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  Superchunk Cover Spoon & More Live

  October 28, 2009 – DIY icons Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance of Superchunk dropped by New York City's Housing Works Bookstore Friday for a reading from Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label that Got Big and Stayed Small, a new oral history about their revered 20-year-old label. And Mac surprised the packed, 250-person crowd with a special treat: a short set of acoustic tunes -- including covers of Merge artists Spoon and Magnetic Fields …
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  XX Merge, Night 2: Indie Rock Gets Its Degree

  July 24, 2009 – There's no doubt about it: Technology has sapped much of the mystery out of seeing live rock'n'roll. A venue's website posts the set times, so you can skip the opening bands. Your friends will text you when the headliner is setting up. …
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  Conor Oberst, Spoon to Play Merge's 20th Anniversary Fest

  April 3, 2009 – Superchunk members Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance's North Carolina label Merge Records is celebrating 20 years of kicking out the jams with a five-day bash in their home state -- and they've invited some of their best artists to join the party, including Spoon, M. …
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  Free Download: Superchunk Channel 'Aqua Teen'

  March 11, 2009 – Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan has written about lots of things in his 20 years in music. But new song "Misfits & Mistakes" marks a first: He wrote the tune from the point of view of Meatwad, a character in Cartoon Network series Aqua Teen Hunger Force! McCaughan originally penned the track in his Chapel Hill, NC, home for 2007's feature film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. …
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  New Portastatic Stream: "Trajectory"

  September 11, 2008 – Mac McCaughan may be best recognized as the leader of indie pioneer Superchuck (watch live video!), but with his solo project Portastatic, the Chapel Hill, NC, native and Merge Records founder explores territory outside the fuzzy, loose jangle most have come to know from that band. And though Some Small History, a 44-track collection of B-sides, rarities, demos, and unreleased songs from across Portastatic's 16-year career (out Sept. …
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  Superchunk Live at Bumbershoot

  September 3, 2008 – The sad truth: Not all youngsters gallivanting under Seattle's Space Needle Monday turned out to heed SPIN deputy editor Steve Kandell's advice and catch indie rock luminaries Superchunk's rare live set in Memorial Stadium. But despite the not-so-thick crowd, frontman Mac McCaughan and crew's tangled indie-pop hooked many a fervent, fist pumping, and -- at times -- moshing 30-something clad in weathered rock tees. …
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  Four Reasons Why Superchunk Still Matters

  August 29, 2008 – AND THE FOUR REASONS ARE: Every band you like owes them a debt. …
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  Complete Bumbershoot '08 Lineup Unveiled

  July 14, 2008 – Officials for the 2008 Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival have completed the festival's lineup, adding Death Cab For Cutie, Tapes 'n Tapes, Superchunk, Two Gallants, and the Weakerthans, among others, to a bill featuring Beck, the recently reunited Stone Temple Pilots, and Neko Case. The festival convenes at Seattle, WA's Seattle Center from Aug. 30-Sept. …
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