Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the last week of 2016, Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan released a solo track, "Happy New Year (Prince Can’t Die Again)," that ...

It's hard to oversell Superchunk's legacy. As founders of Merge Records, band leaders Mac McCaughan and bassist Laura Ballance have accomplished enough to warrant a book, but the label's success often ...

We’ve reached a point in time where bands don’t really go away anymore, and when they do you can be certain they’ll return at some point. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Take Superchunk: The indie ...

If you couldn’t tell, the world is falling apart. California is currently being devoured by wildfires and Europe is flooding every other week. Fortunately for everyone, Superchunk wants to do ...

Superchunk plays the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Thursday, Sept. 16, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $12–$16. The show is presented in conjunction with the Nasher’s new exhibit, The Record: ...

Think about indie band Superchunk's rocking attack, a style that has won them acclaim since their beginnings in 1989. Then watch the frenetic opening scenes of Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1926 avant-garde ...

Superchunk‘s 2001 album Here’s to Shutting Up turns 20 on Saturday, September 18, and to celebrate, the band have shared a documentary, Quest for Sleep, about the subsequent tour for the record. (It ...

"I hate music, what is it worth? / Can't bring anyone back to this earth," the band Superchunk sings. It's the kind of sentiment you'd imagine someone blurting out with bitter spontaneity, but it's ...

Almost everybody likes Superchunk, and they have their share of ardent superfans, but with regard to their estimable catalog, it feels in some ways that they have been underappreciated. Over the ...

Superchunk is set to release their angriest record yet, What a Time to Be Alive, on Feb. 16 via Merge Records. You can watch the lyric video for the title track above. "There’s a lot to talk about ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Superchunk sat both terms of ...

Rick Froberg of Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Pitchfork and Obits died over the weekend at age 55. His girlfriend, Britt, posted on Rick’s Instagram on Sunday, writing that his sudden death was due to ...