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.