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A Look at the Career and Releases of Superchunk
Formed in 1989 in Chapel Hill, Superchunk has released 13 studio albums and four compilation albums throughout their career.
Ralph Lee Mac McCaughan, Laura Ballance, Jack McCook, and Chuck Garrison founded the band Chunk in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1989. A few months later, the group changed its name to Superchunk. McCaughan and Ballance co-founded Merge Records together in order to release the first singles of Superchunk. Following the departure of McCook and Garrison from the band, drummer Jon Wurster and guitarist Jim Wilbur joined the Superchunk lineup.
Tossing Seeds was the first full-length CD album to be released by Merge Records. Starting with the 1994 album Foolish, Superchunk began to release their own music through Merge. Throughout their career, Superchunk has released 13 studio albums and four compilation albums. Superchunk has also released four different collections compiled from singles and EPs. The name of the music publishing company owned by Superchunk is All the Songs Sound the Same Music.
Superchunk’s eighth studio album, Here’s to Shutting Up, was released on September 18. Following the release of Here’s to Shutting Up, Superchunk did not break up, but the band waited nine years to release their next studio album.
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