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It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.

In 1989, Mack McCann co-founded the band SuperChun. SuperChun was abrasive and vulner.

Guitar is dominated there sound, with Mack's voice sitting low in the mix. The band caught

on and got huge. So huge. They helped coin the Gen X term slacker with their 1990 hit,

Slack Mother, while we can't say the whole title on NPR, but I think you know where that's

going. To release SuperChun's albums, Mack and his bandmates started their own label, merge records.

Merge quickly became more than just a run of the Mill Indie label. Over its 30 plus years

of existence, Merge released albums like Neutral Mill Cotels in the Airplane over the sea,

Spoon's Kill the Moonlight and Funeral, a breakthrough debut by Arcade Fire.

Mack is also a solo artist. He's released a handful of albums and EPs under his own name

in a broad range of genres. He's made everything from folk rock to ambient music. His latest

record is called The Sound of Yourself. It's pop music that caught the ear of our friend,

Jordan Morris, along with doing Bullseye interviews. Jordan's also a comedy writer in the

co-host of one of my other podcasts, Jordan Jesse Goal. Anyway, let's kick off their

conversation with a song from Max new album. This is Dawn Baines. Mac McCoy, welcome to Bullseye. Thank you. So Mac, I want to talk a little bit about

the music you were listening to when you were growing up. What kind of music was playing around your house and in the family car when you were a kid?

I grew up in South Florida until I was 13 years old. We moved to North Carolina. And growing up in the car, there was usually rock radio playing either top 40 or I guess what at the time was an album rock radio.

At home, we were usually listening to my dad's records and my dad didn't have a large record collection but he had some really good records.

I would say Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin, Elton John. Those were all quite popular. And my dad also loved any rock band that had a horn section.

So Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears. Yeah, sure. Yeah, that's what we listened to. That's what we listened to a lot at home.

Super chunks had some had some brass over the years. Did your dad enjoy that addition? Oh, I'm sure that he did. I think that the first time we had a horn section on a

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