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Superchunk
Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, consisting of singer-guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s. Their energetic, high-velocity style and do-it-yourself ethic is influenced by punk rock. Members McCaughan and Ballance founded the successful independent record label Merge Records in 1989 as a way to release music from Superchunk and music created by friends, which has expanded to include artists from around the world and records reaching the top of the ''Billboard'' music charts. Superchunk released a string of full-length albums and compilations throughout the 1990s. 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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Wilbur
Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, consisting of singer-guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s. Their energetic, high-velocity style and do-it-yourself ethic is influenced by punk rock. Members McCaughan and Ballance founded the successful independent record label Merge Records in 1989 as a way to release music from Superchunk and music created by friends, which has expanded to include artists from around the world and records reaching the top of the ''Billboard'' music charts. Superchunk released a string of full-length albums and compilations throughout the 1990s. 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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Loneliness
''Wild Loneliness'' is the twelfth studio album by the American indie rock band Superchunk. It was released on February 25, 2022, by Merge Records. Ahead of the album release, the band put out three singles: "Endless Summer," "This Night," and "On the Floor." The album was recorded under COVID lockdown in the band's home state of North Carolina. It was mixed by Wally Gagel, who also mixed the band's fifth album, ''Here's Where the Strings Come In'' (1995). Guest artists featuring on the record include Sharon Van Etten, Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley of Teenage Fanclub, Mike Mills of R.E.M., Andy Stack of Wye Oak, and Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura. Track listing Personnel * Mac McCaughan – vocals, guitar * Laura Ballance – bass * Jim Wilbur – guitar * Jon Wurster – drums Reception ''Wild Loneliness'' received positive reviews from critics. Writing in Pitchfork, Steve Kandell summarized the album as a “moodier” and “more subdued” work by the band tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majesty Shredding
''Majesty Shredding'' is the ninth studio album by American indie rock band Superchunk. It was released on September 14, 2010 on Merge Records. It is the group's first studio album since 2001's '' Here's to Shutting Up''. Critical reception On Metacritic ''Majesty Shredding'' has a score of 83 out of 100 based on 25 critics reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". ''Majesty Shredding'' was ranked number 25 on ''Rolling Stone''s list of the 30 Best Albums of 2010. Marc Hawthorne of ''The A.V. Club'' felt that the album was among the best work of the band's career, stating that "''Majesty Shredding'' lives up to its name and doesn’t waste much time catching its breath, and along the way Superchunk delivers something that used to be expected of the band: an album on which every song sounds as inspired as the next one." Jon Dolan of ''Rolling Stone'' wrote: "No youngsters this side of Arcade Fire articulate ambivalence with such skill or heart. Few even try." Jessica Hopper of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What A Time To Be Alive (Superchunk Album)
''What a Time to Be Alive'' is the eleventh studio album by the American indie rock band Superchunk. It was released in February 2018 by Merge Records. Track listing Personnel * Mac McCaughan - vocals, guitar, cover art * Laura Ballance - bass, cover art * Jim Wilbur - guitar * Jon Wurster - drums * Sabrina Ellis - vocals on “Break the Glass” * Stephin Merritt - vocals on “Erasure” * Katie Crutchfield - vocals on “Erasure” * David Bazan - vocals on “Cloud of Hate” * Skylar Gudasz - vocals on “Black Thread” * Beau Sorenson Beau Sorenson (born 1980) is an American record producer and engineer. He has worked with Death Cab For Cutie, Bob Mould, Superchunk, Sparklehorse, Jars of Clay, Yellow Ostrich, The Lonely Forest, Field Report, Someone Still Loves You Boris Ye ... - recording * Matthew Barnhart - mastering * Lissa Gotwals - photography Charts References {{Authority control 2018 albums Superchunk albums Merge Records albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Hate Music (album)
''I Hate Music'' is the tenth studio album by American indie rock band Superchunk, released on August 20, 2013, on Merge Records. Critical reception ''I Hate Music'' garnered generally positive reception from music critics. At ''Rolling Stone'', Will Hermes noted how "The title is bullshit – the kind people spit when dodging pain." Hermes described the album as "rock vets fighting demons with delicious noise and sugar-crusted hooks as darkness falls." At ''Alternative Press'', Jeff Rosenstock Jeffrey Ernest Rosenstock (born September 7, 1982) is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter from Long Island, New York. He is known for his former bands Bomb the Music Industry! and The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, as well ... alluded to how the album "veers into darker territory than usual", writing that "there is something to be said about a band who have put out 10 records and ''none'' of them are bad." In addition, Rosenstock felt that the release contains "an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Pocky For Kitty
