie has left the band, moving out of seattle this past weekend. This has left the band in a sort of limbo, and the reason that we have not said anything, is that we were not really sure what was going to happen. We wanted to make sure we knew what was going on before we said anything. This October tour will be completed with our friend, old merch guy, and drummer of Pretty Girls Make Graves, Nick DeWitt will be filling in for Leslie. We have decided that then it would be best if The Murder City Devils, as they currently exsist no longer continued. Derek is going to concentrate on Pretty Girls Make Graves. The rest of us, will continue together, the details however have not been figured out. We hope you understand that we were not trying to fuck with anybody or keep anybody in the dark, but this has been all we have known for the last 5 years and trying to figure out what was going on takes a while.

gabe

(derek, coady, spencer, nate, dann)

murder city devils

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Someone (September 19, 2001)

i saw the murder city devils once. i threw up. first time in 10 years. payback's a bitch.

Someone (September 19, 2001)

pretty girls make graves is a fucking badass new band, the lead singer is the girl that does background vocals on the track "Boom Swagger Boom" by the Devils, they kickass live. Anyways i'm sure Spencer and the rest of the crew will put something together. Anyways, Go suport the MCD on their last and final tour you won't be sorry. True rock and Roll, Iggy Pop style.

Someone (September 27, 2001)

they stole their whole sound from mudhoney

Someone (September 20, 2001)

So, why is it bad that all the members have various band tattoos? Idiot. Just because they're breaking up doesn't mean they regret the last five years. It'll be a reminder of the awesome rock they put out.

Cos (September 21, 2001)

DRATS! Now there won't be any Misfits cover bands to play emo shows. CALLING AFI! CALLING AFI! Career opportunity awaits!

rightclique (September 27, 2001)

first of all, i'm not sure how original the MCD were. few people even remember mudhoney any more, but MCD was about 50% MUDHONEY and 50% something else, maybe original. they both came from SUBPOP... i saw mudhoney play a couple months ago in my home town and it was pretty fuckin badass. i hung out with the singer for like 20 minutes or something.. but anyway, MCD is okay. some of their stuff is super annoying, but that was the same with mudhoney. but all in all, mudhoney is a way sweeter band.