The Minus 5

Artist Biography For The Minus 5

Formed In 1993 Scott McCaughey Designed The Minus 5 As A Pop Collective With Each Record The Group Put Out Featuring A New Lineup. Throughout These Releases He Worked The Most Frequently With R.E.M.'s Peter Buck Who Was Featured On The Group's Eponymous Debut EP Which Was Only Released Through They Might Be Giants' Mail-Order Record Club Hello CD Of The Month Club In 1994. Their Full-Length Debut Album Old Liquidator Was Released In 1995 And The Minus 5's Lineup Consisted Of McCaughey Buck And Jon Auer And Ken Stringfellow Of The Posies. After Releasing Old Liquidator On East Side Digital The Group Reconvened In Late 1996 To Record Their Hollywood Records Debut The Lonesome Death Of Buck McCoy Released The Following Spring. The Same Year McCaughey's 1989 Solo Album My Chartreuse Opinion Was Reissued By Hollywood As A Minus 5 Album. In 2001 The Minus Five And The Young Fresh Fellows Another McCaughey Project Released A Split Double Album Let The War Against Music Begin/Because We Hate You The "Let The War Against Music Begin" Half Was The Minus 5 Submission. After A Change Of Guard At Hollywood Records The Minus 5 Found Themselves Releasing Music Via Independent Channels With The Return To Sender Label Releasing A Collection Of Outtakes From Let The War Against Music Begin Called I Don't Know Who I Am Before McCaughey Signed The Band To The Yep Roc Label For His Collaboration With Wilco Down With Wilco. Yep Roc Later Issued An EP Dominated By Down With Wilco Outtakes At The Organ And Reissued In Rock A Collection Of Tunes McCaughey Recorded In A Single Day In 2000. In 2002 The Band Contributed A Track "Girl I Never Met" To Rami Jaffee Pete Yorn And Marc Dauer's Trampoline Records Release Trampoline Records Volume I. The Band's Seventh Album Self-Titled But Known As The Gun Album Was Released Early 2006 And Features Along The Regular Line-Up Guest Appearances By Wilco Kelly Hogan And The Decemberists' Singer/songwriter Colin Meloy Among Others. Buck And McCaughey Went On To Play In The Baseball Project Together In 2008.

50 Top Music Tracks For The Minus 5 - Frogtoon Music

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Biography - The Minus 5

Formed In 1993 Scott McCaughey Designed The Minus 5 As A Pop Collective With Each Record The Group Put Out Featuring A New Lineup. Throughout These Releases He Worked The Most Frequently With R.E.M.'s Peter Buck Who Was Featured On The Group's Eponymous Debut EP Which Was Only Released Through They Might Be Giants' Mail-Order Record Club Hello CD Of The Month Club In 1994. Their Full-Length Debut Album Old Liquidator Was Released In 1995 And The Minus 5's Lineup Consisted Of McCaughey Buck And Jon Auer And Ken Stringfellow Of The Posies. After Releasing Old Liquidator On East Side Digital The Group Reconvened In Late 1996 To Record Their Hollywood Records Debut The Lonesome Death Of Buck McCoy Released The Following Spring. The Same Year McCaughey's 1989 Solo Album My Chartreuse Opinion Was Reissued By Hollywood As A Minus 5 Album. In 2001 The Minus Five And The Young Fresh Fellows Another McCaughey Project Released A Split Double Album Let The War Against Music Begin/Because We Hate You The "Let The War Against Music Begin" Half Was The Minus 5 Submission. After A Change Of Guard At Hollywood Records The Minus 5 Found Themselves Releasing Music Via Independent Channels With The Return To Sender Label Releasing A Collection Of Outtakes From Let The War Against Music Begin Called I Don't Know Who I Am Before McCaughey Signed The Band To The Yep Roc Label For His Collaboration With Wilco Down With Wilco. Yep Roc Later Issued An EP Dominated By Down With Wilco Outtakes At The Organ And Reissued In Rock A Collection Of Tunes McCaughey Recorded In A Single Day In 2000. In 2002 The Band Contributed A Track "Girl I Never Met" To Rami Jaffee Pete Yorn And Marc Dauer's Trampoline Records Release Trampoline Records Volume I. The Band's Seventh Album Self-Titled But Known As The Gun Album Was Released Early 2006 And Features Along The Regular Line-Up Guest Appearances By Wilco Kelly Hogan And The Decemberists' Singer/songwriter Colin Meloy Among Others. Buck And McCaughey Went On To Play In The Baseball Project Together In 2008. read less

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