Superchunk, fresh off a busy 2023, has announced a new, limited 7" out Jan. 26: “Everybody Dies” b/w “As in a Blender” out on Merge Records.
Mac McCaughan explains in the vinyl liner notes:
The last years have often felt like an avalanche of loss—starting with Bowie and Prince, really, and then magnified by the pandemic and amplified by social media. Something that seems different recently is that we aren’t just losing legends from older generations—Pharoah Sanders or Toots Hibbert or Kidd Jordan or Tina Turner—but musicians we think of as peers and friends; people we have toured with and recorded with and shared beers with all over the world. It means of course we’re getting older, and while we know from an early age that yes, everybody dies, it doesn’t make these departures any less shocking.
The band also has extensive touring planned for the coming year.
Merge also shares that a 35th anniversary festival will take place July 24-27 with more info to come.
Superchunk on tour:
Feb 01 San Diego, CA – Music Box*
Feb 02 Los Angeles, CA – The Regent Theater*
Feb 03 San Francisco, CA – The Regency Ballroom (HOMESICK Festival)
Feb 04 Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s*
Feb 06 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall*
Feb 07 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile*
Feb 08 Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre*
Mar 20 Tomakomai, Hokkaido, JP – ELLCUBE%
Mar 23 Sakai, Osaka, JP – Fandango%
Mar 24 Shindaita, Tokyo, JP – Fever%
Mar 25 Shindaita, Tokyo, JP – Fever
*w/ Fucked Up
%w/ NOT WONK
