Merge Records

About

About Merge Records

Merge Records was started in the summer of 1989, by Laura Ballance & Mac McCaughan, the same summer they formed the band Superchunk in Chapel Hill, NC. The first couple releases were cassettes (remember those?), by WWAX and Bricks, followed by the first Superchunk (then known only as "Chunk") 7-inch single.

The vinyl 7-inch was the format of choice for the first 3 years of the label, with cash borrowed from friends to finance projects (including singles from Erectus Monotone, Angels of Epistemology, and more Superchunk) and bedrooms serving as Merge HQ until 1992, when the first Merge full-length release, Tossing Seeds by Superchunk, was released on CD, LP, and cassette.

Since '92 Merge moved from one charming-yet-run-down office to another until 2001, when we finally made the move from Chapel Hill down the road to a fine old building all our own in historic Downtown Durham, NC.

In 2009 Merge Records is celebrating its 20th birthday, and while our roster has changed, rotated, permutated and expanded over the last 20 years, the quality we look for in records as fans is still there in the music we put out on Merge.

Thanks for listening!

Contacts

Mailorder Questions

See the FAQ, or email
Jay Lowe: mailorder@mergerecords.com

Radio

Lindsey Kronmiller: radio@mergerecords.com

National & Regional Press

Christina Rentz: christina@mergerecords.com

Retail

Jamie Beck: retail@mergerecords.com

Tv & Film Licensing

Bank Robber Music: info@bankrobbermusic.com

General Information

merge@mergerecords.com

Artist Booking Contacts

American Music Club - Todd Cote at Leafy Green Booking

And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Christian Bernhardt at The Agency Group Ltd.

Lou Barlow - Kevin French at Big Shot

Arcade Fire - David Viecelli at Billions

The Broken West - Kevin French at Big Shot

Richard Buckner - Andrew Colvin at Ground Control

Buzzcocks - Seth at The Agency

Camera Obscura - Jim Romeo at Ground Control

Caribou - Tom Windish at The Windish Agency

The Clean - Derek Becker at Satellite Booking

The Clientele - Eric Dimenstein at Ground Control

Conor Oberst - Eric Dimenstein at Ground Control

Crooked Fingers - Ali Hedrick at Billions

Destroyer - Ali Hedrick at Billions

The Essex Green - Tim Edwards at Flower Booking

Annie Hayden - Joe Cohen at Proletariat Touring

Imperial Teen - Steve Kaul at The Agency

David Kilgour - Derek Becker at Satellite Booking

The Ladybug Transistor - Erik Carter at Uncle Booking

Lambchop - Frank Riley at High Road

The Love Language - Jim Romeo at Ground Control

Magnetic Fields - Eric Selz at Red Ryder

Oakley Hall - Eric Dimenstein at Ground Control

Portastatic - Jim Romeo at Ground Control

Radar Bros - Tim Edwards at Flower Booking

The Rosebuds - Jim Romeo at Ground Control

She & Him - Eric Dimenstein at Ground Control

Shout Out Louds - Marty Diamond at Paradigm

Spoon - Sam Kirby at William Morris Agency

Telekinesis - Trey Many at Billions

Versus - Jim Romeo at Ground Control

M. Ward - Eric Dimenstein at Ground Control

White Whale - Christian Bernhardt at The Agency Group Ltd.

Wye Oak - Trey Many at Billions

Privacy/Security Policy

We do not and will not rent or sell or give your name, address, email address, credit card information or any personal information to any third party. We do not and will not share any customer information with outside parties who may wish to market their products to you.

We will only send you an e-mail if we have a question about your order or if you have signed up for our newsletter.

The mergerecords.com server uses SSL encryption for the checkout process. All personal information including your credit card number and email address are securely transmitted between your computer and the mergerecords.com server.

Your transaction is processed immediately, so your credit card number is never stored on any server. If you have any questions regarding privacy or security please email mailorder@mergerecords.com.

