Travis Morrison

Travis Michael Morrison (born December 16, 1972) is an American musician and web developer from Northern Virginia, United States. He is best known as leader of indie-rock band The Dismemberment Plan and as a solo artist.

Early life After picking up various instruments around age 12, Morrison stuck with guitar and began forming bands throughout his high school days at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was on Lake Braddock's English Team and claimed to be "pathetically happy" upon defeating the english team of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology one year.

After "getting out of Fairfax" he attended The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia for three years before dropping out to pursue a band. He worked at the campus radio station WCWM, which he claimed was "worth tuition right there." At WCWM he became well versed in many types of music, "from John Coltrane to German art rock." He continues to have wide-ranging musical taste to this very day, having claimed to enjoy everything from Britney Spears, Gladys Knight, XTC, Fugazi, Ludacris and Go-go. He finds additional inspiration in the music of Harry Nilsson, which he often listens to before a concert. and is currently streaming on Travis' website and was produced by Travis's former bandmate, Jason Cadell. The album was mixed by Joel Hamilton.

The final Hellfighters lineup (as of 2009) was: Travis Morrison David Brown Brandon Kalber Vince Magno Thomas Orgren

"Retirement" and current activities In the summer of 2009, Morrison's official website was updated to state that he has retired from making music, and that there will be no more shows, records or bands. When The Dismemberment Plan reunited for shows in early 2011, Morrison said of the 'retirement', "I think I just didn’t have any plans for any solo music, and I just think I thought it sounded funny to say I was retiring ... I mean, it seems more fun than to say, 'I have no plans.'" In March 2011, he told Glide Magazine that Time Travel plans on making an album. In May 2012, D.C. label Bad Friend Records released a 7" of previously unheard material the Travis Morrison Hellfighters recorded before breaking up.

Personal life As of mid-2012, Morrison lives in the New York City area, works as a computer programmer (formerly at The Washington Post and then Huffington Post), and is married to journalist and podcaster Katherine Goldstein.

Morrison's other singing outlet has been regular participation in an Episcopal Church choir. ("The second I saw, but the first was sucker-punch city.") In "Born in '72" (Travistan): The verse which starts, "Can't ask for more so we're unfulfilled," up to, "through and through," is a lyrical and rhythmic reference to Fugazi's "Break", the opening track on their 1998 album, "End Hits". In "Get Me Off This Coin D" (Travistan): "You named a town, after me now, and no one there can vote" (from the perspective of George Washington, the last of a series of songs commemorating the four presidents on common United States coinage) In "Hawkins' Rock" (All Y'All): "Drivin' down I-95, son" and "Drivin' down I-81, yeah" In "I Do" (All Y'All): "swimming through the heat of a D.C. dawn" "East Side of the River" (All Y'All) is about the part of Washington, DC, east of the Anacostia River.

Discography The Dismemberment Plan Can We Be Mature? (EP) (1994) (1995) Give Me the Cure (compilation) (1996) Ooh Do I Love You (compilation) (1996) The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified (1997) Fort Reno Benefit (compilation) (1997) What Do You Want Me to Say? (single) (1997) The Ice of Boston (EP) (1998) Emergency & I (1999) Dismemberment Plan/Juno (split EP) (2000) Change (2001) A People's History of the Dismemberment Plan (compilation) (2003) Live in Japan 2011 (2011) Uncanney Valley (2013)

Solo Travistan (2004)

Travis Morrison Hellfighters All Y'All (2007) Cruisin' (All Night Long) (single) (2012)

The Burlies The Burlies EP (2014)