Nick Murray is an American drummer. He is best known as a member of the garage rock band White Fence, and as a former member of Thee Oh Sees, with whom he recorded two studio albums. Murray has also been a frequent collaborator of Tim Presley (White Fence), as well as Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon, contributing to her solo album, Mug Museum (2013) and with 'DRINKS' (2015), a collaborative project with White Fence's Tim Presley and Cate Le Bon. ^[1] Murray has also toured with Mikal Cronin and Gold Star.

In late 2009, Murray joined The Young Veins ^[2] and served as the drummer until the indefinite hiatus announced by bandmate Jon Walker on Twitter, December 10, 2010. ^[3]

Biography

Childhood and early life

Growing up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Murray initially began learning drums at the age of eleven, so he could form a band with his brother: "For the first two years of playing all I had was a snare drum with a mute on it. I learned a lot just on one drum. Until I had a full kit, I set up boxes in place of the missing drums and referenced setups I saw on MTV." ^[4]

Murray's early influences are Jimi Hendrix Experience's Mitch Mitchell, Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley, and The Smashing Pumpkins' Jimmy Chamberlin. ^[4]

Discography

John Dwyer / Nick Murray / Brad Caulkins / Tomas Dolas / Greg Coates

• Witch Egg (2021)

PAINT

• Spiritual Vegas (2020)
• PAINT (2018)

Damaged Bug

• Bug On Yonkers (2020)

Shannon Lay

• August (2019)

Thee Oh Sees

• Mutilator Defeated At Last (2015)
• " Fortress" (2016)

OCS

• Memory of a Cut Off Head (2017)

Curtis Harding

• Face Your Fear (2017)

Drinks

• Hermits on Holiday (2015)

White Fence

• For the Recently Found Innocent (2014)
• Live in San Francisco (2013)

Cate Le Bon

• Mug Museum (2013)

Devon Williams

• Euphoria (2011)

Rose for Bohdan

• There it is, The Creeping Moral Decay of the Past Thousand Years (2009)

References