Superchunk - Not Lonely, Just Live 2022

Rough Trade

Superchunk plays Webster Hall, N.Y. in 2022
photo by Douglass Dresher

New York, N.Y.

June 14, 2022

(acoustic show)

audience recording

(sound quality: VG+) 
  

01 intro, tuning

02 Wild Loneliness

03 Endless Summer

04 Rainy Streets

05 Seed Toss

06 Driveway to Driveway

07 If You're Not Dark

-sample Superchunk's marvelousness here-

"Endless Summer" KEXP Live,  April 2022

KEXP Studios

Superchunk plays Bumbershoot in 2011

Seattle, WA

April 4, 2022

webstream capture (sound quality: VG++) 

  

01 Wild Loneliness

02 Refracting

03 Endless Summer

04 Rainy Streets

ROB SEZ: Superchunk may be too busy running Merge Records,  or whatever. If Mac McCaughan and company can't do much to promote Wild Loneliness, the band's *stunning* long-player released a few months ago, then I'm gonna do my little bit to try to get the word out. Wild Loneliness is fabulous, even in comparison to their extensive catalogue of fabulousness. I strongly encourage you to give it a listen. (Is Jon Wurster the best indie music drummer of his era? Discuss.) Meanwhile, I'm indebted to neil d and KEXP for sharing the music.

   

FLAC Rough Trade set is lossless, KEXP = lossless capture of lossy source

MP3@320

    

Superchunk - Australia & Sweden 1994 + 1996 (FM)

Live at The Wireless 

JJJ Studios

Sydney, Australia

Oct. 3, 1994

  

FM recording (sound quality: Ex-; master tape source)

  

01 Driveway to Driveway*

02 Skip Steps 1 & 3

03 Hyper Enough**

04 Untied

     *some dropouts, first 10 seconds only
    **one of the first known live performances

  

Underground

Gothenburg, Sweden 

Feb. 15, 1996

  

FM recording (sound quality: VG; not a great audio mix, but a great performance via the master tape source)

   

01 Eastern Terminal

02 Iron On

03 Water Wings

04 Precision Auto

05 Driveway to Driveway

06 Hyper Enough

07 Throwing Things

08 Silverleaf and Snowy Tears

09 Seed Toss

10 Question Is How Fast (cuts out; tape flip) 

11 Question Is How Fast (cont'd)

12 Animated Airplanes Over Germany 

13 Interview, Pt. 1

14 Interview, Pt. 2

  
ROB SEZ: Making up for lost time with two Superchunk posts in 8 days. This one dials it back to the band's earlier years, when they were a younger, hungrier & very loud indie band. I prefer their later & more recent recordings (a bit more nuance & a bit less noise) — but every listener seems to have a different opinion. Special thanks to Trekkyt & Popmarter for recording, mastering & sharing the 1996 performance. Not sure who recorded & shared the 1994 live set, but I hereby thank him/her/them also. If you have more than a passing interest in this band, try both parts of the 1996 interview — a brief, fun listen.
  
Fascinating Reading link:  Laura Ballance rates all of Superchunk's albums.
  
FLAC
(1996 set = 24-96 hi-res recording)
  
MP3@320
  

Learn more about Superchunk's music 
at the band's official site and/or AllMusic  

      

Superchunk - Stockholm, Sweden 2013

Debaser Hornstull Strand 
Stockholm, Sweden
Dec. 6, 2013

audience recording (sound quality: VG++; a high-quality capture)

SUPERCHUNK in SWEDEN: gotta love the tapers who take & share photos like these 

  

01 intro

02 Driveway to Driveway

03 Learn to Surf
04 FOH (Front of the House) 
05 Jackie
06 Question Is How Fast
07 Detroit Has a Skyline
08 Skip Steps 1,2,3
09 Void
10 Out of Sun
11 Hawk
12 New Bruiser
13 Iron On
14 Low F
15 Digging for Something
16 Hyper Enough
17 Encore Break
18 100.000 Fireflies
19 Slack M.F.

20 Throwing Things

ROB SEZ: Last week, Deacon Blue; this week: North Carolina indie home team Superchunk. Say what you want about this blog, but one thing you can't dispute: we got range. I've been threatening to feature Superchunk for quite a while, but only recently got hold of this superior audio document. So here ya go, with HUGE THANKS to taper & photographer Trekytt.
  

Out now: AF (Acoustic Foolish), feat. Peter H

  

REPERCUSSION: Until recently, I didn't think Superchunk had any direct connection to our usual heroes at the Repercussion blog. Then I found out Peter Holsapple is one of the "extra" musicians on the band's latest, AF (Acoustic Foolish). How cool is that?

  

FLAC
(hi-res 24-bit share)

  

MP3@320