Oranger, an American indie rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1997 with Mike Drake, Matt Harris, and Jim Lindsay. They began their career with Chad Dyer on bass, performing at the Noise Pop Festival before releasing their debut album Doorway to Norway in 1998. In early 1999, Scott Kannberg of Pavement and Drake founded Amazing Grease Records, which reissued Doorway to Norway. Patrick Main joined the lineup in 1999, and the band recorded The Quiet Vibrationland. In 2000, Oranger released the album Shutdown the Sun. Their final album, New Comes and Goes, was released in 2005 on Eenie Meenie Records. The band's cover of "Mr. Sandman" was featured in the Xbox video game Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse" and the television show Vampire Diaries. Oranger disbanded in 2006, with Matt Harris passing away in 2021.
