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2011 Year End Lists: Britt Daniel, Spoon

Pj Harvey – Let England Shake
Dale Watson & The Texas Two  - The Sun Sessions
Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread
Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years
Cliff Martinez – Drive Soundtrack
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
Girls – Father Son Holy Ghost
Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer
Nurses – Dracula
Zoo Kid – “Out Getting Ribs”
Factory Floor – “Lying”

Spoon to take part in Tucson benefit album & appear at Austin music festival

Spoon will be contributing a song to the forthcoming benefit compilation Luz de Vida: A Compilation to Benefit the Victims of the Tucson Tragedy, which will be released on Fort Lowell Records on October 18. The other musicians on the album either hail from Tucson or have ties to the city and include Calexico, John Vanderslice, Robyn Hitchcock, and Neko Case, among many others.

All proceeds from the sale of Luz de Vida will go to the Tucson Together Fund, the only officially sanctioned fund established to assist victims, families, and witnesses of the January 8 shooting tragedy that occurred there. Read more about this worthwhile effort at musicagainstviolence.org.

In other Spoon-related news, the band has announced that it will be performing at Fun Fun Fun Fest on Saturday, November 5, at Auditorium Shores in Austin, TX. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to catch Spoon live in concert. Full-festival and single-day tickets are available here.

Pick up Spoon’s most recent full-length, Transference, or any of their previous releases in the Merge store today.

Spoon’s “Takeaway” show from Paris

Visit A Heart is a Spade for links to more songs!

2010 Holiday Bundles available in the Merge Holiday store!

Specially priced for this holiday season! Get more bang for your buck when you purchase these items together:

Spoon: Transference + “Written in Reverse” 7-inch

She & Him: Volume One + Volume Two (CD and LP)

Superchunk: Majesty Shredding + On the Mouth + No Pocky for Kitty (CD and LP)


Destroyer: reissues of City of Daughters + Thief + Streethawk: A Seduction (CD only)

Telekinesis: Parallel Seismic Conspiracies EP + Record Store Day 7-inch

The Love Language: Libraries + Record Store Day split 7-inch


Let’s Wrestle: In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s + Record Store Day split 7-inch


The Love Language/Let’s Wrestle + Telekinesis Record Store Day limited-edition 7-inches

Each full-length from Merge freshmen Telekinesis, Wye Oak, The Love Language, and Let’s Wrestle

All orders in the Merge store include free shipping and it’s not too late to use our Holiday Coupon and all orders over $150 get a free tote bag designed by The Clientele’s Alasdair Maclean!

Spoon premiere video for “Nobody Gets Me But You”

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Directed by Peter Simonite and edited by Daniel Gibbs, the video was shot in September at Cake Shop in New York City.

Transference is available on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store.

Stream The Mountain Goats & Spoon live from ACL

Watch and listen to streaming sets by The Mountain Goats & Spoon live at the Austin City Limits music festival in Austin, TX happening today! The Mountain Goats are on at 2PM CST / 3 PM EST and Spoon will play at 8PM CST / 9PM EST.

Click here to watch & listen!

Spoon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon!

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Spoon joined by Questlove & Owen Biddle from The Roots performed “Nobody Gets Me But You” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night.

See Spoon on tour! They are playing Madison Square Garden with Arcade Fire tonight & tomorrow night in NYC and will be at Lollapalooza this weekend.

Spoon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight!

Spoon are the musical guests tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon! Check your local listings for channel and airtime information and set those DVRs.

Spoon are currently joining Arcade Fire for a few dates and will continue to tour through the rest of the summer/fall in support of their latest release, Transference. Los Angeles fans will finally get to see Spoon on Sep 30 at the Palladium!  Tickets on sale now!

Visit spoontheband.com and follow the band on twitter, too!

Spoon on tour!
Aug 4 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden with Arcade Fire
Aug 5 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden with Arcade Fire
Aug 6 Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion with Arcade Fire
Aug 7 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
Aug 9 Columbus, OH – LC Pavilion Outdoor Amphitheatre
Aug 10 Covington, KY – Madison Theatre
Aug 11 Atlanta, GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with Arcade Fire
Sep 11 Harrisburg, PA – The Forum
Sep 12 Clark, NJ – Union County Music Festival
Sep 30 Los Angeles, CA – The Palladium with Cold Cave
Oct 1 San Diego, CA – SOMA
Oct 2 Las Vegas, NV – Matador’s 21
Oct 4 Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre with Dale Watson
Oct 5 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theatre with Dale Watson
Oct 6 El Paso, TX – Club 101 with Dale Watson
Oct 8  ACL Festival
Nov 10 Rockefeller, Oslo Norway
Nov 11 Tradgarn, Gothenburg Sweden
Nov 12 Vega, Copenhagen Denmark
Nov 13 Rolling Stone Weekender, Germany
Nov 15 Elysee Montmartre, Paris
Nov 16 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Nov 17 Cockpit, Leeds
Nov 18 Academy, Dublin, Ireland
Nov 20 Crossing Border Festival, The Hague Holland
Nov 21 Crossing Border Festival, Antwerp Belgium

Free Merge sampler at Amazon.com!

