Silver Jews News: Silver Jews' David Berman Quitting Music

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Silver Jews mastermind David Berman plans to quit music, according to messages he posted on the Drag City Records Web site. A Jan. 31 show at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville, Tenn., will be the group's last.

"I guess I am moving over to another category. Screenwriting or muckraking. I've got to move on. Can't be like all the careerists doncha know," Berman wrote in a post confirmed as authentic by his publicist. "I'm forty two and I know what to do. I'm a writer, see?"

He added, "I always said we would stop before we got bad. If I continue to...