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Portastatic Albums
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) erge*1995 - Slow Note From a Sinking Ship (CD/LP) erge*1997 - The Nature of Sap (CD/LP) erge*2003 - Summer of the Shark (CD) erge*2005 - Bright Ideas (CD) erge*2006 - Be Still Please (CD) erge Compilation albums *2008 - Some Small History (CD) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 capital, Raleigh, make up the corners of the Research Triangle (officially the Raleigh–Durham–Cary combined statistical area), with a total population of 1,998,808. The town was founded in 1793 and is centered on Franklin Street, covering . It contains several districts and buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care are a major part of the economy and town influence. Local artists have created many murals. History The area was the home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel Hill-Durham area. Th ... [...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] |
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Indie Rock Musical Groups From North Carolina
Indie is a short form of "independence" or "independent"; it may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming *Independent video game development, video games created without financial backing from large companies *Indie game, any game (board-based, video, or otherwise) published or produced outside mainstream means; a subset of third party game **Indie Fund, an organization created by several independent game developers to help fund budding indie video game development **Indie Game Jam, an effort to rapidly prototype video game designs and inject new ideas into the game industry **Indie role-playing game, a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means ***Indie RPG Awards, annual, creator-based awards for Indie role-playing game products Music *Independent music, subculture music that is independent of major producers **Indie dance, or alternative dance, a type of dance music rooted in indie rock and indie pop **Indie electronic, a music genre **Indie ... [...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] |
Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate improvisation. He has led or been a member of many groups, has collaborated with many other musicians, and was awarded a 1999 MacArthur Fellowship. He plays tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and baritone saxophone. He was also a member of NRG Ensemble. Biography Boston and Montreal Vandermark grew up in Massachusetts, graduating from Natick High School. His father, Stu Vandermark, was the Boston correspondent for ''Cadence Magazine'' and currently is a noted essayist on jazz, primarily concerned with improvisation. Vandermark led a jazz trio, the Fourth Stream, in Montreal while he was an undergraduate at McGill University. He graduated in 1986 with a deg ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
Who Loves The Sun
''Who Loves the Sun'' is a 2006 Canadian film directed and written by Matt Bissonnette and starring Lukas Haas, Molly Parker, Adam Scott, R.H. Thomson, and Wendy Crewson.Alison Gillmor, "Characters confront the past in cottage country". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', April 5, 2007. Plot Will Morrison (Lukas Haas) and Daniel Bloom ( Adam Scott) were best friends. Daniel was Will's best man at his wedding to Maggie Claire (Molly Parker). Then one day Will disappeared without a word. Five years later, he resurfaces. When Will and Daniel meet again, they go together to the docks to pick up Maggie, who slaps Will the minute she sees him. Apparently, five years ago, Will walked in on Daniel and Maggie having sex, which Maggie said later was a one time thing. His sudden disappearance without any explanation upset her and now she demands an explanation. Will finally apologizes for that. Daniel kisses Maggie and hopes to rekindle things with her. He had kept writing her throughout the ma ... [...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] |