''No Pocky for Kitty'' is the second studio album by American indie rock band Superchunk, released in 1991. Pocky is a popular Japanese snack food. Production The album was recorded April 21–23, 1991, at the Chicago Recording Company by Steve Albini. It was released on Matador Records in 1991, and reissued by Merge Records in 1999. Albini is not credited in the liner notes, which read "Produced with eyes closed by Laura, who sat in the right chair." The reference is to Laura Ballance, the group's bassist. Critical reception ''Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...'' praised the album's "indelible hooks" and Mac McCaughan’s "opaque yet curiously coercive lyric expression." '' Paste'' wrote that the album "captures Superchunk at the ideal cross-section ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superchunk (album)
''Superchunk'' is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Superchunk. It was recorded January 18–19, 1990, at Duck Kee Studios in Raleigh, North Carolina, and released on Matador Records in 1990. " Slack Motherfucker" was named the 19th best single of the 1990s by ''Spin'', and the 81st best song of the 1990s by ''Pitchfork A pitchfork (also a hay fork) is an agricultural tool with a long handle and two to five tines used to lift and pitch or throw loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves. The term is also applied colloquially, but inaccurately, to th ...''. On August 25, 2017, ''Superchunk'' was re-released on vinyl. Track listing # "Sick to Move" – 3:14 # "My Noise" – 2:25 # "Let It Go" – 2:53 # "Swinging" – 2:11 # "Slow" – 5:08 # " Slack Motherfucker" – 2:52 # "Binding" – 3:03 # "Down the Hall" – 2:41 # "Half a Life" – 3:42 # "Not Tomorrow" – 4:39 B-sides include "What Do I", "Train From Kansas City", "Night Creatures" and " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foolish (album)
''Foolish'' is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Superchunk. It was recorded November 30 through December 2, 1993, at Pachyderm Studios, by Brian Paulson and mixed by the band and Paulson at Steve Albini's home studio. The album was released by Merge Records in 1994. The cover art is credited to the band's bassist, Laura Ballance. Ballance has stated that although the painting has generated much speculation into its deeper meaning, it was simply an "unpracticed" attempt to hark back to an American Music Club album cover. She was the only model available to her, and the dead rabbit was added after she had watched the Michael Moore film ''Pets or Meat''. ''Foolish'' was completed shortly after Ballance and the band's guitarist and lead singer, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, the Mountain Goats, and Bob Mould. He is also known for appearing on '' The Best Show'' with Tom Scharpling. Wurster has recorded and performed live with Jay Farrar, Ben Gibbard, Robert Pollard, Katy Perry, The New Pornographers, Rocket from the Crypt, Alejandro Escovedo, and R.E.M. Music career Early music career Wurster grew up in the southeastern Pennsylvania town of Harleysville and began playing drums at the age of ten, taking lessons for a few years before playing in local bands. In 1984 Wurster joined the psychedelic punk band Psychotic Norman. The band shared bills with the Minutemen, Die Kreuzen, and Suicidal Tendencies and recorded a three-song 7" single before Wurster left in January 1986 to play with rock band the Right Profile. Months after Wurster's arrival, the Right Profile was signed by Clive Davis to Arista Re ... [...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] |
Laura Ballance
Laura Jane Ballance (born February 22, 1968) is the bassist in the rock band Superchunk (also contributing occasional backing vocals) and co-founder of Merge Records along with Mac McCaughan. In 2013 she announced that she would no longer be touring with the band due to her worsening hyperacusis. Musical history Despite her hyperacusis and announcement that she will no longer be touring with the band, she has remained in Superchunk since 1989. Their latest album is ''Wild Loneliness'', released in February 2022. Merge Records In 1989, Ballance alongside her bandmate Mac McCaughan, founded Merge Records for releases from Superchunk and similar artists. Ballance has also contributed to the book ''Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records'' (2009) with Mac McCaughan and John Cook. Personal life Ballance has described herself as an introvert as a child, who found punk music as a teenager through a music video by Adam and the Ants. Ballance lives in Durham, North Carolina Durh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Mouth
''On the Mouth'' is the third studio album by American indie rock band Superchunk. The album was recorded September 14–20, 1992, at West Beach Studios, engineered by Donnell Cameron, and produced by John Reis and Superchunk. It was released by Matador Records in 1993. ''On the Mouth'' marked the debut of drummer Jon Wurster, who replaced Chuck "Chunk" Garrison. The band also has a song called "On the Mouth," but it is not on this album. It first appeared as b-side for the single version of "Mower." American alternative rock band Jimmy Eat World covered "Precision Auto" for its 2010 album '' Invented''. Fucked Up and Tom Scharpling, of Scharpling and Wurster fame, covered "Precision Auto" at the Matador at 21 festival in Las Vegas Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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