Superchunk’s new I Hate Music manages to be a gut-punch and a fist-pump all at once. It’s among the year’s most emotionally resonant records, an all-time great indie band finding fresh life by reflecting on death. Although “Staying Home” is about the surest sign your youth is slipping away &#...

Radio.com's Dan Weiss runs down the week's new full-length music releases including John Mayer's Paradise Valley and Dan's album of the week: Superchunk's I Hate Music

Superchunk don’t hate music. We know this. The North Carolina band have been making it for more than two decades, and the music that they’ve made has way too much joy and desperation and impossible need in it for them to have anything but the most fervent love for the stuff. And then there’s the [...]

Superchunk’s emotive punk-rock rager “Me & You & Jackie Mittoo” is a passionate, powerful, catchy-as-hell song about the inadequacy of music, about how it can’t always pull off whatever miracles we need from it. Almost all of the song’s new music video, from Junebug director Phi...

At this point, it’s not exactly a shock to hear a veteran indie band make a really good album; it happens all the time these days. It might, however, be a bit of a shock to hear a veteran indie band make an album this good. Heart-on-sleeve North Carolina punk fixtures Superchunk are set to [...]