The Young Fresh Fellows

Heroes of the pre-grunge Seattle rock community, the Young Fresh Fellows are one of the first independent bands from the rainy city to earn a nationwide reputation in the 1980s, and have gained an enthusiastic cult following and the approval of critics. Few bands were more admired by their peers than the Fellows (Peter Buck, Paul Westerberg, and Jeff Tweedy are all avowed fans), and their skewed but tuneful mix of British Invasion-era pop, garage rock, offbeat humor, and pop culture obsessiveness had a long shelf life, with the band still making joyful noise more than four dec...