John Frazier is a songwriter and musician living in New York City. His band, the 8 Year Olds is Dug Winningham (bass/keyboards), Pinky Weitzman (viola/violin/saw/percussion/vocals) and Veronica Olvera (drums).

The debut record by John Frazier and the 8 Year Olds is due out sometime soon.

The 8 Year Olds have appeared at Pete's Candy Store, Club Midway, Parkside Lounge, Rockwood Music Hall, Lit Lounge, Fat Baby, and Issue Project Room (sharing a bill with Marc Ribot, Lenny Kaye, Kenny Wollesen, Rebecca Moore and Jeffery Lewis). Frazier has also played solo at many venues in the city including taking part in the reading series 'Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose'.

In addition to the 8 Year Olds, he plays plays guitar, bass and trumpet in Not Waving But Drowning, a band started by Pinky with her musical cohort, Mason Brown. Not Waving But Drowning has performed at The Living Room (with Brad Roberts of Crash Test Dummies), Mo Pitkin's, PS 122's Avant-Garde-Arama, Pete's Candy Store, Parkside Lounge, Joe's Pub, and the 2008 School of Rock Festival in Philadelphia, headlined by Devo and The Hold Steady. The group has also been featured on fluffinbrooklyn.com's Fluff Radio.

The debut record by Not Waving But Drowning will be out in September 2008.

Frazier also plays guitar and bass with Rebecca Moore, and has appeared with her on tours of Europe and the U. S. West Coast , as well as at different venues in NYC including The Living Room, Tonic and Town Hall (for the 20th Anniversary of the original Knitting Factory - a benefit for the Stone - featuring Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Lee Renaldo and Mike Doughty among many other New York luminaries).

Frazier's solo record, Outside, was released in late 2005. The song I'm a Genius was an editor's pick on C|Net's download.com, a featured track on drinkatwork.com, solicited for podcasts and played, along with several other of the record's tracks, on theoryradio.org. Mastered by sound artist Douglas Henderson, the 11 original tracks were performed, recorded and mixed by Frazier in his Brooklyn apartment.

Previously, as singer/songwriter/guitar player for the band Works on Blue, he had a publishing contract with Paramount Pictures' Famous Music, made 4 records and toured much of the U.S..