The Minus 5, the pop collective formed by Scott McCaughey of the Young Fresh Fellows, is back with a new CD, Down With Wilco. Departing from McCaughey's historic process of recording basic parts and gathering additional recorded pieces from participants, Down With Wilco is a much more collaborative effort. Along with recurrent participants, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Ken Stringfellow of the Posies, Down With Wilco, of course, features Wilco members Jeff Tweedy, John Stirrat, Glenn Kotche,    [ read more ]

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No one knows just what would happen if Scott McCaughey happened to have a few weeks to himself with nothing to do musically, largely because he seems determined to prevent that from ever happening. An example: in January 2000, while McCaughey was waiting out the delays that postponed the release of the Minus 5/Young Fresh Fellows split album Let the War Against Music Begin, he got word that the much-loved Chicago venue Lounge Ax was going to close, and he joined the parade of artists who t   [ read more ]

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Nicknamed "the gun album" (because a firearm appears on the album's cover and pops up in the lyrics of several of the songs), 2006's The Minus 5 finds Scott McCaughey indulging his passion for British Invasion-era pop stuff (not an uncommon development), with an all-semi-star collection of friends and collaborators helping to put it on tape, including Peter Buck, Jeff Tweedy, Colin Meloy, John Wesley Harding, Ken Stringfellow, Kelly Hogan, and even Morgan Fisher (yeah, the o   [ read more ]

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