Superchunk won’t let a little thing like the brittle and cruel nature of human mortality get in the way of a good punk song. On their latest single, “Everybody Dies,” frontman Mac McCaughan pays tribute to the many musicians who have passed away in the last decade and how jarring their loss has been. “I was happy in a world of wishful thinking and outright lies,” he sings, “but I’m beginning to think that everybody dies.” The music recalls Superchunk’s pogo-ready, hyper-enough Nineties rockers, paired with some Clash-like “whoaas.
- 1/11/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Last year, Asheville, North Carolina’s Wednesday put out a collection of cover songs called Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ‘em Up. Not only was it the best lawn-care referencing release by a North Carolina band since Superchunk’s classic 1992 single “Mower,” it also served as a killer distillation of Wednesday’s own unique strain of downhome indie-rock. The tracklist had Nineties shoegaze (Medicine), new shoegaze (Hotline TNT), tragic sad-guy legends (Vic Chesnutt, Chris Bell), a punk-guitar hero (Greg Sage), touchy-feely alt-rock (Smashing Pumpkins), alcoholic alt-country (“Drive-By Truckers’ “Women...
- 4/7/2023
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
“It’s hard to be human/Only death can set you free,” singer/songwriter Eric Bachmann croons on “Human,” the first song on the excellent new album from Archers of Loaf, a group most folks stopped thinking about when Bill Clinton left office. It’s the sound of a middle-aged dad dealing with pandemic mortality, the horrors of post-Trump reality and a realization that the complaints of his youth weren’t all that serious. As he puts it on the shuddering “In the Surface Noise”: “What’s more for...
- 10/20/2022
- by Joe Gross
- Rollingstone.com
“I got a spreadsheet for you!” drummer/co-vocalist Nadirah “Nadi” McGill of Minneapolis’ rock group Gully Boys tells Rolling Stone. The indie band is in Los Angeles, in the middle of a 24-date tour that includes stops at Austin’s South by Southwest festival and Boise’s Treefort Music Fest. While McGill pulls up the group’s touring budget, bassist Natalie Klemond chimes in on some of the challenges they’ve faced on the road: “We were at first trying to do 20 per person a day for food. But then you’re in Austin,...
- 4/15/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Kill Rock Stars has continued its 30th-anniversary celebration by releasing Mike Watt and the Black Gang’s cover of Bikini Kill’s “Rebel Girl.”
Recorded live on October 16th, 1998 at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan, New York, the track features Watt taking on Kathleen Hanna’s powerhouse vocals and energy. Members of the Black Gang — Wilco’s Nels Cline and Bob Lee — soundman Steve Reed all contribute backing vocals.
“Me and K [Kira Roessler] have a two bass-only band called Dos and we opened up for Bikini Kill once and that’s...
Recorded live on October 16th, 1998 at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan, New York, the track features Watt taking on Kathleen Hanna’s powerhouse vocals and energy. Members of the Black Gang — Wilco’s Nels Cline and Bob Lee — soundman Steve Reed all contribute backing vocals.
“Me and K [Kira Roessler] have a two bass-only band called Dos and we opened up for Bikini Kill once and that’s...
- 1/19/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Merge Records has released a new covers compilation, Going to Georgia, to benefit various organizations fighting for voting rights and encouraging turnout ahead of the two crucial Georgia Senate runoff elections.
The compilation will cost $10 and will be available from midnight, December 4th, through January 5th, exclusively via Bandcamp. All proceeds will go to Mijente and Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight.
The compilation features various Merge artists covering songs by famous Georgia acts. The label previewed the compilation with Titus Andronicus’ charmingly ramshackle indie rock rendition of the Indigo Girls’ 1989 hit,...
The compilation will cost $10 and will be available from midnight, December 4th, through January 5th, exclusively via Bandcamp. All proceeds will go to Mijente and Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight.
The compilation features various Merge artists covering songs by famous Georgia acts. The label previewed the compilation with Titus Andronicus’ charmingly ramshackle indie rock rendition of the Indigo Girls’ 1989 hit,...
- 12/3/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Superchunk have dropped their new Halloween single “There’s a Ghost,” the North Carolina alt-rockers’ first new music since their 2018 LP What a Time to Be Alive.
“I didn’t write a song for probably the first six months of the lockdown,” Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan said in a statement on the track, a haunted house tale for the Covid-19 era. “This is one of the first and it came just in time for Halloween. Jim [Wilbur, guitarist] and Jon [Wurster, drummer] came over with their masks on, and Laura [Ballance] tracked her bass in her bass-ment.
