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Superchunk “Learned to Surf” video & tour dates this weekend!

July 13, 2011 – 2:43 pm

Superchunk premiered a new video, “Learned to Surf,” this week on Pitchfork.tv. The video is made of concert footage from their last two tours of Brazil: this past spring and 1998′s visit.

Superchunk is in New York for a free show at the House of Vans, and then plays Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival on Sunday! Stop by the Merge Records Booth if you’re at the fest & come on Saturday to see Destroyer!

Jul 14 Brooklyn, NY House of Vans
Jul 17 Chicago, IL Pitchfork Music Festival
Sep 08 Atlanta, GA Buckhead Theatre
Sep 10 Raleigh, NC Hopscotch Festival – City Plaza Stage
Dec 01 London, UK Scala
Dec 02 Minehead, UK All Tomorrow’s Parties curated by Jeff Mangum

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Superchunk announce new tour dates including first London & Atlanta shows in 10 years!

June 13, 2011 – 5:23 pm

Superchunk have announced a few additional shows happening in the second half of this year. These dates include a return to London and Atlanta after a ten year absence as well as their very first appearances at All Tomorrow’s Parties in Minehead, UK and the Hopscotch Festival in Raleigh, NC! A few more dates could still be added so stay tuned to the Merge tour page and follow Superchunk on twitter.

Tickets are on sale for all shows and don’t forget to pick up the Here’s Where the Strings Come In reissue in the Merge store to receive exclusive acoustic demos of songs from the Strings sessions, as well as a free download of The Clambakes Vol. 5: Cup of Clams. Recorded on October 16, 2003, at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC, by an unknown recordist, the live Superchunk performance captured on Cup of Clams was edited and mastered by Mac with additional editing by Brian Paulson.

Also, get all three recent Superchunk reissues – Here’s Where The Strings Come In, No Pocky For Kitty and On The Mouth - bundled together at a special low price! Majesty Shredding is available on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store along with new tour posters from Brazil and Superchunk tote bags.

Superchunk on tour:
July 14 Brooklyn, NY House of Vans w/ OFF! & Lemuria FREE but must RSVP
July 17 Chicago, IL Pitchfork Music Festival – Union Park
Sept 8 Atlanta, GA Buckhead Theatre w/ the Dodos & Times New Viking
Sept 10 Raleigh, NC Hopscotch Music Festival
Dec 1 London, UK Scala w/ Let’s Wrestle
Dec 2 – Dec 4 Minehead, UK All Tomorrow’s Parties curated by Jeff Mangum

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Telekinesis covers Superchunk at Alternative Press!

May 9, 2011 – 6:01 pm

Michael Benjamin Lerner & Cody Votolato recently covered Superchunk’s classic, “Nu Bruises,” and you can now listen at Alternative Press!

Telekinesis is currently on tour with Portugal. The Man. Check them out on the road, and politely request that they play the cover! 12 Desperate Straight Lines is in stores now!

May 09 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture
May 11 Colorado Springs, CO The Black Sheep
May 12 Fort Collins, CO Aggie Theatre
May 13 Denver, CO The Bluebird Theater
May 14 Denver, CO The Bluebird Theater
May 16 Columbia, MO Mojo’s
May 17 Kansas City, MO Record Bar
May 19 Little Rock, AR Revolution
May 20 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
May 21 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s
May 22 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks
May 24 Nashville, TN The End
May 25 Columbus, OH Outland on Liberty
May 26 Cleveland, OH House of Blues – Cambridge Room
May 27 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
May 28 Syracuse, NY The Westcott Theater
May 30 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground Ballroom
May 31 New Haven, CT Cafe Nine
June 03 New York, NY Webster Hall
June 05 Cincinnati, OH MOTR Pub
June 06 Bloomington, IN Russian Recording
June 08 Chicago, IL Schubas Tavern

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Alternative Press celebrates Superchunk’s ‘No Pocky for Kitty’

April 22, 2011 – 11:20 am

Alternative Press talked to Mac about the making of No Pocky for Kitty to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its recording.

But it was No Pocky For Kitty that’s survived as a touchstone for America’s early-’90s, indie-rock zeitgeist, where tough guitar noise cloaked great pop hooks. Recorded by underground icon Steve Albini and released by Matador Records in October 1991 (approximately one month after Nevermind), the album found the band flailing with greater clarity, with pop smarts and plenty of attitude in tow. From the charging opener “Skip Steps 1 & 3” to such career highs as “Seed Toss” and the monstrous “Throwing Things,” the album was a bona fide classic, distilling the needle-in-the-red proclivities of much of the underground at the time (read: Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Albini’s short-lived unit Rapeman) with simply great pop songs.

