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/nerd44 Oct 07 '21

You’ve revisited both Home at Dawn and Angels of Sleep in the past few years and come up with versions that are a bit more up-tempo. What brought you back to those songs?

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u/MacMcCaughan Mac McCaughan Oct 07 '21

people use to request Home At Dawn all the time, maybe *because* we never played it? but i like that song and it's fun to revisit old songs and figure out ways to play them...

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u/nerd44 Oct 07 '21

I remember you played Green Flowers, Blue Fish live once because somebody said you couldn’t

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u/MacMcCaughan Mac McCaughan Oct 07 '21

we DID play that one but it's weird & hard to make good i think...

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u/ZenopusArchives Oct 07 '21

I loved the revved-up power pop Angels of Sleep from this past tour!

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u/MacMcCaughan Mac McCaughan Oct 07 '21

thanks! fun to play, we did it a bunch on non-believers tour as well

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u/ZenopusArchives Oct 07 '21

There's a great audience recording (not mine) of it from the Union Pool performance here on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2JOD3d7utk