Longstanding Chapel Hill indie rock superheroes Superchunk have a new album Majesty Shredding out via Merge in September. The resurgent group participated in the AV Club’s ongoing “Undercover” series, which also birthed Frightened Rabbit’s Lemonheads, and emerge sounding very much like Superchunk doing the...

Superchunk perform as 'surprise guests'

After Heretic Pride and the Satanic Messiah EP, John Darnielle's getting more Godly with the forthcoming The Life Of The World To Come, which features a 12-song tracklist made entirely of Bible verses. He's joined on the collection by Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster, longtime pal Peter Hughes on bass, and Owen Pallett concocting string arrangemen...

By Amrit Singh & Brandon StosuyThe weather's getting hotter by the day, but we refuse to cave: We arrived at the grounds when the sun was at its peak. Amrit's given to wearing shorts at this point, but Brandon sticks by his Levi's because pale white legs are no good in the Southern California desert, a land where men think nothing of attendi...

For those who worried that his marriage to straight-and-narrow-seeming Mandy Moore would turn Ryan Adams into a bore, you clearly don't know Ryan Adams. The Superchunk coverer recently launched a new website with a new nonsense video series as well as a homepage for his Satanic/pizza-minded metal side project Werewolph. The latter includes strea...