Portastatic

	Portastatic Portastatic is an American indie rock band founded in the early 1990s as a solo project of Mac McCaughan, singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Superchunk. The project has since expanded into a full band, sometimes including Superchunk guitarist Jim Wilbur and McCaughan's brother Matthew. Tom Scharpling of the ''18 Wheeler'' fanzine released McCaughan's solo material under the fanzine's own imprint in 1993, the "Starter" 7". Since then, McCaughan has recorded several records as Portastatic, covering genres including indie rock, lo-fi, soundtrack and Brazilian music. The name "Portastatic" is derived from the TASCAM Portastudio home recording device. Discography Official albums 1994 - I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle (CD/LP) erge1995 - Slow Note From a Sinking Ship (CD/LP) erge1997 - The Nature of Sap (CD/LP) erge2003 - Summer of the Shark (CD) erge2005 - Bright Ideas (CD) erge2006 - Be Still Please (CD) erge Compilation albums 2008 - Some Small History ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Autumn Was A Lark ''Autumn Was a Lark'' is an EP by the band Portastatic. It was released on the Merge Records label in 2003. The EP was recorded at Pox Studios in Durham, North Carolina, after the touring version of Portastatic finished the '' Summer of the Shark'' tour. During the tour the band learned several cover songs to "keep hemselveshappy" while playing warm up gigs at a venue called "The Cave" in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Chapel Hill is a town in Orange, Durham and Chatham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its population was 61,960 in the 2020 census, making Chapel Hill the 17th-largest municipality in the state. Chapel Hill, Durham, and the state ca .... At the end of the tour they decided to record three of these cover songs for release on this EP. In addition to the cover songs they also recorded one new original song, "Autumn Got Dark," and a reworked "full band" version of "In The Lines," from ''Summer of the Shark''. In addition to the 5 songs that comprise t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Scrapbook (Portastatic EP) ''Scrapbook EP '' is a double 7-inch single and CD EP by the band Portastatic. It was released on the Merge Records label in 1995. "St. Elmo's Fire" is a Brian Eno cover. "Why Pinch Yourself" and "A Bear That Chokes" were previously released on '' Hello CD of the Month'' EP. Yo La Tengo appears on the EP. Critical reception AllMusic wrote that the EP "is the sort of work that sets a blueprint for things to come ... the record is fantastic in every respect." '' Spin'' called the version of "St. Elmo's Fire" a "stunner ... which sounds like a '70s country-rock tune piped into a truckstop diner in cyberspace." Track listing Double 7": Side A: # "St. Elmo's Fire" Side B: # "Why Pinch Yourself" Side C: # "A Bear That Chokes" Side D: # "My Favourite Sound" CD EP: # "St. Elmo's Fire" # "Why Pinch Yourself" # "A Bear That Chokes" # "My Favourite Sound" Personnel Mac McCaughan Georgia Hubley "St. Elmo's Fire" Ira Kaplan Ira Kaplan (born January 7, 1957) is a co-founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Portastatic Hello EP ''Hello CD of the Month EP: February 1994'' is a CD EP by the band Portastatic. It was released on the Hello label in 1994. The Hello CD of the Month Club (Hello Recording Club) was a subscription-only record company that operated from 1993- 1996 by John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants and Marjorie Galen (at that time the wife of TMBG's manager, Jamie Kitman). Members would receive EPs of original recordings by original artists. "Slant Roof" and "Flat Roof" are both instrumental tracks that would later appear on the Some Small History Bonus Tracks release (bonus download from Merge Records). Both were recorded to 4-track cassette. "A Bear That Chokes" and "Why Pinch Yourself" would later appear on the Scrapbook EP. Both were recorded at Duck Kee Studios by Jerry Kee. Mac McCaughan plays on all tracks. Jon Wurster Jonathan Patrick Wurster (born October 31, 1966) is an American drummer and comedy writer. As a musician, he is best known for his work with Superchunk, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Nature Of Sap ''The Nature of Sap'' is Portastatic's third studio album. It was released on Merge