The Scene Is Now

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The Scene Is Now
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Background information
Origin New York City
Past members
  • Dick Champ
  • Philip Dray
  • Jeff McGovern
  • Chris Nelson

The Scene is Now is a New York City-based avant-garde no wave jug band from the 1980s. [1] Its founding members were Dick Champ, Philip Dray, Jeff McGovern (also of Mofungo), and Chris Nelson. [2] Influences included the Holy Modal Rounders, The Fugs, the no wave noise music bands DNA and Mars, and the traditional Americana of Bob Wills and Hoagy Carmichael. [1]

Their songs, most of which are compiled on the album The Oily Years, tend to be somewhat rough, lo-fi recordings. Their song Yellow Sarong was later covered by Yo La Tengo for the 1990 album Fakebook . [3]

Thurston Moore called the band's sound "drunken sailor music" as a compliment. [4]

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 https://www.forcedexposure.com/Artists/THE.SCENE.IS.NOW.html The Scene Is Now at Forced Exposure
  2. ↑ Gross, Philip (February 2001). "The Scene Is Now – Philip Dray Interview". Perfect Sound Forever. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  3. ↑ Bracy, Timothy; Bracy, Elizabeth (October 12, 2012). "Yo La Tengo Albums From Worst To Best". Stereogum . Retrieved June 1, 2021.
  4. ↑ Champ, Richard (May 13, 2015). "Remembering a post-Longhorn friendship with Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore". The Current . Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  5. ↑ Margasak, Peter (December 21, 1995). "Too Much Too Soon". Chicago Reader. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  6. 1 2 "TM - New Releases".


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