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Young People
Biography
A fascinating mix of rock, country, and avant-garde, the trio known as Young People formed in early 2001, when vocalist Katie Eastburn, guitarist Jeff Rosenburg, and drummer Jarrett Silberman began playing together in hopes of forming a country band and ended up forging together traditional American music with the free-form sensibilities of underground rock. The Nashville-born Eastburn, who was a choreographer and producer at San Francisco's Janet Pants Dans Theeatre [sic], met Rosenburg, formerly of the noise rock group Pink and Brown, in the late '90s, and the pair worked on a dance score together.

After spending some time in Berlin in 2000, the duo relocated to Los Angeles and began working on what would become Young People's first album. When Silberman, who had also played with the Uphill Gardeners, joined the group the next winter, the lineup of Young People -- named after a 1940 Shirley Temple movie -- was complete. The band released its self-titled debut first as a CD-R and then, with three additional songs, on 5 Rue Christine in 2002. Young People quickly earned glowing reviews, with their chaotically beautiful music likened to Cat Power, the Dirty Three, and the Velvet Underground.
Selected Discography