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  The 40 Best Albums of 2010

  December 6, 2010 –  …
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  Matador Records' Biggest Bands Look Back

  November 15, 2010 –  …
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  Matador 21: Best Photos from Las Vegas!

  October 5, 2010 –  …
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  LIVE STREAM: Matador's 21st Birthday Vegas Bash

  October 1, 2010 – Vaunted indie label Matador Records is celebrating its 21st birthday with a massive bash all weekend long at the Palms Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and thanks to MySpace Music, you can watch a live stream featuring many amazing bands right here on this page, beginning Friday, Oct. 1, at 11:30 P.M. …
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  Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week

  September 17, 2010 – Lots of musicians tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold. That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week – then update your TweetDeck! …
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  Superchunk Kick Off Tour for New Album

  September 17, 2010 – About a quarter of the way into Superchunk's 20-song tour-opener Thursday night on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, frontman Mac McCaughan was in a full-throttle lurch, pounding out the kind of tense and nervous post-punk squall on his ugly-ass Gibson Marauder thatlaunched a thousand pop-punk bands. "I bet you've lost sight of everything," he sang during "Let It Go," from the band's eponymous 1990 debut. …
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  Superchunk, 'Majesty Shredding' (Merge)

  August 23, 2010 – Superchunk's first album in nine years begins with the sound of clearing cobwebs and a hazy wave of feedback. Then the opening track snaps into a classic piece of churning punk-pop, complete with a North Carolina–centric lyrical reference -- to "Old 86," the highway into the band's hometown of Chapel Hill. …
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  Words of Wisdom: Superchunk

  August 12, 2010 – "Hold on," says Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster, eyeing a black stretch limo in front of a bougie downtown Chicago hotel. "I need to make sure it's long enough." The Taste of Randolph festival, which Superchunk are headlining tonight, has sent the luxury ride as a courtesy, but for an act entering its third decade as a standard-bearer for indie stringency and modesty, the gesture is as embarrassing as it is flattering. …
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  WATCH: Superchunk Cover the Cure!

  July 27, 2010 – Chicago's AV Club has a new online feature called Undercover, in which 25 of their favorite artists pick a song from a list of classics, then perform it in a small round room. …
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  LISTEN: New Superchunk Song!

  June 16, 2010 – Superchunk helped define indie rock with their high-velocity guitar sound and D.I.Y ethics, culminating when members Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance founded Merge Records in 1989. …
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