Wednesday, March 10, 2004

THE QUESTION IS NOT WHERE I'M BUYING IT, OR HOW LONG IT WILL LAST. THE QUESTION IS HOW FAST: When the band that provided the title for this blog releases its first video DVD compilation, including a tour documentary among its four-plus hours o'content, we here are sure to let you know.

Superchunk's Crowding Up Your Visual Field, including the rarely-seen "Throwing Things" video, is now in stores, and by all accounts, it kicks appropriate ass:
Fifteen years of steady songwriting, touring, and DIY rock living has surely provided Superchunk with enough video footage to pack a box set of DVDs, but the band instead squeezes a cargo van full of material onto one disc. . . .

Those performances serve as a reminder that Superchunk has survived this long for a reason: For 15 years, it's made bedrock-solid, passionate music that these visuals might entertainingly augment, but will never truly improve.

One correction: the Garofalo/Cross video is "Watery Hands", which you can view online (among others) here.

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