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Arcade Fire “The Suburbs” Deluxe release-week giveaways!

July 29, 2011 – 3:06 pm

Celebrating of the one-year anniversary of The Suburbs in August, Merge will release The Suburbs Deluxe on Tuesday, August 2! A select group of independent record stores are helping to share the excitement with a series of special giveaways during release week. Visit these stores for the chance to get your hands on a poster, CD or LP personally autographed by Arcade Fire!

Amoeba – Los Angeles, CA
Bull Moose – Portland, ME
Cactus Music – Houston, TX
Criminal Records – Atlanta, GA
Dearborn Music – Dearborn, MI
Disc Exchange – Knoxville, TN
Ear X-Tacy – Louisville, KY
Earshot – Greenville, SC
Easy Street – Seattle, WA
Electric Fetus – Minneapolis, MN
Fingerprints – Long Beach, CA
Galaxy – Hamilton, OH
Good Records – Dallas, TX
Graywhale – Taylorsville, UT
Grimey’s – Nashville, TN
Love Garden – Lawrence, KS
Magnolia Thunderpussy Records – Columbus, OH
Main Street Music – Manayunk, PA
Monster – Charleston, SC
Music Millennium – Portland, OR
Music Saves – Cleveland, OH
Other Music – New York, NY
Park Ave CD – Orlando, FL
Record Exchange – Boise, ID
Repo Music – Philadelphia, PA
Mad Platter – Claremont, CA
Schoolkids Records – Raleigh, NC
Sonic Boom – Seattle, WA
Sound Fix – Brooklyn, NY
Sound Garden – Baltimore, MD
Strictly Discs – Madison, WI
Twist & Shout – Denver, CO
Vintage Vinyl – St. Louis, MO
ZIA Records – Phoenix, AZ

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Times New Viking play for Terre T

July 28, 2011 – 2:39 pm

Times New Viking visited WFMU’s Cherry Blossom Clinic for a special set with Terre T! The session is now archived online. Visit WFMU.org to listen!

Dirty Laundry also stopped by the Satellite for an interview with the band while they were in LA. View it here.

Dancer Equired is in stores & available online now!

On tour:
Sept 08 Atlanta, GA Buckhead Theatre w/ Superchunk
Sept 10 Raleigh, NC Hopscotch Music Festival

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Amor de Días plays a Session from the Box

July 27, 2011 – 11:00 am

Alasdair, Lupe & Heather stopped by Sessions from the Box while they were in the US earlier this year. The session is now online! Give it a listen, and order Street of the Love of Days in the Merge store now.

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The Rosebuds in-store performance in Madison today!

July 21, 2011 – 2:30 am

The Rosebuds will appear at Strictly Discs in Madison, WI, at 5PM today to play some songs off their new album Loud Planes Fly Low. Admission to the in-store performance is free but limited to the first 40 people, so get there early! The store will be giving away a pair of tickets to their show with Bon Iver. The Rosebuds also play tonight at UW Memorial Union Terrace with Other Lives.

Loud Planes Fly Low is available now on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store.

See The Rosebuds on tour:
$ with Other Lives
# with Bon Iver
Jul 21 Madison WI UW Union Terrace $
Jul 22 Milwaukee WI Riverside Theater #
Jul 23 Milwaukee WI Riverside Theater #
Jul 24 Chicago IL Chicago Theatre #
Jul 25 Indianapolis IN Murat Theatre #
Jul 27 Nashville TN Ryman Auditorium #
Jul 28 Atlanta GA Cobb Energy PAC #
Jul 29 Raleigh NC Raleigh Amphitheater #
Jul 30 Richmond VA The National #
Aug 1 Washington DC 9:30 Club #
Aug 2 Washington DC 9:30 Club #
Aug 3 Upper Darby PA Tower Theatre #
Aug 5 Boston MA House of Blues #
Aug 6 Holyoke MA Mountain Park #
Aug 8 Toronto ON The Sound Academy #
Aug 9 New York NY United Palace Theatre #
Aug 10 Brooklyn NY Celebrate Brooklyn! #

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Jon Wurster rates Pitchfork Fest

July 20, 2011 – 3:53 pm

Jon Wurster acted as guest correspondent for WBEZ at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival, investigating tour riders, stage outfits, and Porta-Potties.

