That’s the first one that sprung to mind for me.
And Roy Orbison, also RIP.
The Dead Weather
(Note: Jack White was mentioned by @RitterSport and I do see them on @Omar_Little’s list of Supergroups)
Also in the jazz world.
Actually, one of my peripheral pleasures when I listened to jazz a lot was hunting records that brought together musicians I liked. It was always a great wow-moment when I stumbled on collaborations I had never heard of, or even thought were possible (Rollins-Gillepsie, Getz-Gillespie, Coltrane-Rollins, Miles-Monk, etc.)
I’m a bit out-of-touch of contemporary jazz, but I’m sure it still happens.
If you try playing your CSN and Cream records on that Victor-ola, they’re gonna sound funny. aka, the Chipmunks were not a supergroup.
And not only Roy Orbison, but they’d recruited Del Shannon, who also died.
.
Well, it would’ve been if Thor could carry a tune, if Tony hadn’t spent his time inventing a Les Paul Keytar instead of learning to play the thing… and when the Hulk demanded that he get to play a twenty-minute solo on his “100 Snares” drum kit, it was all over.
Not exactly new (actually they formed more than 30 years ago), but AFAIK still active is the alt-country-rock supergroup Golden Smog. It consist of members of the Jayhawks (Gary Louris), Wilco (Jeff Tweedy), Soul Asylum (Dan Murphy and sometimes Dave Pirner), the Replacements and even Big Star’s Jody Stephens, and some guys from bands I don’t know well. As I am a fan of all these bands (saw the Jayhawks, Wilco and Soul Asylum several times live), I soon became aware of Golden Smog. They have released three full albums and some EPs, and their speciality are finely picked cover versions, though they also always have fine self-written songs on their records. In the booklet to their first full-length album “Down By The Old Mainstream”, they make fun of their status by depicting fictional record covers, one from a band “Temple Of The Smog”. I like them very much.
Here’s their cover of the Faces’ “Glad And Sorry” (written and sung by Ronnie Lane originally). I like it better than the Faces’ original.
That reminded me of the Golden Palominos, a sort of revolving supergroup centered on/organized by drummer Anton Fier.
Not relevant to anything in particular, but Golden Smog, The Golden Palominos, and Bill Callahan’s band Smog all occupy the same set of neurons in my brain. I don’t think they particularly sound alike, but I have to relearn that fact at least a couple of times a year.
The Highwomen? Brandi Carlile et al started playing in 2019.
Josh Homme was mentioned earlier. Queens of the Stone Age is basically his portable supergroup.
I’d say the current version of Mr. Bungle is something of a supergroup, with Scott Ian & Dave Lombardo joining the line-up. And while Mike Patton was an original member, he’s much more well known for Faith No More.
Today’s supergroups are largely Korean. With BTS at the very top.
Seconding New Pornographers, who have been described as a “supergroup”
I’m not superknowledgeable about Korean groups, but I thought they were boy bands like other boy bands: groups of unknowns who are auditioned by a producer.
BTS falls into this category. As a group BTS might be super, but they don’t fit the definition of a supergroup.
Maybe someone from the ARMY will prove me wrong.
I would not call BTS a supergroup. Just a very popular boy band. But there are true recent Korean supergroups. Two that were formed not long ago by the agency SM Entertainment are SuperM, a boy band, and Got the Beat, a girl group.
Let’s not forget the Super(mediocre) Group The Dead Daises.
Heh, I remembered (and looked up, it was all the way back in 2006) MTV launched a reality show called Supergroup where they did the “put people in the same house and have them act like dicks while trying to work as a team towards a capstone deadline” schtick with rockers – bringing together in this case Sebastian Bach, Jason Bonham, Scott Ian, Ted Nugent and Evan Seinfeld. Never progressed before that first series. Saw 2 eps and I can understand why.
How many of you remember when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, and Bob Dylan secretly formed a supergroup and released an album under the name The Masked Marauders? It was 1969 if that helps.
Actually, McCartney plays bass on a few tracks on the new Rolling Stones album. Does two songs count as a “supergroup?”