Formed in 1994 in the storm-torn suburbia of Raleigh, NC, the Feebs (aka Jim O'Shaughnessy) make wistful indie-pop in the bedroom and the basement. With a battered & bruised 8-track and a reverential admiration of sound pioneers Brian Wilson and Big Star, the Feebs' articulate love of music results in brilliant flashes of pop-song genius. Harmonies abound amid the clang and the clatter of guitars, drums, keyboards, and bags and boxes of noisemakers strewn across the basement floor.The Feebs sprang from the mysterious cellar of Long Island, NY's seminal late-80s basement legends, The Martyrs, a small, unpopular band whose jangly folk-rock pop inspired at least four other stay-at-home bands now scattered throughout New York and Oregon. The Feebs, now recording in Portland, Oregon, have emerged as both an innovator and purveyor of american rock.
The Feebs have recorded 6 lps, 2 eps, and 1 anthology, not to mention all the production credits.
Of the Feebs' nine collections of recordings, only one has been officially released. This is 2003's I'm Afraid of Life, the anthology culled from five of the Feebs albums.
Demo Universe praised the Feebs' "Tomorrow is Another Day to Fuck Up Another Way" as "touchingly fatalistic."
Journalist Brian Kunath of Qner Industries describes Jim's lyrics as being "at once elegaic and celebratory of life," and the anthology as a whole as "the best way to spend eight bucks outside of Bangkok."
Jim is also a member of Heirs to the McQueen Fortune with his two brothers.
