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Merge Records turned 30 this year, and to celebrate, the North Carolina-based label is throwing a festival called MRG30. Merge started out as a way for Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance to release music from their band Superchunk, so of course Superchunk is on the lineup alongside other Merge artists like the Mountain Goats, Destroyer, and Wye Oak. And yesterday, a few of those artists came together. Superchunk played at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, North Carolina last night as part of the MRG30 festival. And after running through a career-spanning set of 15 songs, they brought Damian Abraham of Fucked Up and Allison Crutchfield of Swearin’ out to the stage to help perform “Our Work Is Done,” “Precision Auto,” “Slack Motherfucker” for the encore. Watch below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?veG70psYn7v4 https://twitter.com/degi14/status/1154770441225035777 View this post on Instagram Slack Motherfucker with Damian from Fucked Up and Allison from Swearin’ to close out night 2 of @mergerecords #mrg30 A post shared by Jeff (@jdginstagramz) on Jul 25, 2019 at 10:48pm PDT View this post on Instagram Super solid first night of tour at merge 30 fest 🙌🏼 really amazing night and feeling in the air A post shared by kyle gilbride (@kylekillbride) on Jul 26, 2019 at 2:02pm PDT View this post on Instagram My one true love - Superchunk. First time I saw these guys was about 23 years ago. Might be in the triple digits by now. #mrg30 A post shared by Sam Kramer (@kramsamer) on Jul 25, 2019 at 11:53pm PDT View this post on Instagram If you missed this, you also missed Her Royal Fisticuffs, Cool, Sick to Move, On the Mouth (not sure I've ever heard that live?), Song for Marion Brown, plus the more usual but still amazing suspects. Then an encore of Our Work is Done, Precision Auto, and Slack Motherf#_&+ with @leftfordamian and @allisoncrutchfield. Sweaty and tired... And even knocked around a little bit by us olds reliving our glory days. But I'm ready for Day Three. #mrg30 A post shared by Elizabeth Stockton (@ohpetrel) on Jul 25, 2019 at 11:02pm PDT View this post on Instagram @macsuperchunk @allisoncrutchfield @jonwurster and @leftfordamian about to bring the house down at #mrg30 #superchunk #swearin #fuckedup @swearinband A post shared by Ryan Brown (@ryanbrown76) on Jul 25, 2019 at 10:45pm PDT This article originally appeared on Stereogum.

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