History may be written by the victors, but the fact that it’s written at all is testimony to our passion for putting frames around things. Perhaps when you string enough frames together, you get the ...

It's shaping up to be a year filled with highlights for Mac McCaughan. Not only did the prodigious North Carolina musician welcome a second child into his family this year, but he's also seeing… By ...

Putting Chapel Hill, NC on the indie rock map, Mac McCaughan is renowned for being the lead voice in one of the best and perhaps most underrated punk rock pop bands of the last 20 years, Superchunk, ...

Download Portastatic’s “Silence by the Lakeside” (9.8 MB) or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Having your record remixed seems almost like an ...

Not only did Mac McCaughan’s 2-year-old daughter influence the theme of the singer-songwriter’s new Portastatic album, she also affected the project in a technical way. Bright Ideas is the first ...

Portastatic, the long-running side project of Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan, will return on Oct. 10 with its next Merge album, "Be Still Please." By Billboard Staff Portastatic, the long-running ...

There’s a great line on Be Still Please, the latest Portastatic record. In what may be the most barbed lyrical diatribe of last year, Mac McCaughan sings, “All my songs used to end the same ...

On his latest release, Merge and Superchunk man Mac McCaughan returns to his indie rock roots and explores the orchestral and bossa nova sounds of his soundtrack and previous Portastatic work. Save ...

As the driving force behind Portastatic, Mac McCaughan mixes everything from straightforward pop to lush string arrangements to masterful reproductions of Brazilian folk. Also known as lead singer of ...

Mac McCaughan seems to have reached that magical point in his career where a guy can just say the hell with it–his main bands, Superchunk and Portastatic, have pretty much topped out in popularity, ...

INDIE-ROCK The idea of melding the slack-pop of Superchunk front man Mac McCaughan’s Portastatic side project with the alt-jazz improvisations of saxophonist Ken Vandermark and percussionist Tim ...

With his eighth album as Portastatic, Mac McCaughan still has his feet on the ground — befitting what began as a subdued side project to his now-shuttered main band Superchunk. But these days he’s ...