Articles about XX Merge

Festivals in Brief: Summer Camp, Pitchfork, XX Merge, ATP New York

By Alex Young on May 1st, 2009

Sled Island isn’t the only music festival making noise today. Let’s round up all the important info in today’s edition of CoS’ Festivals in Brief:
Summer Camp Music Festival:
With the festivities for this year’s Summer Camp Music Festival set to kick off in three weeks, organizers have put the finishing touches on the ‘09 bill with [...]

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 [...]