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About Me

Hello EP (Hello Recording Club 1994) -- Old Liquidator (Glitterhouse/East Side Digital 1995) -- The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy (Malt/Hollywood 1997) -- Let The War Against Music Begin (Mammoth 2001) -- I Don't Know Who I Am (Let The War Against Music Begin Vol. 2) (Return to Sender 2003) -- In Rock (Book 2000/Yep Roc 2004) -- Down With Wilco (Yep Roc 2003) -- At The Organ EP (Yep Roc 2004) -- "The Gun Album" (Yep Roc 2006)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/20/2007
Band Website: theminus5.com, universaltrendsetter.org
Band Members: Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, John Ramberg, Bill Rieflin, plus Ken Stringfellow, Wilco, Jim Talstra, Ezra Holbrook, John Moen, Jon Auer, Morgan Fisher, Jessy Greene, Jon Wurster, Joe Adragna, Tucker Jackson, Dennis Diken, Colin Meloy, Barrett Martin, Steve Berlin, Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Pollard, Mike Mills, the Possibilities and/or Nutria, John Wesley Harding, Dag Juhlin, Skerik, Presidents of the USA, Rebecca Gates, Charlie Francis, Kid Krupa (RIP), the Bambi Molesters, Chris Eckman, Sumner Erickson, Freddy Steady Krc, Tin Cup Prophette, Ward Dotson, Steve Wynn, Andrew Rieger, Mary Lou Lord, Lee Renaldo, Ben Gibbard, Little Sue, Mike Coykendall, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query, the Shee Bee Gees, Steve Turner, Casey Neill, and pretty much everybody else.
Influences: Beatles, Neil Young, Kinks, Michael Hurley, Beach Boys, Buzzcocks, Johnny Cash, Nick Lowe, Jacques Brel, Wilco, Bill Fay, Soft Machine, Ronettes, Soft Boys, Gram Parsons, Charles Mingus, Velvet Underground, Elf Power, Undertones, The Standells, John Cale, Jefferson Airplane, Shangri-Las, Professor Longhair, Ramones, Bowie, The Beat, Todd Rundgren, Moby Grape, The Byrds, Archie Shepp, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Big Star, FSK, GBV, SCOTS
Sounds Like: Falling down some stairs
Record Label: Yep Roc
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Praha is Prog

We arrived in Prague at 7 a.m. today after a bumpy bus ride from Budapest. Where we (that's R.E.M.) had had an amazing show at the Sziget festival. Well, I didn't sleep much on the bus -- there was ...
Posted by The Minus 5 on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:13:00 PST

Limited edition vinyl EP in October

Hey there people... Just put up the M5 version of "Burned" -- the fantastic Neil Young Buffalo Springfield number. It's a "TASTE" of the forthcoming six-song vinyl 12-inch, which Yep Roc has kindly...
Posted by The Minus 5 on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:14:00 PST

Rock For Darfur November 10

The United Nations calls it "the world's greatest humanitarian crisis." The US calls it genocide. The people of Darfur have suffered for 4 years in a crisis that has left over 400,000 dead and 2.5 mi...
Posted by The Minus 5 on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:23:00 PST