Throw Me the Statue was formed by Scott Reitherman after he began self-releasing CDs in 2004.

A full band came into shape in early 2007 as Throw Me the Statue's debut album Moonbeams was released on Reitherman's Baskerville Hill label and later on Secretly Canadian.

[1][2] They have been featured on Pitchfork[3] and NPR[4] and have received airplay on the independent Seattle radio station KEXP-FM.

[7] Their second album, Creaturesque, was released in August 2009, with Paste magazine rating it a 7.9 out of 10, calling the songs "unabashedly infectious.

[9] In 2008 Throw Me the Statue toured the U.S., performed at South by Southwest, Bumbershoot, the Sasquatch Festival, and opened for Cake in Seattle.