The Davenports

"Klass writes melodic confections that seep into your psyche and stay…and does so with wit and intelligence" (PopMatters).

Brooklyn’s Scott Klass makes music that’s “steeped in pop/rock—Weezer meets Ben Folds…leading you to sing along to songs you’re hearing for the first time while stories unfold of relationships gone awry….” (The Deli). He puts it out with a rotating cast of great musicians—the core of which is now Erik Philbrook, Rob Draghi and Cheri Leone—and calls it The Davenports. The cast includes regular appearances by Claudia Chopek (Springsteen, Moby), Garo Yellin (The Ordinaires, Pere Ubu), Danny Weinkauf, Dan Miller (They Might Be Giants) and many more.

After a string of pop projects, including playing alongside Chris Collingwood in the Fountains of Wayne frontman’s previous band, Klass conceived of The Davenports in 2000. Well-known for “Five Steps,” the theme song to A&E’s Emmy-nominated Intervention, he’s licensed numerous songs to TV in addition to putting out three critically acclaimed records—Speaking of The Davenports, Hi-tech Lowlife and Why the Great Gallop, which set tales of love, lust, mean, money-dangling mothers, superstitious panic attacks and the like to a torrent of guitar-driven, melodic rock.

The Davenports recently contributed renditions of Wham! and Randy Van Warmer songs to the compilation series' "Drink a Toast to Innocence" (covering the '70's) and "Here Comes the Reign Again" (covering the '80s)--records which also featured Mike Viola, Freedy Johnston, Rachel Yamagata and Chris Collingwood.

The next Davenports record, featuring a duet with Shirley Simms of The Magnetic Fields and a collaboration with David Myhr, is due out late 2016.

Simultaneously, Klass continues to play with Chris Collingwood and Philip Price (Winterpills) in Look Park, who recently opened for Squeeze on their west coast tour and are playing select shows on the east coast through fall '16.