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 ...

The post Jon Wurster Leaves Superchunk: “My Heart Just Isn’t in It Anymore” appeared first on Consequence. Jon Wurster has announced he is stepping away from Superchunk after more than three decades.

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 ...

You can’t talk about the history of American indie rock without mentioning the name Mac McCaughan. As the leader of Superchunk, McCaughan has helped to shepherd one of the most respected and ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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’s latest album, What A Time To Be Alive, is less than a month old, but it’s likely that the politically charged rage that spawned the record will linger for quite a while. The title notably ...

Superchunk have announced a new album, Songs in the Key of Yikes, which will be out August 22 via Merge. (Preorder it on green smoke vinyl.) “It’s always been the case that everyone is going through ...

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 ...

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 ...