Mac McCaughan at DC9 Nightclub
Schedule
Thu Sep 30 2021 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Location
DC9 Nightclub | Washington D.C., DC
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Mac McCaughan
Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan was ready to take a collection of unused tracks he had written for various movie soundtracks and assemble a new solo album. He needed only to write a few more songs to round out what was supposed to be an invigorating power pop record. Sounds easy enough, right?
However, upon employing some dusty synths on the tracks “Your Hologram” and “Only Do,” McCaughan realized that he wanted to use the album, eventually titled Non-Believers, to explore his fascination with that early-’80s era of music when punk evolved into something more introspective, focusing on themes of isolation and eventually turning into post-punk and new wave. As he puts it, he was thinking about a time when bands were “using keyboards and drum machines to relate through their music a disaffection or alienation” from society, school, whatever. However, what really captivated McCaughan was that these artists, particularly British bands like The Cure, OMD, and Cocteau Twins, could end up making such emotionally affecting, even romantic, music when tackling these themes. As McCaughan points out, “I’m constantly discovering and consuming new music, so why does an old New Order song trigger the kind of emotional response that it does?” It certainly seems like he started writing a new batch of songs in order to answer that question. It also became clear that he had to scrap the original batch of songs in order to do it.
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Where is it happening?
DC9 Nightclub, 1940 9th St NW, Washington D.C., United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
Tickets
USD 15
