Sorry About Dresden

In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the indie rock outfit Sorry About Dresden assembled during the middle of 1997, its lineup anchored by vocalist Matt Oberst, guitarist Eric Roehrig, bassist Matt Tomich, and drummer James Hepler. The single “Crusades” marked their recorded introduction early the next year, after which they surfaced on the anthologies Pet Sounds, Vol. 1 and The Bridges of Dissonant County ahead of the full-length The Mayor Will Abdicate, which surfaced in late 1999. Early 2001 brought How the Cold War Began, and later that October the band issued its Saddle Creek debut Convenience of Indecision. Let It Rest followed in March 2003.