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City: Chapel hill
State: NORTH CAROLINA
Country: US
Signup Date: 6/6/2005

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Thursday, December 07, 2006 
This poster was generously donated to Merge Records for this auction by the artist, Sara Turner. The poster is for the November 20th Portastatic show with The High Water Marks and Jason Zavala at Mecca in Lexington, KY. It is signed by Mac McCaughan (full band signatures available upon request) AKA Portastatic!

As always, all proceeds from this auction will go to Oxfam America and TROSA

You can bid on the poster by clicking THIS LINK

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 
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Saturday, November 04, 2006 
Mac called in an acoustic perfomance from his living room as part of WMBR Boston's Phoning It In. You can listen to it by clicking THIS LINK
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 
last two shows of the tour were the best i think, though there were no stinkers as far as we were concerned...wilco band & crew were all great to us & the crowds were too...

Athens -- Classic Center

this place was classic alright, a classic cee-ment airplane hanger! still, sound was surprisingly controlled and there were no seats so the crowd was standing. and drinking. we rocked it up a bit. this could be right:

hey salty
through w/ people
autumn got dark
a cunning latch
truckstop cassettes
naked pilseners
white wave
noisy night
san andreas
i wanna know girls

Jax, FL -- the Florida Theater

ornate place, awesome room. we got a 2-man standing ovation after Noisy Night, that was funny...nice folks, good way to go out:

tonight i'll be staying here with you
truckstop cassettes
through w/ people
angels of sleep
you know where to find me
naked pilseners
white wave
noisy night
san andreas
i wanna know girls
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006 
Portastatic will have a presence, albeit small, at South By Southwest this year: on Friday, March 17th at 1:30 pm, come to the 18th floor of the Capitol Place Hotel (500 N. IH-35) just one block from 6th street. Portastatic (i'll be solo for this) will be playing a few songs and talking with Mary Lucia from KCMP - "The Current" in Minneapolis. The session will be broadcast on KCMP and archived soon afterwards. then head over to the Merge/SubPop daytime party at Pok-E-Jo's that afternoon...meanwhile Superchunk plays Saturday night at Antone's at the Merge show! see you in Austin...
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Saturday, February 04, 2006 
Songs for Sixty-Five Roses. is a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation benefit cd out March 21st featuring 18 covers of North Carolina songs by other North Carolina bands.

Here is the tracklisting:

1. Jason Ross - Mower (Superchunk)
2. Caitlin Cary - Battleground Park (Goner)
3. Portastatic - Oh my Sweet Carolina (Ryan Adams)
4. Claire Holley - Lion Song (Harrod & Funck)
5. Sledge, Maxwell, Mosher - Buddha Buddha (Rick Rock)
6. Tift Merritt - It's the Shame (Stillhouse)
7. Eric Bachmann - Every Word Means No (Let's Active)
8. John Plymale - Mister Flavor (Metal Flake Mother)
9. Two Dollar Pistols - Driveway to Driveway (Superchunk)
10. Southern Culture on the Skids - Everybody wants my Baby (The Moaners)
11. Athenaeum - Forever and Ever, Amen (Randy Travis)
12. Nikki Meets the Hibachi - For Bob Riecke (Des Ark)
13. Chris Stamey - Nothing is Wrong (The dB's)
14. Michael Rank - Flounder (Fetchin Bones)
15. Mike Garrigan - Seems (Queen Sarah Saturday)
16. Greg Humphreys - Bent out of Shape (Squirrel Nut Zippers)
17. Katharine Whalen - Restlessness (Michael Kelsh)
18. Will McFarlane - Shower the People (James Taylor)

* () denotes songwriter
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Sunday, January 08, 2006 

Happy New Year everyone, let's hope for some good news in '06.

New Film Score Nearly Complete!
i've been writing and recording the score to a movie called Who Loves The Sun -- it's nearly done and an album with this music will be released under the Portastatic name sometime this Spring on Merge. the movie was directed by Matt Bissonette, half of the team that made Looking for Leonard a few years back, and stars Molly Parker (Deadwood), Lukas Haas (Last Days), and Adam Scott (The Aviator). the movie is a dramatic comedy and i suppose the music kind of is too! more strings, flute, piano and lots more oboe than on the Looking for Leonard Score, and recorded at Pox Studio in Durham (where we did the Autumn Was a Lark EP) i think it sounds a lot better in general than my first stab at a score. more news on that as i have it...

Derek Bailey RIP
one of the strangest, most confounding, most beautiful guitarists you'll ever hear died on Christmas. he created his own world, and pioneered improvised music, listen to his records and enjoy what he made.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 
what is it with the south and clubs that appear to have been completely destroyed the night before? we walked into WC Don's in Jackson around 5:30 on saturday and nearly walked right back out and hit the highway to NC...

but we also know the show must go on and all that, so we shored ourselves up, took pictures to document the fact that the club looks like a trashed frathouse where the frat boys in residence decided to turn it into a brothel but first find even more sodden furniture than they already had, and went to another bar to start drinking....

anyway we came back around 9:30 for "soundcheck" and were told that the soundman had gone home "to get the OTHER microphone" -- that's right kids, they have TWO at this joint! high class. anyway, the opening band color revolt were great guys, we hung with them for awhile, rocked out to a dancing Beetlejuice guy who knew the words, checked out some color revolt and hit the hay. wilbur drove the whole way home the next day, and that's a "shit ton" of miles as they say in jackson.

songs, i know we started with noisy night and ended with i wanna know girls, but can't find the list of what happened in between, though we definitely played smothered in hugs.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 

PORTASTATIC on Morning Becomes Eclectic:

when we were in LA, the Portastatic band taped a live session on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic at the Village Studios. The session will air THIS Friday, October 28th

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Friday, October 14, 2005 

get your iPods warmed up because there's an exclusive Portastatic EP available from iTunes this Tuesday, Oct 18th! The I Wanna Know Girls EP features the album track plus three other songs: Trajectory, All I Need Is You (a Sandy Denny & the Strawbs cover), and the acoustic demo of I Wanna Know Girls.

also, as you may already know the portastatic concert series, Leg 3 - the Vanderslice years - commences today, Friday Oct 14! hope to see you out in NYC this weekend and beyond. here's some ancillary activities you should know about:

* we're planning in-store appearances! playing songs and stuff at Criminal Records in Atlanta around 7 pm next Thursday, the 20th and at Park Ave. CDs in Orlando on Sunday the 23rd, time TBA!

* we'll be playing live on the radio in Austin at KUT at 2 PM, Thurs Oct 27th

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