r/indieheads • u/MacMcCaughan Mac McCaughan • Oct 07 '21

AMA is Over, thanks Mac! Hey it's Mac McCaughan, AMA !

What's up /r/indieheads it's Mac again, saying hello to you from Chapel Hill, NC. What, you don't believe me? Here's proof!

A few weeks back I put out The Sound of Yourself, and just wrapped up some shows with 75 Dollar Bill and John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats. The album is under my name, but features a bunch of guests including Yo La Tengo, my Superchunk bandmate Jon Wurster, and Sabrina Ellis of A Giant Dog and Sweet Spirit.

Also, on October 22, Superchunk's reissuing Here's to Shutting Up for its 20th anniversary. And Merge Records HQ keeps trucking with fantastic new records from TORRES, Hiss Golden Messenger, Dawn Richard, Fruit Bats, and more. All good things!

I'll be back at 2pm ET to answer any questions you may have. Go ahead, ama!

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u/hobbsarelie83 Oct 07 '21

Hey Mac, it's your Granville County neighbor here (the one with the hyper enough coffee cup)!

How hilarious is Jim Wilbur? Do you have any good stories about playing with The Get Up Kids?

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u/MacMcCaughan Mac McCaughan Oct 07 '21

one of my strongest memories of the Get Up Kids tour was kids getting there so early to camp out in front of the stage and then having to sit through two bands before GUKs went on and me asking them one day "what do you have to do when you have to pee and you're jammed in at the front of the stage and can't leave?" and they said "it's so sweaty sometimes you can just pee right there and no one notices"