Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:07PM - By Seraphina L.
As we previously mentioned, the little indie label that could (grow into one of the most successful labels), Merge Records, celebrate their 20th anniversary this year. Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance should be two of the happiest people in love with music, because they’ve earned everything they’ve achieved.
To celebrate this milestone, Merge Records is releasing a incredibly huge box set with everything from curated CDs (by your fave celebs), a covers CD (where other artists cover Merge artists), a cover art book (soft bound and 350+ pages featuring every single Merge record cover from the past 20 years), and of course – what you’ve been waiting for us tell you about: A remix CD.
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Monday, July 6, 2009 12:00PM - By Seraphina L.
If there were any independent record label to blossom beyond its greatest expectation and live a dream come true, it would be Merge Records. Originally created in 1989 by Superchunk members, Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance, the label was an easy way to release their own music and a few other records by friends.
20 years later, they’ve got fans all around the world from hipsters in dive bars to booking agents for famous venues to Billboard Executives. Their name first gained worldwide recognition when both Arcade Fire albums made it onto the top of the Billboard charts, but they’ve gained an incredible amount of musicians we all love such as Spoon, Camera Obscura, Neutral Milk Hotel and more since then.
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 6:31PM - By Seraphina L.
Although we couldn’t have been happier to experience M. Ward as the “him” in She & Him, he is back with a solo album again. The album, Hold TIme, drops February 17th via Merge Records and he’s completely prepared too. He already has a music video for the title track.
Check it out below!
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Monday, October 27, 2008 5:07PM - By Kevin
Bands from the indie elite are lining up to pay tribute to 20 years of Merge Records.
Merge Records is offering a series of 14 compilation records in 2009 curated by bands, actors, comics and other celebrities including Peter Buck of R.E.M., The Upright Citizens Brigade, Amy Poehler, David Byrne and Zach Galifianakis. The series is available via subsrciption on Merge Records website and the releases will be mailed throughout 2009.
The subscription will set you back $179 before November 8 and $199 after. The proceeds will benefit charities picked by the curators of the compilation albums.
In addition to the series, a subscription will also include The Merge Covers Album and The Merge Remix Album. The Covers Album will feature artists like Death Cab For Cutie, Bright Eyes, Ryan Adams, The Apples In Stereo and others covering their favorite songs from the Merge catalog. The Remix Album, obviously enough, will feature remixes of Merge favorites by Battles, Caribou and Junior Boys among others.
Check out the lists of artists involved in the two albums after the break.
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