Artist Lounge: Portastatic
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Starting about the end of May, beginning of June, all types of media - print, TV, internet, your friend's mouth - start the yearly ritual of making suggestions for Summer Reading. I understand this on one level, and then again I don't. Living in a northerly climate, once it gets to be real summer, most of us get real busy. It's the time we can finally be OUTSIDE, doing THINGS. Gardening, painting, riding, walking, running. All those things you wanted to do or get done in c... MORE
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Dear God, what a thing of beauty this song is. I've been freaking out in general about Portastatic's newest one for a few weeks now (since around the time we played together to a cavernous room in Greensboro, in fact), but this song has it all... ersatz Latin guitar plucking, a string arrangement that Van Dyke Parks would be envious of, guiros and finger snaps, and some Tweedy-esque guitar acrobatics. It's really a very strange song - the first few times I heard it I did... MORE
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I was in Wilmington, NC earlier this month visiting my sister, and had heard that a guy I knew was staying nearby at a beach house, so I pinged him. He invited me to dinner and one of the other people at the house was Mac McCaughan, of Merge Records/Superchunks/Portastatic. After a great group meal, we chatted (I was interested to hear that in his opinion lower prices on downloads would not really jack up online sales), and on the way home, I had two advance CD's to liste... MORE
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If you don't know who Mac McCaughan is, you should. Firstly, he plays guitar and sings in the highly respected Superchunk. And when he's not doing that, and wants to do something musical, he fronts Portastatic. And in his spare time he runs Merge Records whose roster includes Spoon, Robert Pollard, The Arcade Fire, American Music Club, The 6ths and lots and lots of other amazing artists. Portastatic have arrived. And now Mac has a MOG. You'll find it here: http://mo... MORE
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Monday night was one of the coldest nights in North Carolina in the past few years. So, of course I decided to go to a show! :) Yo La Tengo with Portastatic opening... If that isn't a bill worth walking through 12 degree weather, I don't know what is! A few thoughts on the night: Portastatic was the only opening band, which I found nice. I thought they would have played a longer set, but I assume they were being respectful, which is always cool with me. They played as ... MORE
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Heh -- got the new Portastatic in the mail today. Since I ordered it direct from the label, it came with some extras, including a second separate disc of demos and curios. Anyway, the Internet music database thing didn't recognize the second disc (entitled Some Small Things You Can't Defend), so I had to enter all the track info when I ripped it. Meanwhile, the Mog-o-Matic system seems to think that the second disc is a Supertramp album, at least over in the "Recently ... MORE
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Mac from Superchunk using his Portatstatic moniker does sweet justice to a gentle but moving film soundtrack, "Who Loves The Sun." This is what serene sounds like, making you feel all hazy-happy like you're drinking lemonade on the front porch of a big old white house overlooking some verdant midwest grasslands while the cast of "Little House on The Prairie" prances about and Pa asks if you'd like to join them on their big trip to Mankato. (Yep, a little fantasy of mine). ... MORE
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Cloudy day, with - according to the wife - "400 percent humidity." I should be writing some catalog copy for a client right now, but the idea of writing about school furnitures isn't all that appealing at the moment. In lieu of that, I should be working on our front walk, which had a small sinking thing going on when we bought the house a few months ago and which has grown steadily worse since. I pulled out about 25 bricks and poked around at it yesterday -- there's a ... MORE
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Firstly, I would like to state that the "Recently Added to Music Collection" portion of this page is a house of lies. I think that Mog-O-Matic randomly chose artists for that section. On the upside, the representation of my digital music collection appears to be pretty accurate. I recently added (6/15/06):Elf Power-- Back to the WebThe Lovely Feathers-- Hind Hind LegsElectric Soft Parade-- The Human Body EPThe Starlight Mints-- DrowatonBox-- Hellow Special Glowing Wor... MORE
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I was listening to this album at work yesterday and it wasn't until just now that I noticed the lyrics in part of the chorus are "you fuckers make that impossible to say". I have a job in the retail world where I'm constantly dealing with customers. haha.
Anywhoo...this album is one of my favs from this year. Mac just continues to make great album after great album.
