
Ross William Hamilton/The Oregonian Tomorrow evening (Tuesday, November 15th), XPN Welcomes John Wesley Harding to World Cafe Live with The King Charles Trio and The Minus Five. John has a new album that he recorded in Portland called The Sound Of His Own Voice , which was released on October 11th. The album was produced by Harding and Scott McCaughey (The Minus Five, The Baseball Project, R.E.M.) and features the King Charles Trio, (John Moen, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee and Nate Query of The Decemberists), Peter Buck [...]

Singer-songwriter, novelist, Cabinet Of Wonders member, and Philadelphia resident John Wesley Harding has a new album coming out on October 11th called The Sound Of His Own Voice on Yep Roc Records. A new song called "There's A Starbucks (Where The Starbucks Used To Be)" is included on a digital music sampler now available from Utne Reader here ; you can also download it below. Harding performs at World Cafe Live on November 15th and is touring with a band that includes Jenny Conlee-Drizos, Chris Funk, John Moen, and Nate Query from [...]
For the second time in three years, Athens, Georgia's finest has put out a winning full-length, adding another chapter to its 30 years' worth of influential releases.

L'idea sembra è venuta a Gary Lightbody , voce e frontman degli Snow Patrol , alla fine dello scorso anno. Così ha contattato il chitarrista degli R.E.M. Peter Buck, il batterista dei Belle And Sebastian Richard Colburn e Scott McCaughey dei Minus Five (da anni ormai in tour e in studio con gli stessi R.E.M. ). Detto fatto: messa in piedi la band, ha deciso di incidere un disco. Il gruppo si chiama Tired Pony e il primo disco arriverà nei negozi il prossimo 12 [...]

John Wesley Harding - Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead , the new album by John Wesley Harding (aka Wesley Stace) and backed by The Minus Five (featuring Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck of REM), came out physically and digitally on Tuesday ( March 10 ). Changed is Harding's first rock album since 2004's Adam's Apple and it also features collaborations with [...]

I am a Wicked Child Radiohead Com Lag (2plus2isfive) EMI : 2004 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] Early to Bed Morphine Like Swimming Dreamworks : 1997 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] Brinx Job Pavement Wowee Zowee Matador : 1995 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] Bamboo Shoots Battle TRS-80 Backup:01 Invisible : 2001 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] [...]
I always like to wait until after the new year to try and put together a 'best of' list of the top songs that I enjoyed in the past 365 days. Here's last year's top 20 21 that worked their way into my head, and stayed there. MP3: 21 Camera Obscura ...
Continuing with my Best Songs of 2006 post (see songs 21 through 25 here ): 20. the minus 5: cemetary row buy the album | yep rock records site The Minus 5 are a band jam packed with tremendous musicians, including Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck of R.E.M. fame, and have connections with Uncle Tupelo and Wilco, another huge favorite. Here The Minus 5 team up with Colin Meloy of [...]