Records on March 11, 1997. Production The album was recorded at Duck Kee Studios in Mebane, North Carolina, during the summer of 1996, except tracks 4, 7-9, and 11, which were recorded on 4-track cassette on "Old NC 86." Matt McCaughan plays drums on many of the album's tracks. Critical reception The ''Tucson Weekly'' wrote that "Portastatic seems to be what happens when an aging punk rocker and his ambitious musical vision 'mature': passivity, depression and terminal boredom." ''Phoenix New Times'' called the album "a multilayered opus of pop precocity." '' Paste'' deemed it the band's most underrated album, calling it "a downcast jazzy pop record that dabbles with electronic minimalism and features some of acMcCaughan’s best song writing." ''SF Weekly ''SF Weekly'' was a free alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California. It was distributed every Thursday, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mac McCaughan Ralph Lee "Mac" McCaughan (; born July 12, 1967) is an American musician and record label owner, based in North Carolina. His main musical projects have been Superchunk since 1989 and Portastatic since the early 1990s. In 1989 he founded the independent record label Merge Records with Superchunk bandmate Laura Ballance. Musical history McCaughan is a founding member of the rock band Superchunk. Formed in 1989, they are one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s. Their energetic, high-velocity style and do-it-yourself ethics is influenced by punk rock. The band released a string of full-length albums and compilations throughout the ‘90s. After releasing their eighth studio album in 2001, the band went into a period of reduced activity. In 2010, the band released a new studio album Majesty Shredding and followed it up in 2013 with their tenth studio album, I Hate Music. He also heads the band Portastatic, which began as a lo-fi side project ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Be Still Please ''Be Still Please'' is an album by Portastatic. It was released on Merge Records on October 10, 2006. "AllMusic.com"/ref> The album was recorded at Pox Studios with Zeno Gill, with additional recording at Room 8 in Carrboro, North Carolina. It was mixed at Overdub Lane in Durham, North Carolina, with John Plymale. Track listing # "Sour Shores" # "Black Buttons" # "I'm in Love (with Arthur Dove Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter.. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinati ...)" # "Sweetness and Light" # "Getting Saved" # "You Blanks" # "Like a Pearl" # "Cheers and Applause" # "Song for a Clock" Notes 2003 albums Portastatic albums Merge Records albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Summer Of The Shark (album) ''Summer of the Shark'' is Portastatic's fourth studio album. It was released on Merge Records on April 8, 2003. The album was recorded at the home of Mac McCaughan in North Carolina except for "Hey Salty" which was recorded by Jerry Kee at Duck Kee Studio in Mebane, North Carolina. The album was mixed at Overdub Lane with John Plymale. McCaughan was the co-founder of Merge Records and also the frontman of the band Superchunk. They had earlier started to record music under the name of Portastatic in the early beginning of 90s. McCaughan wrote the songs on ''Summer of the Shark'' in 2001 while the Superchunk was on the tour in of Here's to Shutting Up, which released mere days after September 11 attacks. It is also said that ''Summer of the Shark'' has the internal combination of an expertly assembled mixtape. The album was recorded at the home studio of Mac McCaughan in North Carolina, his brother Mathew plays drums on half track) except for "Hey Salty" which was recorded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Perfect Little Door ''The Perfect Little Door'' is CD EP by the band Portastatic. It was released on the Merge Records label in 2001. According to the Merge Records website, the EP is "a collaboration between Mac McCaughan (Superchunk, Portastatic, etc) and Ken Vandermark (reed player extraordinaire) plus Tim Mulvenna (multi-faceted percussion)." The five-song EP consists of new versions of three previously recorded Portastatic songs; a new version of Ken Vandermark's song "Late Night Wait Around"; and one entirely new song, "Hey Salty" (which would later appear in a re-worked version of its