hiatus. They released their fourth album, Do You Love the Sun, in 2014. Pernice has collaborated with Norman Blake and Mike Belitsky in The New Mendicants. A New Mendicants album Into The Lime was released in 2014. He also formed Roger Lion along with musician and hip hop producer Budo. The duo released a studio album, Roger Lion, on Team Love Records in 2015. On September 9, 2019, Pernice released Spread the Feeling, the sixth studio LP by the Pernice Brothers. Writing career In 2001, Pernice published a collection of poetry called Two Blind Pigeons. The majority of that book consists of Pernice's MFA thesis. In 2003, as a part of Continuum Publishing's 33 1/3 series of short books about some of rock music's most important and influential albums, Pernice issued Meat Is Murder, a novella about suicide and an almost unhealthy obsession with the Smiths' 1985 album of the same name. In 2009, Pernice published his first novel, It Feels So Good When I Stop, via the Penguin Books imprint Riverhead Books. The book features a narrator "hiding from the wreckage of a one-day marriage by holing up in Cape Cod with his soon to be ex-brother in law." Pernice is also intermittently working on a screenplay for Meat is Murder with actor Neal Huff. Along with the release of his latest CD, Goodbye, Killer, Ashmont Records published a limited-edition collection of Twitter tweets between Pernice and his label co-owner Joyce Linehan. These tweets currently are serving as the basis for an ongoing series of short, humorous videos featuring puppets of Pernice, Linehan and some other characters. The videos can be seen on pernicebrothers.com. In 2017, Pernice was a staff writer on the Canadian television show The Detail. Pernice co-wrote episode 6 with Canadian writer Adam Pettle. References External links Official website 1967 births Living people American rock musicians University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers alumni American alternative country singers Singers from Massachusetts Musicians from Toronto