Meanwhile, Mac stopped by XRT’s air-conditioned backstage tent to talk to Marty! Watch the interview at 93XRT.

And Matt LeMay wrote up key points of the band’s set at Pitchfork:

Set highlight: “Detroit Has a Skyline”
Time before Mac and Laura started pogoing: < 1 minute
Unexpected moment of audience exuberance: The opening of “Like a Fool”
Average age of audience members freaking out during “Slack Motherfucker”: Younger than you might think
Song from new album that deserves “instant classic” status as a live cut: “My Gap Feels Weird”
Sport defended by Mac McCaughan: Soccer
Most frequently overheard remark: “Wow, this band is good.”
Best song of all time, ever: “Hyper Enough”
–Matt LeMay

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Wye Oak performs “Holy Holy” on Jimmy Fallon!

July 19, 2011 – 11:17 am

Order Civilian on CD, LP or digital in the Merge Store!

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Archers of Loaf make a playlist for Spin!

July 6, 2011 – 2:18 pm

Eric Bachmann recently made a playlist of his new favorite artists for Spin Magazine. You can read about his picks here. And if you missed the band’s amazing performance on Jimmy Fallon, both videos are on our blog now!

Prefix Magazine argues that Icky Mettle is the Perfect ’90s Rock Record in this piece written by Matthew Fiander:

This is about representing a time and place, capturing just what made this sound and this period in a particular subset of rock music so damn compelling. Icky Mettle does all that not by sounding like every other record from the time, but by establishing its own unique, blaring fuzz that hits not just with volume, but with a rare force.

Re-mastered by Bob Weston and featuring new liner notes by Robert Christgau, Icky Mettle will come with bonus material including the entire Archers of Loaf vs. The Greatest of All Time EP as well as singles and b-sides from the Icky Mettle era. It will be available in stores beginning August 2 on CD, limited-edition blue vinyl and digital download. Reissues of Vee Vee, All the Nation’s Airports and White Trash Heroes will follow next year.

Download “What Did You Expect” from an out-of-print Merge 7-inch included on the Icky Mettle reissue

Archers of Loaf on tour:
July 08 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
July 09 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
July 22 Atlanta, GA The Earl
July 23 Atlanta, GA The Earl
July 24 Atlanta, GA The Earl
Aug 05 Washington, DC Black Cat
Aug 06 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero Theatre
Aug 19 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
Aug 20 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
Sept 02 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Sept 03 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Sept 08 Portland, OR Musicfest NW – Crystal Ballroom
Sept 09 Seattle, WA Neumo’s
Dec 09 Minehead, UK Butlin’s Holiday Center – ATP’s Nightmare Before Christmas

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Gary from the Ladybug Transistor plays “Oh Cristina!” live in Spain!

July 5, 2011 – 10:45 am

Gary from The Ladybug Transistor was recently on a solo tour of Spain and performed “Oh Cristina!” from Clutching Stems on a Spanish beach with help on guitar from Darren Hanlon.

The Ladybug Transistor are currently on tour and will celebrate the release of Clutching Stems in their hometown of Brooklyn at the Knitting Factory on July 6!

Order Clutching Stems now on CD or digital download in the Merge store.

The Ladybug Transistor on tour:
July 06 Brooklyn, NY – Knitting Factory
July 07 Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Museum of Art Sculpture Court
July 08 Kalamazoo, MI – The Strutt
July 09 Madison, WI – UW Madison Union Terrace
July 10 Chicago, IL – Schuba’s
July 11 North Manchester, IN – The Firehouse (FREE SHOW!)
July 12 Cincinnati, OH – Mayday (FREE SHOW!)
July 15 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
July 16 Raleigh, NC – Kings Barcade
July 17 Charlottesville, VA – The Southern
Sept 06 Los Angeles, CA – Satellite
Sept 07 Santa Barbara, CA – Muddy Waters
Sept 08 San Francisco – the Hemlock Tavern
Sept 09 Portland, OR – Musicfest NW
Sept 10 Seattle, WA – The Comet Tavern