The Minus 5
THE MINUS 5 is yet another band featuring Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck, where a three-decade collaboration started. The friends have shared vans (with occasional bus) with R.E.M., Tuatara, Baseball Project, Filthy Friends, Tired Pony, CeDell Davis, Robyn Hitchcock/Venus 3, No Ones (and no doubt a few others). But The Minus 5, with its floating (and frankly ridiculous) membership, remains the core of what they do, which is whatever they want, most of the time. Over the course of at least 13 (?) albums, 30+ singles/compilations, and countless line-up fluctuations, the band-that-wasn’t-meant-to-be-a-band has toured with both Wilco and Tweedy, and appeared on Conan O’Brien and The Late Show/David Letterman.
Their newest long-playing effort will be released on Yep Roc in early 2025, performed by McCaughey/Buck, Linda Pitmon Wynn, Kurt Bloch, and Debbi Peterson, with assistance from Spencer Tweedy, Patterson Hood, and probably a few Players-To-Be-Named-Later.