Biography

Scott Lewis McCaughey is an American singer and songwriter and the leader of the Seattle and Portland-based bands The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5. He is best known as an auxiliary member of the American rock band R. E. M. from 1994 until the band's break-up in 2011, contributing to the studio albums, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Up, Reveal, Around the Sun, Accelerate and Collapse into Now.