No Pocky for Kitty is available now in the Merge store remastered and reissued on 180 gm vinyl, CD and digital download. Don’t miss the other new reissues of Superchunk classics now bundled together for a great deal in the Merge store!

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Merge Record Store Day releases now in the Merge store!

April 18, 2011 – 2:46 pm

Record Store Day 2011 has come and gone and we have heard so many great reports of the support given to Independent record stores. We know you all love record stores as much as we do, and we hope you will celebrate “Record Store Day” more than once a year!

WILD FLAG‘s hotly anticipated “Future Crimes” b/w “Glass Tambourine” 7-inch is now available in the Merge digital store and from your favorite digital provider.

The remastered version of Superchunk’s Here’s Where the Strings Come In is available now on LP, CD, and digital download. The LP & CD versions come with bonus demo tracks and a download of The Clambakes Vol. 5: Cup of Clams.

Visit the Merge store for all of these releases as well as our new April releases from Jonny, David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights & Times New Viking.

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New Superchunk video for “Crossed Wires”

April 15, 2011 – 11:36 am

Watch Superchunk’s new video for “Crossed Wires” now at Pitchfork.TV! Beware, this is not your average LOLCat video, but we’re pretty sure this is what really happens when cats stay out all night!

Watch the “Crossed Wires” video directed by Whitey McConnaughy now!

Superchunk are celebrating Record Store Day with two releases: a split 7-inch of Misfits’ covers with Coliseum that is limited to 1,500 copies on 3 different colors of vinyl, and Here’s Where the Strings Come In remastered and reissued on vinyl and CD with a bonus download of acoustic demos & The Clambakes Vol 5: Cup of Clams.

Superchunk’s latest release Majesty Shredding is available on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store.

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Record Store Day is tomorrow!

April 15, 2011 – 11:22 am

Tomorrow – Saturday, April 16 – is Record Store Day!

Don’t forget the Merge titles added to the long list of exclusive releases and other fun events happening at your local independent record stores tomorrow! To find a participating store in your area, visit RecordsStoreDay.com!

WILD FLAG – “Future Crimes” b/w “Glass Tambourine” 7-inch
The hotly anticipated debut release from the new musical partnership between Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, Janet Weiss, and Rebecca Cole will be released exclusively in 7-inch form on Record Store Day! Produced by Spoon’s Britt Daniel, these tracks have already become viral hits through widely circulated videos taken during the band’s recent tour. Maybe this 7-inch will answer the question posed by WILD FLAG: What do you get when you cross a hamburger with a hot dog? Listen to “Glass Tambourine” now at NPR Music!

Superchunk – Here’s Where the Strings Come In CD/LP reissue
Out of print for years, Here’s Where the Strings Come In has been remastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Company from the original 1/2” reels and will be available for the first time on 180-gram vinyl (with download coupon) and on CD newly packaged in LP-style cardboard sleeves. The heavy-duty vinyl jackets were reprinted by Stoughton Printing Co., the same plant that produced them for the original 1995 release. Both formats will also come with bonus downloads of The Clambakes Vol. 5, a live Superchunk recording from 2003, and several exclusive demos of songs that appear on the album.

Caribou – Swim Remixes 12-inch
Originally released as a digital-only companion to Swim, Caribou’s acclaimed 2010 release, the Swim Remixes double A-side 12-inch features “Leave House (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)” b/w “Jamelia (Gold Panda Remix),” as well as a code to download the entire 14-track release. Limited to 1,000 and packaged in a European-style black sleeve, this 12-inch is a must for DJs and Caribou fans alike!

Polvo – Celebrate the New Dark Age 12-inch, autographed by original line-up!
Originally released in 2008, this re-issue of Polvo’s guitar-twisting seven-song EP on limited-edition 180-gram vinyl is a Merge hallmark. It comes complete with great sleeve design by Independent Project Press and a free download coupon. A limited number of this 12-inch EP have been autographed by the original 1994 Polvo line-up exclusively for Record Store Day!

Superchunk / Coliseum – “Horror Business” b/w “Bullet” split 7-inch
Merge Records and Temporary Residence Limited have partnered to co-release “Horror Business” b/w “Bullet,” a limited-edition 7-inch of Misfits covers by Superchunk and Coliseum for Record Store Day. Limited to 1,500 copies and available exclusively in record stores, the 7-inch cover was designed by Coliseum singer/guitarist Ryan Patterson, with a nod to the artwork from the Misfits’ Three Hits From Hell single. The 7-inch will be issued on three different colors of vinyl (500 copies of each): yellow w/ black splatter, magenta w/ black splatter, and standard black.

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Superchunk’s “Here’s Where the Strings Come In” reissue gets “Clambake” bonus treatment just in time for Record Store Day!

