Let’s Wrestle were deemed “Best of What’s Next” by Paste Magazine. Watch the adorable video below of Wesley Patrick Gonzalez & Mike Lightning performing an acoustic version “I Won’t Lie to You.”
In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s is available on CD and digital download in the Merge store.
Let’s Wrestle have just two shows left of their US tour with Quasi:
4/30 – Newport, KY – Southgate House
5/1 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Radar Brothers will hit the road as a five-piece in June! Dates are being updated as they come in on their tour page.
Head to the band’s MySpace page for a new cover of Rufus Wainwright’s “Oh, What a World.”
As Spin described, the audience at our SXSW showcase was “smitten” as Radar Brothers played to a packed house. Get your copy of The Illustrated Garden on CD and digital download now in the Merge store!
Radar Brothers on tour
06.17.2010 San Diego, CA Soda Bar
06.18.2010 Santa Cruz, CA The Crepe Place
06.19.2010 Merced, CA The Partisan
06.21.2010 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
06.22.2010 Seattle, WA Sunset Tavern
06.24.2010 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop
Shout Out Louds are guest editors of MagnetMagazine.com this week in preparation for the kick off of their US tour this Sunday at the 9:30 Club in DC. Read the Q&A here and check back every day this week for new entries from Bebban, Carl, Ted, Adam & Eric!
Watch the mini-documentary, “Shout Out Louds … at Work,” and order Work on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store.
All shows with Freelance Whales:
02 May Washington, 9:30 Club
03 May Philadelphia, First Unitarian Church
05 May New York, Webster Hall
06 May Boston, Paradise
07 May Montreal, Cabaret Music Hall
08 May Toronto, Mod Club
10 May Chicago, Lincoln Hall
11 May Minneapolis, Varsity Theater
14 May Vancouver, Commodore Ballroom
15 May Seattle, Neumos
16 May Portland, Doug Fir
18 May San Francisco, Great American Music Hall
20 May Los Angeles, El Rey
21 May Los Angeles, El Rey (Sold Out!)
22 May San Diego, House of Blues
24 May Pomona, The Glass House
Aquarium Drunkard hosted Radar Brothers for a session at bassist Be Hussey’s Glendale, CA studio. The session will air on Sirius XM and you can stream it now!
Radar Brothers new album, The Illustrated Garden is available on CD and digital download in the Merge store, and they have tour dates coming soon!
Many of us here at Merge HQ have a long-running curiosity about/bemusement with our wonderful neighbors to the north: Canada. We’ve spent plenty of time getting to know our friends out in Vancouver, in Montreal, the native Ontarians, etc.
Today, the curtain was pulled back a little more.
This afternoon, I opened an email from friend-of-Merge Phil at Toronto-based digital provider Puretracks which contained one amazing sentence and a link. The line? “So I thought I would send you a video of me dancing in a mall this weekend for fun.” The link?:
A+, my friend.
Spoon finished off their North American tour with a stop at Jimmy Kimmel Live! Bradford Cox guests on guitar on “Who Makes Your Money,” and Stephen Patterson from White Rabbits on percussion! Pick up Transference at the Merge Store now!
Ron Liberti, graphic artist and frontman for Merge band Pipe, designed an awesome poster in celebration of Record Store Day. Hand-screened and limited to 100, you can get yours now at recordstoreday.com!
Tracey Thorn performed the first single from her forthcoming new album, Love and Its Opposite, at the piano, and it sounds amazing! Pre-order Love and Its Opposite in the Merge store now, and follow Tracey on twitter!
Snowed in while making a very summery record, filmmaker Jason Arthurs captured some of the fun and hard work behind the recording sessions that became Libraries.
The Village Voice cornered Mac & Laura backstage after Superchunk played their SXSW party to ask about SXSW memories, toilets and other fun stuff.
Matt & Zooey sat down with Dan Harris to talk about how She & Him got started and what music inspires them for ABC Amplified.
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