I've gone high concept this week, and that is not a reference to this week's cover art which is by my friend Davie Kaufmann. No, I mean there's a gimmick: all the songs on Summer Fridays 4.10 are less than two minutes long. All 33 of them (maybe even 34). With this kind of criteria, we don't really have much in the way of new music (two songs by my count) but quality remains high of course. I've tried to vary it up as much as possible because the bulk of the two-minutes-or-less songs in my collection are of the [...]
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As long as there's been records, there's been novelty records. Having grown up on my share of Dr. Demento , I guess I have a bit of a soft spot for 'em. And that's what we have here, performed by a supergroup of sorts: In 2008, The Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn put together the Baseball Project with like-minded hardball fan Scott McCaughey of the Young Fresh Fellows and Minus 5 . McCaughey sidelines with R.E.M. and recruited Peter [...]
Some 30 years ago, a 15-minute firestorm on record by Circle Jerks made a name for Lisa Fancher's Frontier Records . Since then, the indie label has put out records by Redd Kross, T.S.O.L., The Damned, the Young Fresh Fellows, Elliott Smith's band Heatmiser, and Suicidal Tendencies' successful debut album, among many others. When your label has 30 years of staying power, you need to celebrate, of course, so Frontier will be doing just that this fall. On November 7th, in conjunction with weekly club Part Time Punks , Los Angeles' Echoplex is hosting a lineup [...]
Filed under: News , New Music While R.E.M. fans await the group's 15th studio album, guitarist Peter Buck has found a number of ways to keep himself busy. Last week, the first fruits of Buck's labor with Tired Pony -- a cameo-heavy project with Snow Patrol 's Gary Lightbody -- surfaced on Spinner . Now, as Slicing Up Eyeballs reports, there's pictorial proof of Buck in the studio, contributing mandolin and guitar to the Decemberists ' sixth LP. [...]
El supergrupo del verano se llama Tired Pony y lo encabezan Gary Lightbody, vocalista de Snow Patrol ; Peter Buck, guitarrista de R.E.M. , y Richard Colburn, batería de Belle and Sebastian . A esta lista hay que añadir los nombres de Iain Archer, Garret "Jacknife" L ee, Scott McCaughey (The Young Fresh Fellows y The Minus 5) y Troy Stewart. La génesis de la banda fue responsabilidad de Gary Lightbody, quien soñaba con formar un grupo que le escribiera cartas de amor a la campiña. El resultado parcial es The place we ran from , el cual [...]
During one song I did not recognize, Hitchcock took a wild fuzztone solo while still singing the lead melody, which is not a thing people can just do. Rieflin delivered a brief studious lecture about how to make a proper studio recording as human hands grew from spectators' eyeballs and undid the Gordian knot that binds commerce and music in our post-industrial society.
This weekend comes the long Seattle tradition of SeaFair, with the Blue Angels and Hydroplane racing. I say why no spice it up a bit this year, and introduce a theme song to the event? Seattle legends Young Fresh Fellows already have one ready to go. With the song "Go Blue Angels Go" (on their recently released album I Think This Is ), the band has truly captured the quirky spirit of the event: Fly Blue Angels fly Over the hydroplanes [...]
For many years now Scott McCaughey has been making a living as one of the auxiliary members of R.E.M., and as the leader of his one-time side project The Minus Five. But before either of these endeavors came into the picture, McCaughey was the ringleader of one of Seattle's best kept secrets, the Young Fresh Fellows. The band has just released I Think This Is , its first record in eight years.
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Wouldn't it be great if you could just ring up your favorite band, the one that hasn't made a record in eight years, and say, "C'mon, we're going in the studio!"? You can if you are Robyn Hitchock and the band is the Young Fresh Fellows. The Seattle combo's Hitchcock-produced album, 'I Think This Is,' hit stores last week. College/indie heroes in the late '80s and early '90s, the Young Fresh Fellows are, as Hitchcock's tells Spinner, "a great, really great, [...]
Tomorrow begins the first ever No Depression Music Festival , featuring a slew of alt-country/americana acts and a good chunk of this week's crop of new releases seems to be in a similar mode. New releases from Son Volt, Bowerbirds and the latest from Scott McCaughey's The Minus Five. Playlist: New Releases 07.07.09 The Minus 5 - Killingsworth Stream / Purchase [mp3] [...]
The Young Fresh Fellows stock up on irreverence Seattle's Young Fresh Fellows return with their first album since 2001's Because We Hate You . With band leader Scott McCaughey having joined REM as an auxiliary member and turning out albums with the loose-knit Minus 5, the Fellows have become something of a side project. Add to that the late-80s departure of co-founder Chuck Carroll, and the band's irreverent ethos is more of a thread than whole cloth, stitching things together rather than organically binding twenty-somethings who live and play [...]
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The Young Fresh Fellows have been around since the early 80's, making records with Conrad Uno in his Egg Studios before most kids today even existed. As local lore states, they were formed in a garage, or a basement, or both. Influenced by the Sonics, but with a sense of humor, the band originally started out a s trio led by Scott McCaughey, but later becoming a four piece and somewhere along the way recruiting Fastback Kurt Bloch. Some of the humor in their songs may be a little dated as far [...]
The intimidating Monsters Of Folk (pictured)–Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket's Jim James and singer/songwriter M. Ward—are releasing their self-titled debut September 22 (on Shangri-La Music). The quartet has been playing shows under the Monsters moniker since 2004 … Minus 5/Young Fresh Fellows mastermind Scott McCaughey returns July 7 with great [...]
Yesterday we looked at Scott McCaughey's forthcoming album with alt-country Supergroup The Minus 5, today we look at his effort with his original band The Young Fresh Fellows. Both albums will be released on July 7th.I Think This Is represents the first album from Young Fresh Fellows since 2001. Robyn Hitchcock is in the producer's chair for this one, as the Seattle quartet enters its second
Food has often been an overlooked part of pop music. Where the love songs and political anthems have been put on a pedestal, songs about food are often branded as gimmicky or corny. It's really not fair. There have been some fantastic songs about food, but beyond that food has been instrumental in the legends of pop music. Elvis Presley died eating a sandwich. Fast food restaurants have used competitions giving away tacos and grand slams to touring bands to lure in more customers. And of course, many artists have used food as metaphors to sex or love or a [...]
The Villain - The Old 97s Sittin on a Pitchfork - Young Fresh Fellows Am I the only one who's having a hard time getting worked up about this AIG bonuses thing? It certainly seems that way. Don't get me wrong: it's certainly irritating that these bonuses exist, but I find the way it's blown up to be rather silly for any number of reasons. First of all, it's produced some really nutty responses, including a number of folks who have asked why we can't just refuse to pay [...]
When people think of Seattle music in the early 90's, names such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Alice In Chains immediately spring to mind. But lurking underneath the grunge exterior was a much more interesting and diverse collection of bands, many of whom had been rocking the Seattle circuit for years.
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