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 ...

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 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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Superchunk’s 2025 album “Songs in the Key of Yikes” is cleverly titled, but according to frontman Mac McCaughan, its anxious tone wasn’t a deliberate choice. It was inevitable. The album features ...

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 ...

Laura Ballance flops down on a couch in the lobby of Merge Records, the Durham-based record label she helped found in Chapel Hill nearly a quarter-century ago. Nearby, an employee combs through postal ...

"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 ...

When I was fifteen, in 1994, I fell hard for the band Superchunk—or I was falling anyway and they caught me. That was the year their fourth album, “Foolish,” came out, and the year my mom died.

Death is everywhere on I Hate Music, Superchunk’s 10th studio album. Sidling right beside us, doing air-guitar windmills on his scythe, from album opener “Overflows” (where “dead” is the third word ...

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 ...