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As a perfect antidote in almost every way to the grim and joyless disaster that was last night’s MTV Video Music Awards, I’m very excited to share with you a brand new video for Superchunk off their new album, Majesty Shredding. Yes! It’s the first new music from our old pals (playing together) in nine years! The video catches up with the old gang who have gone their separate ways. It was directed by former Daily Show writer Scott Jacobson, and features Mac, Laura, Jim, and Jon, as well as John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats and also comedian Ted Travelstead and also a bunch of dudes from LookAtThisFuckingHipster.com. Perfect. If you’ll allow me a brief moment of self-indulgence (as if you have a choice, and as if there are ever any other kind of brief moments on this website) Superchunk was my number one favorite band in high school and college (THAT’S RIGHT, I’VE BEEN TO COLLEGE!), so the opportunity to premiere their new video is just really exciting for me (which is what is most important always: me and how me feels). And because the video is so good, and also the song is great, this should be really exciting for you as well.
LET’S ENJOY IT:
McDonalds should change their slogan to Majesty Shredding because I’M LOVIN IT! (Out tomorrow on Merge records.)
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“Superchunk was my number one favorite band in high school and college.”
Yeah, I heard they killed when they appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show.
Yeah, I thought Gabe’s favorite band in high school was the Ink Spots. No, wait, the Vienna Royal Philharmonic. No, no, wait…two guys banging rocks together and grunting!
“Hahahaha…I get it! Gabe is old! Cool comment, teacherman!” — Videogum Monsters
I sang “Shallow End” all while waiting all morning for this post! Let’s hear it for OLDIES!
superchunk’s cure cover from the av club’s undercover series was super awesome too. glad to have these guys back. look at me getting all genuinegum up in here.
Genuinegum is always preferable to makejokestohidethefactthatyouhaveneverheardofthisbandgum. #confessions
This is the first time I have heard of this band as well, but holy smoke are they good! That drummer is playing his balls off at the end of this video.
Just in case you were wondering, that’s Jon Wurster, part of the comedy duo Scharpling & Wurster.
He also happens to be one of the funniest people on the planet not named Gabe:
http://twitter.com/jonwurster
i listened to their album “here’s where the strings come in” on my discman (DISCMAN!) throughout my trip to europe after my senior year of high school. they will always be linked to awesomeness.
My band’s first song was “100,00 Fireflies.” I ADORE the Magnetic Fields version of course, but we were inspired more by the Superchunk version. In fact I sometimes liked to introduce our version as “our cover of Sprchnks’s cover of a Mag Fields song!”
Sweet. Superchunk is the best!! Check out my great articles of the past few weeks on all things ‘chunk, leading up to tomorrow’s release. Singles, albums, pics, drumming – everything you need to get hyped.
http://onegoodminute.wordpress.com/tag/superchunk/
I would have gone with Jermajesty Shredding for the album title to highlight the Jackson 5 influences.
Waaaaah, this just reminds me I can’t go to Matador 21. For the children: it’s this festival with a lot of bands that were really hot on the Lawrence Welk show.
“Philly Boy” Roy Ziegler will always be my “one original member”!
Fantastic job! Though, in the interest of fairness, I confess, I may have decided I loved it before I seeing it. I’ve been waiting for this to post all morning. Actually, I’ve been waiting for it to post ever since I heard S. Jacobson was working on it. YEAH!
In a video filled with so much goodness (Wurster playing on patient’s arm, Laura’s “crafts”), my favorite thing is the simple addition of a trumpet player in Mac’s new band. It was hard to top the Watery Hands video of old, but this in now my favorite. Great great job. Nice Ted Travelstead cameo too!
And John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats too!
wow, missed that! Dentist, correct?
I’ve developed a recent “nerdcrush” on Jon Wurster. Partially because I’ve lived in Philly for years now and can relate to Philly Boy Roy.
As a Philly resident myself, I can honestly say he fucking nails that character perfectly.
“Anyone from Cherry Hill? I thought I smelled something.”
True story, y’all! Superchunk (and, obvs by extension, Merge) is about 50% of the reason I moved to Chapel Hill in the first place.
Okay I just watched it again. If anyone one involved in making it reads these comments: Thank you so much for this! It made my day. And thanks to my 2 favorite sites VG and (SG by proxy) for being the venue for it’s world premiere! Today you have struck a major blow (nullus) for the AARP Monster chapter. Also, that is Yale’s joke. The AARP joke. Don’t want her to read this and think I’m biting her style. Because old people like us value things like not jacking ppl’s style and they also value things like “Not fronting” and “keeping it real real even under stressful conditions like waiting all weekend for a video to post to the Internet.” Things that YOUNG KIDS (except Yael…and maybe Kiri Mack) don’t seem to value as much! How do you like us now bbs?! Not so great is it? Being pushed off the Interned Freeway/Highway thing for walking too slow and spilling ovaltine all over the front of your Formal Cardigan. Not so funny huh! Oh man….I need a nap. Someone help me to my room.
