Video: SUPERCHUNK crossed wires South Street Seaport NYC July 17 2009

Chapel Hill's indie rock stalwarts Superchunk have felt more like an institution than a working band for the last, oh, decade or so. The Merge label started by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance keeps busy releasing records by bigger and bigger names - Spoon, M Ward, Conor Oberst - as well as scooping up reuniting icons Dinosaur Jr. and American Music Club. Drummer Jon Wurster seems to be a semi-permanent fixture in the Mountain Goats these days. Of course McCaughan has been progressively more prolific with his once side-project and now main focus, Portastatic. [...]