HAVE YOU GOT A MINUTE? The band responsible for this blog's web address, Superchunk is back at the Trocadero Wednesday night; first time I saw them there was in 1992 with Bettie Serveert opening, when I was younger and more capable of handling a mosh pit. Eighteen years later, I'm not sure if I can still rock, but based on NPR's stream of their concert at the 9:30 Club last week and the post-show performance of "Precision Auto" from last night's Jimmy Fallon taping, they sure as hell can:
[Added: AVClub interview!]
You should go. I'm still trying to write up the NYC show without sounding like a spastic fanboy. They sound really really really good, and look like they're having fun. Plus which, a room full of pleasantly alterna-rock refugees from the 1990s all gleefully singing Cast Iron together is a room you want to be in.
ReplyDelete...and by "you" I mean all of you. Not just Adam. EVERYONE WHO READS THIS POST. Just go.
ReplyDeleteMac, from that interview:
ReplyDelete"Going back to the digital side for Merge, I don’t know what the percentage on digital versus physical is for a Lady Gaga record, something that is so incredibly popular, but for us the physical thing is still important. I feel like a broken record when I say this, but I think as a label, one of our jobs is to create music fans. And one of the ways you do that is by putting out records that people can look at and hold onto and listen to and think about and read. To me, if you’re going to make an impression on people and get people involved, it really is a two-way street. You don’t do tours where you just play for a camera that’s webcasting, you play in front of people in a club. And that may also be webcast, but you’re still playing to live people. I think that interaction happens also when people buy records. The interaction with the band they’re investing their money in or with a person at the record store who’s talking with them about whichever records they like—it’s a human connection back and forth, making people feel like they’re involved. You can click a button and get a record for free or pay $9.99 for it or whatever, but how do you feel involved with that transaction? What part of you is engaged with that? The part of you that’s simultaneously checking your e-mail? It’s like nothing happened, in a way. [Laughs.] That to us is one of the things that we try to figure out, how to involve people in the music. Because I think that’s how music fans are created. "