May/may not have gotten a *little* too excited about this on my twitter feed today. Hard to say. Who can judge? Fine line.
Another Chapel Hill resident/Superchunk/Merge fanboy extraordinare here– this video exclusive has led me to delurk and join the monster masses at last.
But holy dear God, I wish I was not in class right now– I got this album on Friday (Merge treats its local indie stores right- got a boatload of swag to go with it too), and Digging for Something has been on repeat in my brain ever since. The still of Mac going full hipster alone is enough to crack me up.
Speaking of hipsters? The LAFH-ish dudes and lady pictured there are The Love Language, a local Merge signing who, yes, look like they fell out of an Urban Outfitters, but sound SO DAMN GOOD you really cannot care. They have rocked the hell out of every show and venue I have seen them in, and I really think they’ve got it in them to be the next big thing…. so go check them out (their latest, Libraries, came out this summer on Merge, and is a stone cold classic).
OK, enough Pluggum. Gabe, thrilled to know you share my love for these guys, and the sight of two of my favorite things mashed together has brought joy and happiness to my morning.
(PS: Any other Triangle-area monsters going to the release party at the Nahser on Thursday?)
I can’t get away from Virginia to get to the release show, but I am going to Chapel Hill this weekend for good times! I am going to eat at Carrburritos! I am going to shop at Nice Price! I am going to stand in the best sunshine on Earth!
I’m sorry–all of this has made me very exceptionally happy today. I just can’t say enough how great living in North Carolina is. The people are great, the bands are wonderful and the food is the best.
(Looks out upon the dreary expanse of Virginia and sighs.)
Hey Mans, you should check out SPARKcon in Raleigh if you’ve got time. Otherwise, I’m going dancing Saturday night at Chapel Hill Underground if you want to try to have an impromptu Monster’s Ball. Or you can also check out thestagger.com for all sorts of awesome things going on around town. Enjoy yourself at any rate!
I wanted to make it for the Le Weekend show at the Nightlight on Friday, but I can’t leave until Saturday morning, but everyone in Chapel Hill should go to the Le Weekend show.
Are you coming down here for a specific show or event? I’ve never heard Le Weekend, but I’ve got other friends-of-friends coming into town, so if it’s worthwhile I’ll recommend it.
For food, a good taco truck is open 6-midnight on weekend nights in the parking lot across the street from the Harris Teeter next to Weaver St. Don’t be tempted by the other taco trucks nearby; that one is definitely the best. Also Med Deli. And Mint, one of the 3 Indian restaurants immediately surrounding Local 506 has a $12 brunch buffet on weekends that includes all-you-can-drink mimosas.
Also, be sure to eat a Locopop while it’s still warm enough outside to enjoy it.
#chapelhill/carrborogum
+1 for Carrburritos
I saw Tyler Hansbrough in Carrburritos once. He ate two burritos! He is a big man!
i get superchunk mixed up with supergrass all the time. alas.
Neither of which are superdrag, apparently.
Finally, SOMEBODY is willing to take on the hipsters, our society’s sacredest cows.
JK I watched this video twice in a row and it made me immensely happy both time. Tears were shed, lulz were luld. Hooray!
I just like this band because the drummer looks like my husband. I <3 Jon Wurster/Jeb 4-eva!
I love this new song and I love Superchunk. As a child of the 90s, nothing makes me thing of the endless possibilities of beautiful Friday afternoons as much as Superchunk does.
Upon watching the video, I realize I am friends with one of the people in Superchunk 2.0. Man, so much happens when you move away.
Hell yeah Mans. I will never forget seeing Superchunk at Lollapalooza in 1995. I was young and has my whole life ahead of me truly living in the moment…..sigh.
In October of 1994, the fall of my sophomore year of college, I drove to Chapel Hill from Kentucky with three friends just to go to a show at the Cat’s Cradle. Actually, my friend Rob was in school at Guilford in Greensboro at the time and was the only one of us to have a car, so he drove from North Carolina to Central Kentucky, picked us up, and then drove us back.
We got there late on Friday night and were really hungry. We stopped at the Domino’s by where the Reservoir is now, but it wouldn’t let us in to order a pizza (and cell phones weren’t invented yet). There were two girls who told us they would tell us where a grocery store was if we would give them a ride home. We said, “Sure, but would you show us where the grocery is, we don’t know our way around.” So they went with us to the Harris Teeter behind Weaver Street.
We must have freaked them out because when we were finished shopping, they were no where to be found. Or we left them. I don’ t know.
