On September 14, your older half-brother’s favorite band Superchunk will release Majesty Shredding on CD, LP, and digital download. The band’s first album in almost a decade was produced/engineered by Scott Solter (The Mountain Goats, John Vanderslice) and features some (presumably pretty scrappy) backing vocals courtesy of The Mountain Goats’ own John Darnielle. And, as we previously reported so eloquently, old man McCaughan and co. have announced a handful of summer festival dates and fall East Coast dates in support of the new record. Touring in support of a new album? It almost sounds like these kids know what they’re doing or something…
So why are we re-reporting old news to you, you ask? Has Tiny Mix Tapes run out of ideas? Dried out? Washed up? Gotten sponsored by Merge? While all of those things may seem like valid contenders for the truth, the real reason is that we now we have the tracklist and cover art for Majesty Shredding, along with the news that da ‘Chizunk will also perform on a little show called Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Monday, September 20 (making this their first television appearance since 1994, a.k.a. The Beck Administration). And that’s news you can take to the BANK, kids. Which bank? I don’t know. Joseph A. Bank? (Is that a bank?)
Majesty Shredding:
01. Digging for Something
02. My Gap Feels Weird
03. Rosemarie
04. Crossed Wires
05. Slow Drip
06. Fractures in Plaster
07. Learned to Surf
08. Winter Games
09. Rope Light
10. Hot Tubes
11. Everything at Once
The “Chunk Light” tour:
06.19.10 - Denver, CO - Westword Music Festival
06.20.10 - Chicago, IL - Taste of Randolph Street Festival
07.24.10 - Omaha, NE - MAHA Music Festival
09.17.10 - Washington, DC - 930 Club
09.18.10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
09.19.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
09.20.10 - New York, NY - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
09.21.10 - Boston, MA - Royale
09.22.10 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
• Superchunk: http://www.superchunk.com
• Merge: http://www.mergerecords.com
• Joesph A. Bank (not a bank, as it turns out): http://bit.ly/akfuYl
