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The Clean announce US tour dates!

August 25, 2010 – 4:17 pm

The Clean will return to the US in September to play some shows! David, Hamish & Robert will kick off their tour at Maxwell’s in Hoboken and then head west giving lucky fans an all-too-rare chance to see them play live!

The Clean’s latest release Mister Pop is available along with other great selections from their catalog in the Merge store.

The Clean on tour:
Sep 29 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s
Sep 30 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
Oct 04 San Francisco, CA The Independent
Oct 05 Portland, OR Holocene

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Arcade Fire live stream the MSG show

July 20, 2010 – 5:58 pm

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Lambchop on Daytrotter

May 6, 2010 – 5:24 pm

illustration by Johnnie Cluney

Daytrotter took a trip to Nashville a while back and invited Lambchop to play a session at Signal Path studios for them. The results are lovely! Visit Daytrotter.com to stream and download songs from the session.

Video and audio of Lambchop’s transcendent performance at XX Merge is available for digital download in the Merge store.

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Lambchop Live at XX Merge screening at New York’s 92Y

March 25, 2010 – 1:29 pm

To help celebrate Merge’s 20th Anniversary, Lambchop showed up in one of their largest lineups in recent memory — 11-strong, including multiple guitars, keyboards, piano, and a horn section. Lambchop performing live is always a powerful proposition, but on this night they started quietly with “I Will Drive Slowly” from their first album (I Hope You’re Sitting Down) and accelerated from there, each song seemingly faster and more intensely played than the last, building to a furious finale of “Up With People” and an epic “Give It.” By the end of their set, everyone in the packed Cat’s Cradle – band and audience both – was levitating a few inches off the ground.

Join the 92Y Tribeca (200 Hudson St.) in New York City on Wednesday, March 31 for a special screening of the concert film, with a Q&A moderated by Anna Thorngate, an assistant editor at the Criterion Collection. The concert film will be preceded by Buttons, a 7 minute short film featuring Kurt Wagner playing a song at Friendly Barber Shop in Carrboro, NC.

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Spoon – “Transference” out now! Perform on The Tonight Show!

January 19, 2010 – 12:04 pm

Spoon’s eagerly anticipated new album, Transference, is available in stores and at your favorite digital music outlet today!

You can order your copy of Transference on CD, 180-gram vinyl LP (with digital download coupon) and digital download in the Merge store now! And don’t forget to order the limited edition “Written in Reverse” 7-inch on pink vinyl featuring non-album B-side “Mean Red Spider,” too!

There are a multitude of release-week activities planned in Los Angeles, New York, and Austin. Visit spoontheband.com or follow Spoon on Twitter for updates and opportunities to celebrate the release of Transference with the band!

Also, Spoon has announced their spring North American tour. The dates kick off with a March 17th headlining appearance at Stubb’s in Austin as part of the annual South by Southwest conference, and include the band’s first-ever headline engagement at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

Tonight!
Spoon on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on NBC at 11:35 p.m. EST

Wednesday, Jan. 20
Spoon on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic—streaming live beginning at 11:15 a.m. PST / 2:15 p.m. EST

Thursday, Jan 21
Spoon play live at the Mercury Lounge in NYC. Password: Transference

Saturday, Jan. 23
Britt Daniel solo at Sound Fix in Brooklyn at 7 p.m. EST

Monday, Jan. 25
Spoon on KGSR 93.3 FM in Austin at 12 p.m. CST
Spoon performance at Waterloo Records in Austin at 4 p.m. CST

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American Music Club on KEXP – Saturday, 9/19!

September 18, 2009 – 2:23 pm

American Music Club at XX Merge. Photo by Brian Vetter

Mark Eitzel & pianist Marc Capelle will visit KEXP tomorrow while they’re in Seattle for a live session on air! You can listen at 1pm pacific time at KEXP.org or on the airwaves if you’re lucky enough to live in Seattle.

Mark Eitzel performs American Music Club:
09.19.2009 Seattle, WA Triple Door
09.20.2009 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
09.24.2009 San Francisco, CA Red Devil Lounge

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Telekinesis on WKNC TODAY!

September 14, 2009 – 3:48 pm

The Telekinesis rock invasion of Raleigh continues today as Michael Benjamin Lerner & friends play live on WKNC! Tune in around 6:15pm (Eastern Time) to catch the set & interview, then come by Tir Na Nog in Raleigh for a FREE show tonight around 10pm!

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M. Ward concert on NPR!

September 10, 2009 – 5:09 pm

You can now listen to the entire M. Ward concert recorded at the 9:30 Club July 30th by NPR!

Visit NPR Music to listen to the show!

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Destroyer performs as part of Wordless Music series

August 19, 2009 – 6:03 pm

Destroyer joined by Loscil will perform a rare collaborative set of original music from each artist’s catalog as part of the Wordless Music series at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University in New York on September 12th.

Wordless Music is a series of performances devoted to the idea that the sound worlds of classical and contemporary instrumental music — in genres such as indie rock and electronica — share more in common than conventional thinking might suggest. Their goal is to bring audiences together, and to introduce listeners from both worlds to composers that they might otherwise not encounter, for a completely new concert experience.

Wordless Music
September 12, 2009
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
2960 Broadway (at 116th Street)

DESTROYER
LOSCIL
JACK QUARTET

Doors open at 7:30pm, show at 8pm. Tickets on sale via the Miller Theatre box office and Web site.

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Spoon releases “Live at Stubb’s!”

July 31, 2009 – 3:12 pm

spoonfest Earlier this month, Spoon returned to their hometown, Austin, TX to commandeer Stubbs Amphitheater for SPOONX3. The band played three consecutive sold-out nights, and debuted material from their forthcoming new album.

Long-time Spoon sound engineer Hot Pockets mixed multi-track HD recordings of each of the three shows, and they are now available as MP3 or FLAC downloads in the Spoon store.

Get Spoon’s new single, “Got Nuffin’” on CD and digital download now in the Merge store. Preorder your limited edition copy of the “Got Nuffin” 12″ vinyl, too!

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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]

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

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]

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]

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]

Merge Records

The Clean announce US tour dates!

Arcade Fire live stream the MSG show

Lambchop on Daytrotter

Lambchop Live at XX Merge screening at New York’s 92Y

Spoon – “Transference” out now! Perform on The Tonight Show!

American Music Club on KEXP – Saturday, 9/19!

Telekinesis on WKNC TODAY!

M. Ward concert on NPR!

Destroyer performs as part of Wordless Music series

Spoon releases “Live at Stubb’s!”

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Let's Wrestle [+]

The Love Language [+]

Conor Oberst [+]

Polvo [+]

Radar Bros. [+]

The Rosebuds [+]

Shark Quest [+]

She & Him [+]

Spoon [+]

Superchunk [+]

Teenage Fanclub [+]

Telekinesis [+]

Versus [+]

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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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

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

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

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]

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]

October
09	Carrboro, NC	Carrboro ArtsCenter

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]

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]