Mac Mccaughan (merge Records, Superchunk, Portastic)

December 31, 1999, 8:00pm

Photo by Jason Bergman

Vice: What’s the weirdest or worst or funniest organizational or administrative decision you’ve seen at a festival?

Mac:

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Wow, that’s a good one. Anyway, because there are now so many large-scale American festivals each year, as the owner of a label, is there anything about it that sucks for your bands, or any bands?
I was just about to ask you about bands playing their “seminal” albums start to finish. I’m personally conflicted, with good and bad feelings on that. There are definitely bands that phone in those performances.
Is SXSW still as beneficial for a label’s newer bands as it used to be?