April 12, 2011 – 2:19 pm

Superchunk’s Here’s Where the Strings Come In has been out of print for years, and in celebration of Record Store Day, we are reissuing it on CD and LP. Remastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Company from the original 1/2” reels, the album will be available for the first time on 180-gram vinyl (with download coupon) and on CD newly packaged in LP-style cardboard sleeves. The heavy-duty vinyl jackets were reprinted by Stoughton Printing Co., the same plant that produced them for the original 1995 release.

The new and improved version of Here’s Where the Strings Come In will include exclusive acoustic demos of songs from the Strings sessions, as well as a free download of The Clambakes Vol. 5: Cup of Clams. Recorded on October 16, 2003, at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC, by an unknown recordist, this live Superchunk performance was edited and mastered by Mac with additional editing by Brian Paulson.

Mac offers this description of the event: “This show took place as part of the small tour we did in 2003 in support of the Cup of Sand 2-CD singles and rarities compilation. Hence the setlist now appears kind of bizarre as it’s stocked with B-sides we’ve hardly ever played live (“White Noise”) and then-unreleased songs like ‘Knock Knock Knock,’ among more familiar numbers. Sure, there are a few haphazard moves, but it wouldn’t be a clambake otherwise… Hope you enjoy.”

Superchunk – The Clambakes Vol. 5: Cup of Clams
Live at the Cat’s Cradle, October 2003

1. Tiny Bombs
2. The Majestic
3. New Low
4. Watery Hands
5. Becoming a Speck
6. Knock Knock Knock
7. Hello Hawk
8. Cast Iron
9. White Noise
10. Nu Bruises
11. Screw It Up
12. The First Part
13. 100,000 Fireflies
14. Like a Fool
15. Freaks in Charge
16. Package Thief
17. Throwing Things

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Mac & Jim of Superchunk play on WXDU

March 4, 2011 – 3:29 pm

Mac & Jim stop by Ross Grady’s Local Music show at WXDU Durham last Sunday for a live session! If you missed the show, Superchunk’s website now has the session available as a free download.

From Mac:

Ross Grady has bands play sometimes on his Sunday afternoon show on WXDU. We’d never done it before but wanted to, so Jim and I went in and Ross broke all kinds of crazy rules for us! Acoustic only! Interview portion! Only 5 songs! But it went ok, 57s and 58s, check it out….and thanks to Ross and Kelly for the recording.

Tracks:
Crossed Wires
Rope Light
Cursed Mirror
Skip Steps 1 & 3

Don’t miss Superchunk on tour in March!

March 4 Carrboro NC Cat’s Cradle w/ Veelee SOLD OUT!
March 8 New York NY Radio City Music Hall w/ Bright Eyes, WILD FLAG
March 9 New York NY Radio City Music Hall w/ Bright Eyes, WILD FLAG

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WILD FLAG premieres “Glass Tambourine” and Merge announces Record Store Day exclusives!

March 4, 2011 – 12:29 pm

Record Store Day is Saturday, April 16, and we have some special goodies to add to the celebration!

WILD FLAG – “Future Crimes” b/w “Glass Tambourine” 7-inch
The hotly anticipated debut release from the new musical partnership between Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, Janet Weiss and Rebecca Cole will be released exclusively in 7-inch form on Record Store Day! Produced by Spoon’s Britt Daniel, these tracks have already become viral hits through widely circulated videos taken during the band’s recent tour dates. Maybe this 7-inch will answer the question posed by WILD FLAG: What do you get when you cross a hamburger with a hot dog?

Listen to “Glass Tambourine” now at NPR Music!

Superchunk – Here’s Where the Strings Come In CD/LP reissue
Out of print for years, Here’s Where the Strings Come In has been remastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Company from the original 1/2″ reels, and will be available for the first time on 180 gram vinyl (with download coupon), and on CD newly packaged in LP-style cardboard sleeves. The heavy-duty vinyl jackets were re-printed at the original printing plant, Stoughton Printing Co, from the 1995 release. Both formats will also come with a download of exclusive bonus materials from the Superchunk vaults.

Caribou - Swim (Remixes) 12-inch
Originally released as a digital-only companion to Caribou’s acclaimed 2010 release Swim, the Swim (Remixes) double A-side 12-inch features “Leave House (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)” b/w “Jamelia (Gold Panda Remix)” as well as a code to download the entire 14-track release. Limited to 1000 and packaged in a European-style black sleeve, this 12-inch is a must for DJs and Caribou fans alike!

Polvo – Celebrate the New Dark Age 12-inch – Autographed by original line-up!
Originally released in 2008, this re-issue of Polvo’s guitar-twisting seven-song EP on limited-edition 180-gram vinyl is a Merge hallmark. Complete with great sleeve design by Independent Project Press, and a free download coupon. Exclusively for Record Store Day, a limited number of this vinyl EP have been autographed by the original 1994 Polvo line-up!