own on the Portstatic LP '' Summer of the Shark'' (2003). The EP was recorded at Electrical Audio Electrical Audio is a recording facility founded in Chicago, Illinois by musician and recording engineer Steve Albini in 1997. Hundreds of independent music projects have been recorded there. Unlike most producers, Albini refuses to take any royal ... in Chicago, Illinois, while the band was in town for Noise Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bright Ideas ''Bright Ideas'' is Portastatic's fifth studio album. It was released on Merge Records on August 23, 2005 The album was the first Portastatic album that was completely recorded in a modern studio. Previous albums were either partially or completely recorded on a Portastudio The TASCAM Portastudio was the first four-track recorder based on a standard compact audio cassette tape. The term ''portastudio'' is exclusive to TASCAM, though it is generally used to describe all self-contained cassette-based multitrack rec ... 4-track recorder. The album was recorded at Tiny Telephone Studio in San Francisco, California and engineered by Tim Mooney. Track listing # "Bright Ideas" # "Through With People" # "White Wave" # "I Wanna Know Girls" # "Little Fern" # "Truckstop Cassettes" # "The Soft Rewind" # "Registered Ghost" # "Center of the World" # "Full of Stars" Notes {{Authority control 2003 albums Portastatic albums Merge Records albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle ''I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle'' is Portastatic's first studio album. It was released on Merge Records in 1993. It was also released in Japan with additional bonus tracks. These tracks are "Mute 1" which is the same as the Untitled hidden track on the US Merge release, "Replacement Parts" which is mislabeled, and is actually the song "Look Honey, Peaches" (available on the ''A Day in the Park'' compilation) and "Weighted Raft" (also available on the ''Ow!, Quit It'' 2x 7" compilation). According to Mac McCaughan, "Replacement Parts" was an unreleased song recorded for this album, but was not released until the compilation album, ''Some Small History'' (2008). All songs on the album were performed entirely by Mac McCaughan, except "Naked Pilsners" which features Jennifer Walker on bass and V vocals, and "Beer and Chocolate Bars" which features Kaye Woodward on vocals. The album was partially recorded at Duck Kee Studio in Mebane, North Carolina by Jerry Kee, and partially on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	De Mel, De Melão ''De Mel, De Melão'' is CD EP by the band Portastatic. It was released on the Merge Records label in 2000. All five songs on the EP are covers of Brazilian musical artists from the tropicalia and Música popular brasileira movements. It was inspired by a trip Mac McCaughan made to Brazil with his other band Superchunk. Track listing # "Baby" (Caetano Veloso) # "Lamento Sertanejo" (Dominguinhos, Gilberto Gil) # "I Fell In Love One Day" (Arnaldo Baptista) # "Não Identificado" (Caetano Veloso Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (; born 7 August 1942) is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo, which encomp ...) # "Clareana" ( Joyce) References {{DEFAULTSORT:De Mel, De Melao 2000 EPs Merge Records EPs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Some Small History ''Some Small History'' is a collection of "rarities, collecting B-sides, compilation tracks, EPs, fanzine vinyl, and previously unreleased material recorded between 1990 and 2007" from the band Portastatic. It was released on Merge Records on September 9, 2008. The album includes a number of cover songs including songs by Ryan Adams, The Undertones, The Magnetic Fields, Prefab Sprout, Sandy Denny and The Strawbs, Hot Chip, Galaxie 500, American Music Club, and Bob Dylan. The release was a limited edition of 3000 copies. Merge Records also released a bonus download from their website with 11 rare tracks that did not make the album. One additional rare track, "Do You Want to Buy a Bridge?" from the "Spying On the Spys" 7" single was not included because Mac McCaughan found the song to be "embarrassing." Track listing disc one: # "Starter" # "Sandals with White Socks " # "Oh, My Sweet Carolina" (Ryan Adams) # "Lousy Penpal" # "A Cunning Latch (acoustic)" # "Teenage Kicks" (Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]