Dan Hoerner (born May 13, 1969) is an

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and author. He is known for being the

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and

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of the

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-based band

Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate is an American emo/indie rock band from Seattle, formed in 1992. The band currently consists of founding members Jeremy Enigk (vocals, guitar), Dan Hoerner (guitar) and William Goldsmith (drums), alongside Greg Suran (gui ...

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Music career

Hoerner was a fan of

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and

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bands, and decided to become a musician after attending a concert of

Fugazi Fugazi (; ) is an American post-hardcore band that formed in Washington, D.C., in 1986. The band consists of guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally, and drummer Brendan Canty. They are noted for their style-tr ...

. Hoerner became the housemate of bassist

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while attending the

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, and they formed the band which would later become Sunny Day Real Estate. After being joined by drummer

William Goldsmith William Goldsmith (born July 4, 1972) is an American drummer best known as a member of Sunny Day Real Estate and former member of Foo Fighters. Currently drumming for Assertion, he has toured with Mike Watt and IQU, performed on many recording ...

, they started the band Empty Set. After the band recorded a two song demo, they changed their name to Chewbacca Kaboom, and band recorded a six song demo under that name. Later, the band once again changed their name to One Day I Stopped Breathing. Finally, the band settled on the name

.Grubbs, 2008. pp.74-75 From the band's founding as Empty Set until after releasing the songs "Flatland Spider" and "The Onlies" as Sunny Day Real Estate, Dan Hoerner was the band's lead vocalist as well as rhythm guitarist and keyboardist.

Jeremy Enigk Jeremy Enigk (; born July 16, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter, vocalist and guitarist / multi-instrumentalist. He is known as a solo artist, a film score composer, and as the lead vocalist, bassist, rhythm guitarist and keyboardist of the ...

eventually took over on lead vocals from Dan Hoerner. However, Dan continued to supply back up vocals, as well as performing as the band's lead guitarist and backing vocalist. After releasing two albums, the group disbanded. During this time, Hoerner had moved to a farm in rural

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''. December 3, 1998. The group reformed in 1998 (minus original bassist

, now of

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, in this time, Enigk moved to the bass), releasing two more albums before disbanding again. Three original members of Sunny Day Real Estate had a quasi-reunion in the early 2000s as

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. Hoerner was not involved. In June 2009, it was confirmed that Sunny Day Real Estate would be reuniting once again, and the band toured extensively in the U.S.A, playing on the Jimmy Fallon Show, as well as playing shows in Barcelona and London. In 2014, Hoerner revived The Big Dipper, a historic live music venue in

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. The venue is presently open, and hosts music a wide range of music including heavy metal,

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. Hoerner can be heard on the EP ''

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. Hoerner also scored a short film b
Rohit Colin Rao
called "Someone and Someone, Inc."

Author

Dan authored a book, ''The Little Monkey Chronicles'', , a collection of short stories illustrated by Chris Thompson and published by Clearly the Underdog Publishing. In addition, in 1999 Hoerner and John Despirito co-founded the now defunct online art community called The Art Conspiracy. The Art Conspiracy was an early social media platform that contained many elements later incorporated into sites like Myspace and Facebook. At its peak, The Art Conspiracy hosted more than 500,000 users.

References

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