Noise Pop 20th Anniversary: Mac McCaughan
Sun Foot
- When
- Thu Feb 23, 2012
- Where
- Cafe du Nord
- Time
- 8:00pm
- Cost
- $15 - $17
- Tags
- Music
Description
Founding member of the rock band Superchunk, and co-founder of Merge Records along with Laura Ballance. He also heads the band Portastatic, which began as a lo-fi side project and has blossomed into his main musical project. Prior to this, he was the head of another lo-fi band named Bricks with Andrew Webster of Tsunami, Josh Phillips and Laura Cantrell. In 2002, McCaughan teamed up with Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices to form the group Go Back Snowball. The duo recorded and released an album in 2002, titled Calling Zero.On October 24, 2007, McCaughan gave expert witness testimony in the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on the topic "The Future of Radio".
-wikipedia.org
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