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Mac McCaughan
Background information
Born
(1967-07-12) July 12, 1967 (age 56)
Genres
indie rock
Occupation(s)
Musician, songwriter, co-founder of Merge Records
Instrument(s)
Vocals, guitar
Labels
Merge Records, Matador
Musical artist
Ralph Lee "Mac" McCaughan (/məˈkɑːn/; born July 12, 1967) is an American musician and record label owner, based in North Carolina. His main musical projects have been Superchunk since 1989 and Portastatic since the early 1990s. In 1989 he founded the independent record label Merge Records with Superchunk bandmate Laura Ballance.
Ralph Lee "Mac" McCaughan (/məˈkɑːn/; born July 12, 1967) is an American musician and record label owner, based in North Carolina. His main musical projects...
Hill, North Carolina, United States, consisting of singer-guitarist MacMcCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Laura King...
McCaughan is a surname of Irish origin. It is an Anglicised form of the Irish language Mac Eacháin, meaning "son of Eachán". The personal name Eachán is...
occasional backing vocals) and co-founder of Merge Records along with MacMcCaughan. In 2013 she announced that she would no longer be touring with the...
2003. The accompanying booklet is particularly meaty, as band members MacMcCaughan, Jim Wilbur, Laura Ballance and Jon Wurster weigh in with what they...
Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and MacMcCaughan. It began as an outlet for music from their band Superchunk and music...
American indie rock band founded in the early 1990s as a solo project of MacMcCaughan, singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Superchunk. The project...
Guided by Voices, Grasshopper of Mercury Rev, J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., MacMcCaughan of Superchunk, Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, Anton Newcombe of The...
McGee. Madlib recorded his first album as Quasimoto, "The Unseen", on a TASCAM Portastudio. Portastatic was named after the Portastudio MacMcCaughan...
as b-side for the single version of "Mower". According to frontman MacMcCaughan, On the Mouth saw Superchunk pulling from different influences without...
(also available on the Ow!, Quit It 2x 7" compilation). According to MacMcCaughan, "Replacement Parts" was an unreleased song recorded for this album...
another song "Ruby Bulbs" to Merge Records founders Laura Ballance and MacMcCaughan. The two liked the music, and added Neutral Milk Hotel to their roster...
past." All tracks are written by MacMcCaughan, Laura Ballance, Jon Wurster and Jim Wilbur. Superchunk MacMcCaughan – vocals, guitar Laura Ballance –...
University. She briefly recorded songs with future Superchunk guitarist MacMcCaughan and others in a lo-fi band called Bricks and deejaying on the university's...
and several 7-inches on Merge Records, a label run by Superchunk's MacMcCaughan, a high-school classmate of Brylawski and Popson. Merge Records issued...
Eat It Up) (CD/LP) [anthology] Go Back Snowball: (Robert Pollard and MacMcCaughan) 2002 – Calling Zero Hazzard Hotrods: (Recording of informal 1990 performance...
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