Anti-folk oddballs from NYC's SideWalk Cafe scene who turned homemade absurdist songwriting into a cult classic and a Juno soundtrack moment.
MOODS · playful · lo-fi · absurdist · homemade · offbeat · nostalgic · quirky · raw · charming · irreverent
BIOGRAPHY
The Moldy Peaches formed in 1994 when Adam Green and Kimya Dawson met at an open-mike night in Mount Kisco, New York, and started writing songs together. They became fixtures of the New York City anti-folk scene, performing at the SideWalk Cafe before initially splitting up.
The band reformed in August 2000 with Chris Barron, Brian Piltin, and Strictly Beats joining Green and Dawson. Their self-titled debut, released on Rough Trade on September 11, 2001, followed the buzz-generating single "Who's Got the Crack." They toured with the Strokes and Tenacious D before going on hiatus by 2004, later reuniting briefly in 2007 and again for European shows in 2023.
WHY THEY'RE COOL
The Moldy Peaches built a reputation on scrappy, funny, deliberately unpolished songs that stood apart from the indie pack of the early 2000s. Their debut split critics sharply: NME's Kitty Empire called it "extremely amusing and often brilliant," and Robert Christgau ranked it second on his year-end list, while other critics dismissed it as amateurish or worse. That divisiveness became part of their legend, and the later placement of "Anyone Else but You" in the film Juno introduced their homespun anti-folk sound to a much wider audience years after the band's initial run.
GEORGE'S PLAYS
First time on the station.
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