“I didn’t write a song for probably the first six months of the lockdown,” Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan said in a statement on the track, a haunted house tale for the Covid-19 era. “This is one of the first and it came just in time for Halloween. Jim [Wilbur, guitarist] and Jon [Wurster, drummer] came over with their masks on, and Laura [Ballance] tracked her bass in her bass-ment.
- 10/30/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier this month, Bob Mould told me an anecdote about how people view his live shows. “Somebody once tweeted something like, ‘Oh, my God. I’m at a Bob Mould show, and it seems like it’s been an hour and a half of the same song. It’s incredible,'” he said. “At first, I sort of took offense to it, and then I realized, no, that’s actually like, ‘Oh, cool.'”
Few artists have upheld (or at least revisited) a musical point of view quite like Mould.
Few artists have upheld (or at least revisited) a musical point of view quite like Mould.
- 2/22/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
North Carolina punk stalwarts Superchunk teamed with Fucked Up singer Damian Abraham for a new song, “Our Work Is Done.” The track was released via Merge Records as a limited edition seven-inch single with proceeds benefitting Bill McKibben’s climate change organization, 350.org. The b-side boasts a cover of Klaus Nomi’s “Total Eclipse.”
“Our Work Is Done” is a blistering ripper packed with angular guitar riffs that spark around a rush of drums and Mac McCaughan’s urgent vocals. “Time flies when you’re on the run,” McCaughan belts...
“Our Work Is Done” is a blistering ripper packed with angular guitar riffs that spark around a rush of drums and Mac McCaughan’s urgent vocals. “Time flies when you’re on the run,” McCaughan belts...
- 11/14/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Voters will have the opportunity to gain free entry, and in some cases a free non-alcoholic drink, to concerts on election day, Billboard reports. Shows by Drive-By Truckers, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Superchunk and many others who are performing nationwide on November 6th are participating in the #IVoted initiative.
Artist manager Emily White teamed with Madison House’s Mike Luba and Wilco’s Pat Sansone to create #IVoted, whose mission is to increase voter turnout now and into the future.
Several artists are participating in the campaign. In...
Artist manager Emily White teamed with Madison House’s Mike Luba and Wilco’s Pat Sansone to create #IVoted, whose mission is to increase voter turnout now and into the future.
Several artists are participating in the campaign. In...
- 10/25/2018
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
For a good chunk of the 1990s, there wasn't a more exciting band in any land than the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. When this New York trio, featuring Spencer, guitarist Judah Bauer, and drummer Russell Simins, burst onto the scene 20-odd years ago, they made a powerful impact, combining the raw irreverence of punk with the swing and swagger of funk, soul music and hip-hop, all the while re-inventing the blues for a young generation of culture-gobbling misfits.
After their 2004 record, "Damage," the Blues Explosion were on the road for a bit and then stopped functioning for a few years.
"I was the guy that proposed it because I wanted to work on Heavy Trash, which began before the Blues Explosion knocked off work in 2005," Spencer says, over the phone from NYC. In 2004, he began collaborating with Montreal-bred singer/guitarist Matt Verta-Ray on a lively new rockabilly band.
"I really...
After their 2004 record, "Damage," the Blues Explosion were on the road for a bit and then stopped functioning for a few years.
"I was the guy that proposed it because I wanted to work on Heavy Trash, which began before the Blues Explosion knocked off work in 2005," Spencer says, over the phone from NYC. In 2004, he began collaborating with Montreal-bred singer/guitarist Matt Verta-Ray on a lively new rockabilly band.
"I really...
- 7/10/2013
- by HuffPost Canada Music
- Huffington Post
Given that he's one of the more diverse and prolific filmmakers out there, it's been a disappointingly long four years without a new movie from Richard Linklater ("Me and Orson Welles" premiered at Tiff in 2008). Fortunately, the Austin, Texas-based filmmaker is back with "Bernie," a dark comedy which reunites him with two of his most memorable leads, Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey, that has picked up strong reviews and, opening in limited release last Friday, has been performing surprisingly well at the box office.
With "Bernie" expanding wider this weekend (read our review), it seemed like the perfect time to look over Linklater's diverse and eclectic career. He'd already made his mark by founding the Austin Film Society in 1985 (which has gone on to be the center of the industy in the Texas city), but since his debut with an ultra-low-budget student film in 1988, Linklater's tackled everything from romance to...
With "Bernie" expanding wider this weekend (read our review), it seemed like the perfect time to look over Linklater's diverse and eclectic career. He'd already made his mark by founding the Austin Film Society in 1985 (which has gone on to be the center of the industy in the Texas city), but since his debut with an ultra-low-budget student film in 1988, Linklater's tackled everything from romance to...
- 5/2/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
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