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When Portishead released Third in 2008, it had been nearly a decade since the release of their previous album. That’s a lifetime in the music industry and all sorts of questions arise when it happens: what will the band sound like now? ; has the band lost its touch? ; will anyone care? It’s a [...]

Really, could there be a better moment for new Superchunk sounds than during the 20th anniversary of the record label they founded? Not hardly. But it’s also been over seven years since the last release of any new music from the band, so anything at this point is welcome. The band’s last two full-length LPs [...]

Even with the most nebulously named of genres, there are still artists that leap to mind as vanguards and progenitors of the sound and image of that style. When it comes to the muddled mess of ‘indie,’ Superchunk is a band whose name is a constant – not only because of their steamroller, power-pop-punk sound, [...]

Arcade Fire and Superchunk just played the Obama rally in North Carolina. Aquarium Drunkard was there. Below, J. Neas speaks with both Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Superchunk/Merge Records founder Mac McCaughan about the show, the campaign, politics and the music. Aquarium Drunkard: I wanted to ask how the Arcade Fire got involved with the [...]