Cass McCombs

Cass McCombs (born 1977) [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/22/NSE8TF2RR.DTL&hw=nightlife&sc=562&sn=009 Cass McCombs: Cagey singer-songwriter coughs up a few words ] ] is an American musician. He received critical acclaim for his 2003 album "A" [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=FB&p_theme=fb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1080153AAFCC32A8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM FresnoBee.com: Archive search for "( (unq:"1080153AAFCC32A8") ) " ] ] and his album "Dropping the Writ" was named one of Amazon.com's Best of 2007 [ [http://www.amazon.com/Dropping-Writ-Cass-Mccombs/dp/B000VFGQBQ Dropping the Writ] ] . McCombs toured with Modest Mouse in 2005 before moving to Los Angeles to work on his third full-length, "Dropping the Writ". [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jxfyxqe0ldhe~T1 Cass McCombs] at Allmusic]

History

Cass McCombs was born in Concord, California. Before starting his music career he worked for a time at the Park Theater, a vintage movie theater built in 1944 in Lafayette, California. At the age of 23 he set off to the East Coast and began networking and performing open mics in New York City and Baltimore. He has spent most of his adult life traveling the United States, moving from one city to the next, settling at one point in Baltimore, where he recorded his debut E.P. Not the Way, which was released in 2003 by a local indie label .A was released early the following year and was distributed in Europe and the U.K. by 4AD. McCombs and his band spent much of 2003 and 2004 touring, playing the All Tomorrow's Parties festival and supporting labelmates Blonde Redhead. Early in 2005, the Sacred Heart single revealed the more polished and poppy (though still dark) direction of his second album, PREfection, which arrived that spring. McCombs toured with Modest Mouse after the album's release. In 2005, he moved to Los Angeles to work on his third full-length, Dropping the Writ. [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jxfyxqe0ldhe~T1 Cass McCombs] at Allmusic] It was released on October 9, 2007 by Domino Records.

Discography

*"Not the Way" (Monitor Records)
*"A" (Monitor Records)
*"PREfection" (4AD)
*"Dropping the Writ" (Domino Records)

References

External links

* [http://www.cassmccombs.com/ Cass McCombs official website]
* [http://www.viceland.com/int/v14n11/htdocs/mystery_man.php?country=us Mystery Man] - Interview w/ Vice Magazine
*Pitchfork Media review of PREfection [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/19787/Cass_McCombs_PREfection link]
* [http://www.cissme.com/beggars/rm/4ad/mccoc/video/cad2505cd-05_rvh.ram Video for Sacred Heart from "PREfection"]
*Transcript of interview on National Public Radio's "World Cafe" show [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15724284]
*"Portland Mercury" article by Zac Pennington [http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=34372&category=22153]