Superchunk are releasing a new album I Hate Music this August, but bassist and founding member Laura Ballance won’t be joining them on the road to promote it. Ballance has penned a note on ...

Laura Ballance flops down on a couch in the lobby of Merge Records, the Durham-based record label she helped found in Chapel Hill nearly a quarter-century ago. Nearby, an employee combs through postal ...

Superchunk bassist Laura Ballance won’t be touring with the group in support of its new record, I Hate Music. In an open letter, Ballance said it’s not because she hates music or because she’s too old ...

Merge Records, the Chapel Hill-based independent label founded by Superchunk‘s Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989, has formed a partnership with the Secretly Group who own Secretly Canadian, ...

On the cusp of releasing their 10th studio album, I Hate Music, Superchunk founding member Laura Ballance had to break the news to fans: She wouldn’t be playing live with the group for the foreseeable ...

As college students in the late 1980s, Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan launched two projects that came to define their trajectories as... Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan As college ...

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