Reid Paley

Reid Paley (born in Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been performing and recording both solo and with his trio since the mid 1990s. In the 1980s, Paley was singer, front man, and writer for post-punk blues-band-from-hell The Five, which he founded in Pittsburgh, PA. In the first year of the band’s existence The Five released limited pressings of a vinyl single Napalm Beach b/w Excite Me and an EP Act of Contrition The band later moved to Boston and spent several years headlining clubs and playing to enthusiastic crowds before breaking up in the late 1980s. A vinyl LP entitled The Five was released posthumously. Returning to Brooklyn in the early 1990s, Paley continued writing and began...