You didn’t expect a band called The Baseball Project to release an album in the winter, did you? Just as players begin filing into camps across Arizona and Florida comes news of the group’s third album – appropriately titled 3rd – which will be released on Yep Roc on March 25, perfectly timed between the … Continue reading The Baseball Project unveils 3rd cover art, tracklisting
You didn’t have to be a baseball fan to appreciate what The Baseball Project was doing on Friday night at Martini Ranch, part of the band’s weeklong tour playing spring training parks around the Valley. Oh, I could tell my wife about Curt Flood, Ichiro Suzuki and Ted Fucking Williams until her eyes glaze over. … Continue reading The Baseball Project: Past Time (live at Martini Ranch)
After releasing their second album, Volume 2: High and Inside (Yep Roc), on March 1, The Baseball Project will embark on one of the more brilliant (if not obvious) tour runs. The band – Steve Wynn, Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck and Linda Pitmon – will wind its way to Arizona, where it will play seven … Continue reading Incoming: The Baseball Project, March 25
As promised, The Baseball Project has delivered the second song of its “Broadside Ballads” series, in which the band writes and releases a song each month during the baseball season. This one deals with something near and dear to my ever-broken heart: the Cubs. I can’t say I’m as optimistic as Scott McCaughey, who makes … Continue reading The Baseball Project: Cubs 2010
Is there a better band to feature on Opening Day than one that calls itself The Baseball Project? Just in time for the new season, the side group that features Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3) and Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M.) has teamed up with ESPN’s … Continue reading The Baseball Project: All Future and No Past
I talked a few times earlier this year about The Baseball Project, the collaboration of Scott McCaughey and Steve Wynn (check a Q&A with Wynn here). What better time to discuss the band again than during the playoffs? To that end, the group is putting on a pretty cool contest: They want you to predict … Continue reading The Baseball Project offers contest
I had the good fortune last week to talk with Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3) about his newest group: The Baseball Project (see previous post). We talked music and baseball – what could be better? – and about the origins of the group, which includes Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, … Continue reading Q&A with Steve Wynn of the Baseball Project
The Baseball Project, a Scott McCaughey- and Steve Wynn-led band previously discussed here, appeared on Late Show with David Letterman recently. The resulting performance is below. Also, McCaughey and Wynn chatted with, naturally, MLB.com. See the (pretty brief) interview here.
The news of the Baseball Project – a group led by Scott McCaughey and Steve Wynn – and its forthcoming album couldn’t have landed in my inbox at a more shockingly coincidental time. I left The Arizona Republic after five-plus years to take a job with MLB.com as an editorial producer, which I started last … Continue reading The Baseball Project: Past Time
The sixth installment of 110 Percent, a series in which I talk to musicians about sports, features Van Pierszalowski, the former frontman of Port O’Brien who launched his new project, WATERS, with a great debut, Out in the Light, last September on TBD Records. Pierszalowski loves the Dodgers more than anything (even Lil Wayne) and … Continue reading 110 Percent: Van Pierszalowski (WATERS) on the Dodgers, A.J. Ellis and how music ended his baseball career