R.I.P. David Berman (Silver Jews)

Read More Silver Jews since the band was riding high on this hit around this time, but according to bootleggers online, they noted that this show featured an improved version of Silver Jews' "Federal Dust". .…

Singer/songwriter David Berman, from Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, killed himself by hanging on August 7, according to Medical Examiner Rules via pitchfork.com.

Silver Jews formed in 1989 by Berman, along with Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich. It’s often mistaken by casual fans that Silver Jews was a “Pavement side project”, but it was really its own entity. Silver Jews broke up in 2009.

For the full death list head over to Musicians who died in 2019.

August (22)

[11 Aug 2019] Jim Cullum Jr. (American jazz musician, music preservationist, broadcaster for Riverwalk Jazz), 77, suspected heart attack

[09 Aug 2019] Claudio Taddei (Swiss singer), 52

[08 Aug 2019] Malcolm T. Elliott (Australian radio and television personality), 73

[08 Aug 2019] Erling Wicklund (Norwegian jazz trombonist), 75

[07 Aug 2019] David Berman (American singer-songwriter for Silver Jews), 52, suicide by hanging

[07 Aug 2019] Danny Doyle (Irish folk singer), 79

[07 Aug 2019] Paul Grace (Canadian musician and producer), 63

[07 Aug 2019] Francesca Sundsten (American bassist for The Beakers), 59

[07 Aug 2019] Martine Van Hoof (Belgian singer), 48

[07 Aug 2019] Nicky Wonder (American guitarist for Wondermints, Brian Wilson), 59

[05 Aug 2019] Sergey Berezin (Russian composer and singer for VIA Plamya), 81

[05 Aug 2019] Lizzie Grey (American rock musician for London, Spiders & Snakes), 60, Lewy body disease

[05 Aug 2019] Jimi Hope (Togolese musician), 62

[04 Aug 2019] Willi Tokarev (Russian-American singer-songwriter), 84

[04 Aug 2019] Bob Wilber (American jazz clarinetist and bandleader), 91

[03 Aug 2019] Joe Longthorne (English singer and impressionist for Live from...), 64, throat cancer

[03 Aug 2019] Damien Lovelock (Australian musician for The Celibate Rifles), 65, cancer

[02 Aug 2019] Alexandra Strelchenko (Russian folk singer for People's Artist of the RSFSR), 82

[01 Aug 2019] Ian Gibbons (English keyboardist for The Kinks), 67, bladder cancer

[01 Aug 2019] Agung Hercules (Indonesian actor and singer), 51

[01 Aug 2019] Hamid Ali Khan (Pakistani classical singer), 66, heart attack

[01 Aug 2019] Rodolfo Zapata (Argentine singer), 87

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