Headliners The Flaming Lips & Superchunk perform in Raleigh’s City Plaza as part of 2011′s Hopscotch Music Festival.

The New Pornographers have drafted a bunch of nouveau comedians to star in the video for “Moves,” the latest single off Together. Among the famous faces who’ve united to tell the band’s origin story as it actually happened include Paul Rudd, SNL’s Bill Hader and Horatio Sanz, The Daily Show’s Wyatt Synac, John Oliver and [...]

The Vaselines – Sex With an X – “I Hate the 80s” With the slap of a tambourine and a breezy bass line and guitar from Bobby Kildea and Stevie Jackson (of Belle & Sebastian), The Vaselines are back, or at least the founding duo is. The voices of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, which [...]

Skip Matheny— currently a songwriter in the band Roman Candle and former bartender in a retirement community — caught up with Mac McCaughan recently in Chapel Hill, NC, before the release of Majesty Shredding, Superchunk’s acclaimed new album, and their first since Here’s to Shutting Up nine years ago. Superchunk live dates follow the interview [...]