His first professional experience was filling in for his drum teacher at gigs, where other musicians expressed surprise at seeing a fifteen year-old kid show up to play.

With Young on drums, The Posies performed with Burt Bacharach on his song "What the World Needs Now (Is Love)" that was featured in the 1997 movie, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.

In 2003 the band released Welcome Interstate Managers, which featured the single "Stacy's Mom," a song that reached #3 on the Billboard Top 40 Mainstream Chart and earned a gold record.

Young went on to record three more albums with Fountains of Wayne, 2007’s Traffic and Weather, which reached number 97 on the Billboard Top 200 charts, and 2011’s Sky Full of Holes.

Young has produced for a number of artists, among them Broken Country Girls, Paul Skinner, Silver Relics, Xolie Morra and The Strange Kind, Ramirez Exposure, and Javier Escovedo.

His artist profile for Sabian Cymbals notes his “hard-hitting, aggressive style in tune with today’s modern rock.”[4] Young has recorded or performed with artists such as America, Mandy Moore, Wavves, Ivy, Burt Bacharach, Butterfly Boucher, Max Collins, Jim Carroll, Afghan Whigs, Skyward, the Long Winters, and The Monkees.