Superchunk + Versus @ South Street Seaport 07.17

For 20-years Merge Records and Superchunk have gone hand-in-hand giving us some of the best indie rock in the world. This week they'll be celebrating that legacy in North Carolina with the 5-day XX Merge Fest that we unfortunately won't be able to attend. Lucky for us we live in New York and all the best bands make stops here including Superchunk and their sometime Merge label mates Versus who joined forces to play for us on Friday night at the Seaport.

Now the Seaport is always a good time, but this year the sound has been infinitely better making the performances even more worthwhile then they were before. That combined with the awesome lineup made Friday night one of the best shows we've ever seen at the Seaport.

The show kicked off with Versus, a band who release their last three records on Merge before breaking up in 2001. Since then the band went on to form other bands like +/- and TFT, but returned in 2007 to open for Yo La Tengo during one of the Hannukah shows and Love Is All last year. Now they opened for Superchunk and did an admirable job playing as a four piece and really giving it their all. It's not as lively as the 'Chunk's set but it's damn good stuff.





Superchunk were simply amazing! Mixing up their song choices from throughout their career the band seemed to bounce across the stage with booming amount of energy. They were magnetic and the crowd seemed to respond in kind going pretty nuts for the band. It was a great performance and makes me really want to head to North Carolina this weekend!