We stayed in the house of one of the guys’s cousins who taught at UNC. The cousin was out of town. They left their dog for us to watch, but you couldn’t look it in the eye because it would pee if you did. The dog loved to corner you and stare at your face until you gave and looked at it and then it would piss and piss and piss.
On Saturday night we wen to see the Archers of Loaf. Brilliant. On Sunday night we saw Sebadoh with Dog Faced Hermans and Wingtip Sloat (by the way, kids, that is how you name bands). Dog Faced Hermans, as the middle band, got two encores. By the time Sebadoh played they were in lousy moods and Lou walked off angrily. Then he came back and apologized and played “Punch in the Nose.” Basically, everything you want from Sebadoh.
After the show we drove back to Kentucky because I had Brit Lit the next morning at 10:10 and I didn’t want to miss it. I stayed up all night while my friends drove and we listened to music until dawn. I made it to class but skipped Physics. As I came out of Brit Lit, I saw the girl who sat in front of me in Physics class–a really really cute girl–and I asked her to take notes for me. I generally loved Physics because I got to sit behind her and look at her hair, which was really pretty. I would also try and make her laugh during class, which annoyed her, I think. But I was so tired at that point, I couldn’t go on.
She said she would take notes for me, not realizing that we would end up married.
Mans, your comments on this thread are seriously giving me so much joy! I love living here so much, and it really tickles me whenever anyone else comes to visit, because then you get to see how awesome it is too.
We all ended up moving there after college. I lived in Carrboro for years. I only just moved away a little bit ago.
What part of VA do you live in now? My boyfriend and I moved down here from Tidewater 5 years ago. I have only regretted the decision once or twice since then.
The Glorious Shenandoah Valley ™.
I love your writing Mans because it reminds me all we really have in life are the moments you just so accurately described.
Please tell me this story is in your novel.
Fuck you for having seen the Archers of Loaf live.
Not really it’s actually awesome beyond all reason!
I’ve seen them several times! I’m just old.
the album is up on npr’s music site. listened to it like 10 times. love it. and this song is tops.
tops:
Hell fucking yeah! It’s 1992 all over again up in my brain pan!
Yay! I love MusicVideogum!
Wurster is a party dentist.
sometimes it’s nice to just like things.
and i just liked watching one drummer murder another.
Fuck yeah Superchunk! Also, Archers of Loaf anyone?
heck yeah on both accounts. i’m so excited to listen to old cds on my way home from work today, thanks for the reminder ass dan
Vs. the Greatest of All Time for all days, yo!
archers of loaf! i love the song “wrong”
I’m glad to see that Jon Wurster is in this video back to doing what he does best: threatening to or just plain committing murder.
Sadly, Jon was probably the best dentist I’ve ever been to.
Basically this has made me say the following to by job toady:
“Im working….BUT IM NOT WORKING FOR YOUUUUUUUU! NO! SLACK MOTHER F**KER!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY03xrcaIlM
I give you all of the upvotes recently found by scientists at the center of our universe, which are really lots of upvotes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofUNN-0AuQ
Conversations about music on Videogum > Conversations about music on Stereogum
Yay Superchunk! You can stream the entire new album here:
http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/10
I really wish I was the age I am now (23) in the early to mid 90′s. I would’ve loved to experience stuff like this first hand. Oh well. In any case, it always makes me happy when you get genuinely excited about something, Gabe, so a round of high fives for all!
Being the twelve year old girl that I am, I find this neither relevant or with nearly enough vampires.
That cat reminds me of David Bowie.
Scott Jacobson is funny in every medium? Books, television, and now directing music videos? Not fair! Spread the talent around, sir. Also, he just followed me on Twitter. Should I ask him to marry me now… or another time?
This is the best.
Laura’s crafts table includes the sculpture from the Leaves In The Gutter EP cover and the Come Pick Me Up painting. SUPERCHUNK INSIDE JOKESSSS
Was the guy working the stall next to Laura Tim Harrington from Les Savy Fav? Not that all semi-balding guys with a beard look the same…
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This video had the potential to be incredible and the director and whoever else conceptualized it should have realized one thing: the Love Language that are pretending to act like hipsters in the video are some of the most obvious real life hipsters. It confused me to because why would the director cast actual hipsters to make fun of hipsters? Do the Love Language not view themselves as hipsters? Have they not seen their own photoshoot pictures where they’re wearing the exact same clothes and glasses? This video could have been so good, and instead the hypocrisies are frustrating to the point where watching it is angering. I guess they didn’t have to spend any money on wardrobe because the LL just showed up in their everyday clothes and acted like they normally do. The parts with Laura, Jim and Jon are definitely cool and funny.
Or maybe they have a good sense of humor about themselves and are okay with some gentle ribbing?
right after the shoot, Stu went to go hook up with your girl
dude looks like Wavves. love it.