* Order Killingsworth on CD and download the full digital album from your Stash right away! Street Date: 07/07/2009 Item #: CD-YEP-2166

This is another Minus 5 album. Now the eighth LP from the loose creative collective/serious drinking association helmed by wayfarer and musical enabler Scott McCaughey. This one is called Killingsworth. A recording worthy of the murders committed during its genesis? Perhaps. Incoherent yarns mostly told after midnight by highway hobos in and around Portland, Oregon? Surely. Killingsworth features an incarnation of The Minus 5 including apparatus support poles "McOi," Peter Buck and John Moen (Decemberists). Other gypsies in the carnival include The She Bee Gees, further Decemberists Colin Meloy, Jenny Conlee, Chris Funk, Nate Query and many more. Pedal steel belted radials drive throughout the gravelly fern-lined byways of the neighborhood of Killingsworth. Either ride along with the show or get out of the way of its careening wheel man, drunk with liquor and blood. Up to you, friend.

* This vinyl EP is available exclusively at select independent retail stores and at yeproc.com. Street Date: 11/11/2008 Item #: ISI-YEP-2194

The Sad Hasselhoff 12" vinyl EP features six news songs foreshadowing The Minus 5's forthcoming 2009 album.

Street Date: 02/07/2006 Item #: CD-YEP-2065

This is the new Minus 5 album. Against all odds, it is perhaps the seventh full-lengther in a career marked primarily by catastrophe, shame and fisticuffs. (Leave triumphs to those that beseech them.) This record could not have happened without the superhuman efforts of Scott McCaughey. Even though Mr. McCaughey had the assistance of the usual horde of ragtag bandoleros (see below), it was Scott who hung the notes on the staff, gathered the orchestra (paying triple union scale, out of pocket), set up a microphone, manufactured the recording tape, invented electricity, and provided each participant with a sponge and a marmot. Therefore, regarding this project, it is at Scott McCaughey only that any projectiles or pearls must be hurled. The Minus 5 (a/k/a The Gun Album) features the McCaughey/Buck/Ramberg/Rieflin line-up, as well as two tracks recorded in Chicago with Wilco, and guest appearances by John Wesley Harding, Kelly Hogan, Morgan Fisher (Mott), Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger/Long Winters), and Colin Meloy and John Moen (Decemberists).

Street Date: 11/02/2004 Item #: CD-YEP-2080

The band that perpetually creates anachronistic music in a far, distant future returns to the present to revisit a past collaboration. Evil mastermind Scott McCaughey and his sonic frontiersmen are joined by the uber-handsome members of Wilco as they create 7 tracks previously unreleased on compact disc and a video for “The Town That Lost Its Groove Supply.” The venerable CNN calls him “the unstoppable man of music.” Not to outdone -- Scott calls himself one of “three of the greatest songwriters of our time.” Scott's got it all and he's not afraid to flaunt it. Do you like slow songs? He'll do it. How about rockers? Oh yeah, he knows how to do that, too. Lay down your arms and accept that your fate has been predetermined by the sarcastic avalanche of pop that seems to spew endlessly from Scott's mind. You loved them on Down With Wilco, so why not take the plunge into this sea of newly recorded material, alternate versions, and moving pictures? Features performances from Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Ken Stringfellow (the Posies), Rebecca Gates (Spinanes), the mighty men of Wilco, and everyone else who Scott has on speed dial.

Street Date: 02/24/2004 Item #: CD-YEP-2064

If you've been following the career of Scott McCaughey, master musician, raconteur and leader of the musical collective/brain trust known as the Minus 5, you'll wonder what well of inspiration "McOi" has been taking slugs from. When he's not pulling down sideman duty in R.E.M., the Young Fresh Fellows' co-founder has hitched his wagon to myriad musical stars - including tour stints with Tuatura, Cedell Davis and most recently the members of Wilco on the Yep Roc release "Down With Wilco". While a new Minus 5 studio album is in the works, Yep Roc is proud to release a new, deluxe version of "In Rock", for which, says McCaughey, he and the band have "dropped two wildly worthy songs and added four new complimentary numbers and a barcode." Which makes "In Rock," originally a printing of a 1000 CDs on the mysterious Book Records, an honest-to-God, bona fida real album. From the Northwest garage-rock grind of tracks like "In a Lonely Coffin" to the Beatle-esque pop mutations of "The Girl I Never Met," this is classic Minus 5 material, sparkling with the wit, taste and melodic sophistication we've come to expect from this bunch. Essential listening. Standard Jewel Case/Box Lot-30

* Buy the CD or LP and get the digital album in your Stash right away as DRM-free MP3s! Street Date: 02/25/2003 Item #: CD-YEP-2052

The first-ever LP release of the now-legendary rock summit between Scott McCaughey's astonishingly prolific Minus 5 collective and the members of experimental pop stalwarts Wilco. Combining the art of collaborative recording with the craft of precision lacquer sculpture (and with 5 previously unreleased tracks not available on CD), this lovingly crafted, 180-gram vinyl tour de force is sure to remain a family keepsake for years to come. Features performances from Ken Stringfellow (the Posies), Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Rebecca Gates (Spinanes), Sean O'Hagan & Charlie Francis (the High Llamas), Christy McWilson, JessyGreene, Brian Paulson, and the entire cast of the hit Broadway musical "Oh! Wilco!" The LP contains additional tracks: "Lyrical Stance (I've Got A)," "Formerly Hail Centurion," "One More Bottle To Go," "Something Or Nothing," and "The Days Of Wine And Booze." This is a limited edition LP, there will only be one press of Down With Wilco on vinyl. Be sure to get yours now! All orders of this album come with a free digital version which you can download from your Stash right away!

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