Superchunk / Coliseum – “Horror Business” b/w “Bullet” split 7-inch
Merge Records and Temporary Residence Limited have partnered to co-release “Horror Business” b/w “Bullet,” a limited-edition 7-inch of Misfits covers from Superchunk and Coliseum for April 16 – Record Store Day. Limited to 1,500 copies and available exclusively in record stores, the 7-inch cover was designed by Coliseum singer/guitarist Ryan Patterson, with a nod to the artwork from the Misfits’ Three Hits From Hell single. The 7-inch will be issued on three different colors of vinyl: Yellow w/ Black Splatter; Magenta w/ Black Splatter; and standard Black (500 copies of each).

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Merge Madness Poster!

February 17, 2011 – 3:50 pm

Click to view the Merge Madness poster in full!

To celebrate “Merge Madness,” local record stores (listed below) will be giving away these collectible 12″ x 18″ screenprinted posters designed by our very own Maggie Fost, with the purchase of any full-length release from Merge.

Visit the Merge store for new albums from Superchunk, Wye Oak, Telekinesis & The Love Language!

Get your limited-edition Merge Madness poster at the following stores beginning Tuesday, Feb 22:
Schoolkids in Raleigh
Offbeat Records in Durham
Bull City Records in Durham
CD Alley in Chapel Hill
All Day Records in Carrboro

Merge Madness shows!
Mar 4 Superchunk @ Cat’s Cradle
Mar 11 WILD FLAG @ Local 506
Mar 12 Wye Oak @ Local 506
Mar 13 Telekinesis & The Love Language @ Local 506 *SOLD OUT*

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Celebrate ‘Merge Madness’ shows in the triangle with a limited-edition poster!

February 17, 2011 – 11:47 am

When it comes to basketball, Merge HQ is a divided house (Duke / Carolina in case you have never heard of The Game of Basketball before), but this March we are all backing five of our favorite bands as they take to the local stage from March 4 through March 13.

Superchunk kicks off the madness on March 4 with their first show at the Cat’s Cradle since before the release of Majesty Shredding. Next, WILD FLAG will play Local 506 on March 11. WILD FLAG is the new “supergroup” featuring Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, Janet Weiss and Rebecca Cole. On March 12, Wye Oak will celebrate the release of their third album Civilian at Local 506. Telekinesis and The Love Language will wrap up Merge Madness on March 13 with an already sold out show at Local 506.

To celebrate, local record stores (listed below) will be giving away these collectible 12″ x 18″ screenprinted posters designed by our very own Maggie Fost, with the purchase of any full-length release from Merge.

Tickets are already gone for the Telekinesis / Love Language show and are going fast for the other three, so don’t waste any time getting your tickets to Superchunk, WILD FLAG & Wye Oak!

Visit the Merge store for new albums from Superchunk, Wye Oak, Telekinesis & The Love Language!

Merge Madness shows!
Mar 4 Superchunk @ Cat’s Cradle
Mar 11 WILD FLAG @ Local 506
Mar 12 Wye Oak @ Local 506
Mar 13 Telekinesis & The Love Language @ Local 506 *SOLD OUT*

Get your limited-edition Merge Madness poster at the following stores beginning Tuesday, Feb 22:
Schoolkids in Raleigh
Offbeat Records in Durham
Bull City Records in Durham
CD Alley in Chapel Hill
All Day Records in Carrboro

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21	Zurich	El Lokal
23	Belgrade	Gun Club
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May
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Superchunk “Learned to Surf” video & tour dates this weekend!

Superchunk announce new tour dates including first London & Atlanta shows in 10 years!

Telekinesis covers Superchunk at Alternative Press!

Alternative Press celebrates Superchunk’s ‘No Pocky for Kitty’

Merge Record Store Day releases now in the Merge store!

New Superchunk video for “Crossed Wires”

Record Store Day is tomorrow!

Superchunk’s “Here’s Where the Strings Come In” reissue gets “Clambake” bonus treatment just in time for Record Store Day!

Mac & Jim of Superchunk play on WXDU

WILD FLAG premieres “Glass Tambourine” and Merge announces Record Store Day exclusives!

Merge Madness Poster!

Celebrate ‘Merge Madness’ shows in the triangle with a limited-edition poster!

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June
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May
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June
07	Porto	Primavera Sound - Date TBA
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27	Calgary, AB	Calgary Folk Music Festival

June
22	Vancouver, BC	The Rio Theatre
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27	Newport, RI	Jane Pickens Theater
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23	Pensacola, FL	DeLuna Festival

May
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23	Madison, WI	Barrymore Theatre
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27	George, WA	Sasquatch Music Festival
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July
05	Hamden, CT	The Space
06	Wellfleet, MA	The Beachcomber
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