When we last heard from Superchunk back in 2018, they put out What a Time to Be Alive, perhaps the toughest, angriest, most ferocious record they’d ever made. Emboldened by the protest movements and ...

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 ...

When Salon tells Superchunk vocalist and guitarist Mac McCaughan that the band’s forthcoming record, “What A Time To Be Alive,” was a “comfort” to listen to, he immediately bursts out laughing. “I don ...

Every once in a while, North Carolina indie OGs Superchunk like to dress up as another band for Halloween. In 2020, for instance, Superchunk went out as goth greats the Sisters Of Mercy, or at least ...

Superchunk was formed in Chapel Hill, N.C.’s noisy, eclectic indie-rock scene in the early 1990s, and throughout that decade the fuzzy pop quartet was everyone’s prediction for the band that would ...

The indie band’s 12th album uses a moodier, more subdued palette to get to the heart of some fun topics like fear and ambivalence in the face of environmental and societal ruin. Save this story Save ...

Superchunk performs an early radio hit for the band, “Hyper Enough.” Superchunk performs an early radio hit for the band, “Hyper Enough.” The song explores the difficulties of connecting with a music ...

The indie rock veterans return with their second album since their almost decade-long layoff. While the punchy hooks and uptempo shouters are still here, the album as a whole is a shade darker, ...