Blog: LocalCut

I'm curious about this whole Baseball Project thing. Now, I know nothing about baseball (though I did once posses a Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card ), but there's certainly something special about attending a game. And the band is Peter Buck from R.E.M., Steve Wynn from Dream Syndicate and Portland's own Scott McCaughey from the Minus Five (and, y'know, R.E.M. also) playing songs about baseball mythology and history. People who know a lot about baseball are interesting to me. The Yep Roc-signed power pop group appeared on Letterman last Friday. Not a big deal for these guys individually, perhaps, [...]