When Frank Black started recording again as Black Francis it was an exciting concept. The Pixies had reunited for a few tours, and though rumours of a possible new album just continue to be rumours, work by Black Francis seemed to be one step closer to that possibility. NonStopErotik, however, feels nothing like the Pixies […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tile this as your desktop background and feel the energy all day.
Mac McCaughan is very prolific. Co-founder / front-man / chief songwriter for Superchunk. Main dude for Portastatic. Co-founder / owner of awesome Merge records. Defender of independent music labels and makers. Visual artist. And more. All of these things have resulted in a constant stream of output over multiple decades. Mac’s passion and talent can hardly be contained in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not going to walk through Superchunk’s album history again as I covered it in my 4-part series starting here, so I will summarize to say that their first 5 albums (plus 2 singles collections) were all manner of rockin’.
Up until 2001 I was luke-warm on Portastatic. I liked a lot of the songs but my heart belonged to the rockin’ and rollin’ of Superchunk and the lo-fi fiddling of Portastatic just did not click with my brain. Had I been aware of the Superchunk drought we were about to embark upon I would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I knew that Mac (and Laura) were responsible for most of the Superchunk album artwork, but I did not realize to what extent Mac was a visual artist until a post on his blog contained this image (among others).
Mac testified before Congress. That in itself sounds super cool and important. Seriously, though, Mac testified on the future of radio, putting forth the importance of non-commercial, independent radio. Here is an excerpt: I also want to urge this committee to take the necessary steps to ensure that our media landscape does not become even more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
File this under great “did that just happen” moments. Portastatic released a trio of great albums in the aught’s: Summer of the Shark (2003) Bright Ideas (2005) Be Still Please (2006) After Summer of the Shark set the standard for this new era of band-based Portastatic I was super excited for Bright Ideas, and it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
