Superchunk, every mention

Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan Dec 6, 2021 · 46 mentions

• ▶ 3:16 Guy Raz They were part of the band Superchunk, and in fact, playing and touring and being immersed in the indie scene in the late nineteen-eighties was one of the things that inspired them to start their own label. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 21:32 Guy Raz You start another band called Chunk with Laura. 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 24:41 Guy Raz I mean, you had this band called Chunk, but what, like, how did the idea come about to start a record label?
• ▶ 26:44 Guy Raz And this turns out to be a pretty eventful year because not only have they started a band called Chunk, they've also decided to start their own record label.
• ▶ 30:13 Guy Raz But did it, if in fact it was a, it was about just distributing and printing and doing all this stuff for Chunk, why did you even need to create a label? 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 34:01 Guy Raz Meantime, you put out, for Chunk, you put out some music on this label Merge that you have, and this is complicated, because I read that in, like, early 1990, you signed a deal, a record deal, with a record label called Matador, which went… 9 times in the scene
• ▶ 37:33 Guy Raz But as you started to, like, get some more airplane stuff, you know, on college stations, could you just focus on Superchunk or did you still have to have other jobs? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 44:15 Laura Ballance But, but basically, it felt, I mean, I felt like what, what we had built with Superchunk and Merge was larger than us at the, at this moment when we were splitting up personally. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 45:39 Guy Raz But they are still very much together, very much partners when it comes to the record label Merge and their band Superchunk. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 50:20 Guy Raz Because Superchunk was the band, Merge was the label. 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:14:10 Guy Raz I just want to ask one more thing about the two of you, because, because, of course, this is, this isn't just a story about the label or about Superchunk.
• ▶ 1:15:53 Guy Raz That's Laura Balance and Mac McCann, founders of Merge Records and members of the band Superchunk. 4 times in the scene