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 ...

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 ...

On his latest release, Merge and Superchunk man Mac McCaughan returns to his indie rock roots and explores the orchestral and bossa nova sounds of his soundtrack and previous Portastatic work. Save ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mac McCaughan may be best recognized as the leader of indie pioneer Superchuck (watch live video!), but with his solo project Portastatic, the Chapel Hill, NC, native and Merge Records founder ...