
The story of Dan Maloney's Death Ships is one of a band outgrowing a local scene, gaining embrace of the Indie Tastemakers riding an arc of success but ultimately stalling. A familiar story to be sure (see: Tapes 'N Tapes). For over nine years Dan Maloney has been Death Ships - a band whose beginnings in Iowa City were as a side project. According to his January 2009 interview with Splice , he was in an Emo band called Faultlines when he decided to work on some solo songs. "...on the side I [...]