Indie icon, folk troubadour, pop medium. Mac McCaughan has assumed many musical guises for his Portastatic project, which has existed almost as long as Superchunk, that other band he fronts. There’s a telling photo of stacks of unmixed four-track cassettes, dating as far back as Christmas 1989, inside the two-CD Some Small History. Disc one … Continue reading Essential New Music: Portastatic’s “Some Small History”