On Tour

Arcade Fire [+]

September
02 Bologna Arena Parco Nord
10 Mexico City Palacio de los Deportes
22 St. Paul, MN Roy Wilkins Auditorium
23 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
25 Saskatoon Credit Union Centre
[see all]

Lou Barlow [+]

September
02 Cambridge, MA Middle East
03 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's
04 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's

Richard Buckner [+]

September
07 Charlottesville, VA The Southern
08 Asheville, NC The Grey Eagle
09 Columbia, SC Columbia Museum of Art
10 Raleigh, NC Hopscotch Music Festival
11 Charlotte, NC Evening Muse
[see all]

Caribou [+]

September
14 Guelph, ON Ebar
15 Ottawa, ON Babylon
16 Montreal, QC Le National
17 Toronto, ON The Drake
17 Toronto, ON Phoenix Theatre
[see all]

The Clean [+]

September
28 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
29 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's
30 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
October
02 Lawrence, KS Granada Theater - SCION Festival
04 San Francisco, CA The Independent
[see all]

The Clientele [+]

September
06 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot
07 Portland, OR Doug Fir
09 Oakland, CA New Parish
10 San Francisco, CA Independent
11 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex
[see all]

Fucked Up [+]

September
05 Monticello, NY All Tomorrow's Parties
09 Washington, DC Rock n' Roll Hotel
10 Raleigh, NC Hopscotch Festival
11 Atlanta, GA The Drunken Unicorn
12 Charlotte, NC Amos Southend
[see all]

Lambchop [+]

November
11 Berlin Admiralspalast - 20 Years of City Slang
22 Katowice Ars Cameralis Festival
24 Zagreb Kino SC
25 Munich Amerikahaus
27 Copenhagen DR Concert House
[see all]

Let's Wrestle [+]

September
04 Los Angeles, CA FYF Fest
05 Santa Barbara, CA Club Mercy Presents
06 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
08 Seattle, WA Neumo's
09 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre
[see all]

The Love Language [+]

September
03 Atlanta, GA The Earl
03 Atlanta, GA Criminal Records
04 Charlotte, NC Visulite Theatre
09 Winston Salem, NC Earshot Records
09 Winston Salem, NC Krankies
[see all]

Conor Oberst [+]

September
28 Pioneertown, CA Pappy & Harriets
30 Santa Barbara, CA Soho in SB
October
01 Big Sur, CA Fernwood
02 San Francisco, CA Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Polvo [+]

November
05 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon
06 Houston, TX Fitzgerald's Downstairs
07 Austin, TX Fun Fun Fun Fest at Waterloo

Radar Bros. [+]

September
24 Montreal, QC Le National
25 Boston, MA Royale
27 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
28 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
October
01 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero Theatre
[see all]

The Rosebuds [+]

September
10 Raleigh, NC Hopscotch Festival

Shark Quest [+]

October
09 Carrboro, NC Carrboro ArtsCenter

She & Him [+]

September
05 Los Angeles, CA Paramount Studios
October
17 San Francisco, CA Treasure Island
22 Portland, OR Schnitzer Hall
23 Seattle, WA City Arts Music Festival - 5th Avenue Theatre
24 Vancouver, BC The Orpheum

Spoon [+]

September
11 Harrisburg, PA The Forum
12 Clark, NJ Oak Ridge Park
13 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
30 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium
October
01 San Diego, CA Soma
[see all]

Superchunk [+]

September
16 Durham, NC The Nasher Museum of Art
17 Washington 9:30 Club
18 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
19 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
21 Boston, MA Royale
[see all]

Teenage Fanclub [+]

September
22 Toronto, ON The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
23 Toronto, ON The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
24 Montreal, QC Le National
25 Boston, MA Royale
27 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
[see all]

Telekinesis [+]

September
02 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
03 Detroit, MI Magic Stick
04 Toronto, ON El Mocambo
06 Montreal, QC Casa Del Popolo
07 Cambridge, MA TT The Bear's
[see all]

Versus [+]

September
21 Boston, MA Royale
22 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero Theatre

Wye Oak [+]

September
02 Cambridge, MA Middle East
03 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's
04 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's
October
04 Lawrence, KS Bottleneck
05 Columbia, MO The Blue Note
[see all]
see all tour dates

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