Articles about Merge Records

Merge looks to conquer the genre of influential indie bands from the 1990’s looking to come back in 2009

By Alex Young on June 4th, 2009

Merge Records gears up for new releases from two of the ’90s favorite music acts, Polvo and The Clean.

Stream: SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers

By Charles Poladian on April 9th, 2009

In case you haven’t heard by now, Merge Records is turning 20! Primarily forming as a place for Superchunk to release music, the North Carolina based taste makers have done good for themselves over the last two decades, shelling out works from a few folks you may have heard of: Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel, [...]

Merge Records celebrates its 20th; unveils lineup

By Michael Roffman on April 3rd, 2009

We all love Merge Records, right? Of course. After all, they’re responsible for putting out some of the best indie rock in the past twenty years (e.g. Neutral Milk Hotel, hello?), not to mention more recent acts Arcade Fire, Caribou, and M. Ward. To celebrate these feats, the label is throwing their own festival shin [...]