History may be written by the victors, but the fact that it’s written at all is testimony to our passion for putting frames around things. Perhaps when you string enough frames together, you get the ...

It's shaping up to be a year filled with highlights for Mac McCaughan. Not only did the prodigious North Carolina musician welcome a second child into his family this year, but he's also seeing… By ...

Mac McCaughan has hit a few bum notes in his day, and he’s usually the first one to point them out in his albums’ self-deprecating liner notes. Bum notes, however, are minor. They’d hardly be worth a ...

Putting Chapel Hill, NC on the indie rock map, Mac McCaughan is renowned for being the lead voice in one of the best and perhaps most underrated punk rock pop bands of the last 20 years, Superchunk, ...

Download Portastatic’s “Silence by the Lakeside” (9.8 MB) or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Having your record remixed seems almost like an ...

Portastatic, the long-running side project of Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan, will return on Oct. 10 with its next Merge album, "Be Still Please." By Billboard Staff Portastatic, the long-running ...

There’s a great line on Be Still Please, the latest Portastatic record. In what may be the most barbed lyrical diatribe of last year, Mac McCaughan sings, “All my songs used to end the same ...

Based out of the fertile rock scene of Chapel Hill, N.C., guitar-pop combo Portastatic make no delay as they travel back to Charleston for another show at the Village Tavern in support of their ninth ...

Mac McCaughan seems to have reached that magical point in his career where a guy can just say the hell with it–his main bands, Superchunk and Portastatic, have pretty much topped out in popularity, ...

Superchunk founder/Merge founder/Portastatic founder/book blogger/presidential hopeful Mac McCaughan is a man containing multitudes. If the aforementioned modifiers weren't enough to make you wonder ...

INDIE-ROCK The idea of melding the slack-pop of Superchunk front man Mac McCaughan’s Portastatic side project with the alt-jazz improvisations of saxophonist Ken Vandermark and percussionist Tim ...

As the driving force behind Portastatic, Mac McCaughan mixes everything from straightforward pop to lush string arrangements to masterful reproductions of Brazilian folk. Also known as lead singer of ...