Spring has sprung and it is time for a new free Merge sampler! Featuring hit songs from the latest albums of Radar Brothers, Spoon, Let’s Wrestle, She & Him and more, visit amazon.com now to download all fourteen free songs with special cover art by Let’s Wrestle’s Wesley Patrick Gonzalez!

As always, you can find new albums from all of these artists and more in our handy Merge store.

Free Merge 2010 digital sampler track listing:
1. Radar Brothers – Horses Warriors (from The Illustrated Garden)
2. Let’s Wrestle – I Won’t Lie to You (from In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s)
3. Destroyer – The Very Modern Dance (from Streethawk: A Seduction)
4. Shout Out Louds – Fall Hard (from Work)
5. Spoon – Written in Reverse (from Transference)
6. Lou Barlow – Don’t Apologize (from Goodnight Unknown)
7. She & Him – Thieves (from Volume Two)
8. Superchunk – Learned to Surf (from Leaves in the Gutter)
9. Alec Bathgate – Glide (from Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox)
10. The Clientele – I Wonder Who We Are (from Bonfires on the Heath)
11. Caribou – Odessa (from Swim)
12. The Clean – In the Dreamlife U Need a Rubber Soul (from Mister Pop)
13. Wye Oak – I Hope You Die (from My Neighbor / My Creator)
14. Lambchop – Give It (from Live at XX Merge)

Spoon plays Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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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!

Spoon plays for Conan!

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Be a part of the crowd for Spoon at Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Sign up now for free tickets to see Spoon perform in Los Angeles on the outdoor stage at Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday, April 15! The performance will air later that night on ABC.

Spoon is currently on tour, and their new album Transference is available on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store.

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Archers of Loaf [+]

February
25 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
26 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
April
26 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
27 Cambridge, MA Middle East - Downstairs
28 Cambridge, MA Middle East - Downstairs
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Richard Buckner [+]

February
22 New Haven, CT BAR
24 Lexington, KY Cosmic Charlie's
25 Atlanta, GA Highland Inn Ballroom
27 Easton, MD The NightCat
March
02 Bayport, NY The Grey Horse Tavern
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Caribou [+]

April
17 Mexico City Foro Sol
18 Mexico City Foro Sol

Crooked Fingers [+]

February
29 Los Angeles, CA Hotel Cafe

Destroyer [+]

April
14 Indio, CA Coachella
21 Indio, CA Coachella

Eleanor Friedberger [+]

February
09 Seattle, WA The Crocodile

Hospitality [+]

February
25 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
26 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
29 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern
March
02 Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall
03 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
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Imperial Teen [+]

February
24 San Francisco, CA Cafe Du Nord
25 San Francisco, CA Amoeba Records

Lambchop [+]

February
23 Berlin Babylon
24 Berlin Babylon
25 Dresden Beatpol
26 Leipzig Werk II
27 Vienna Konzerthaus
[see all]

The Love Language [+]

March
09 Charlotte, NC Visulite Theatre
10 Savannah, GA Savannah Stopover at Ships of the Sea Museum
11 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
12 Baton Rouge, LA Red Star Bar
20 Birmingham, AL The Bottletree
[see all]

The Magnetic Fields [+]

March
06 Hudson, NY Helsinki Hudson
07 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
10 Minehead All Tomorrow's Parties curated by Jeff Mangum
18 Vancouver The Vogue
19 Seattle, WA Neptune Theatre
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Jeff Mangum [+]

February
08 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater
10 Athens, GA 40 Watt
11 Athens, GA 40 Watt
March
07 Dublin Vicar Street
09 Minehead ATP curated by Jeff Mangum
[see all]

the Mountain Goats [+]

March
09 Denton, TX 35 Denton
13 New York, NY Carnegie Hall
24 New York, NY Merkin Hall

Portastatic [+]

February
11 Chapel Hill, NC The Cave
18 Durham, NC Duke Coffeehouse
23 San Francisco, CA Swedish American Hall

Superchunk [+]

February
11 Chapel Hill, NC The Cave
18 Durham, NC Duke Coffeehouse
23 San Francisco, CA Swedish American Hall

Versus [+]

March
09 London The Lexington
April
10 Brooklyn, NY The Bell House

M. Ward [+]

March
20 London Leicester Square Theatre
21 Paris Le Zenith
22 Lyon Transbordeur
23 Lille Theatre Sebastopol
25 London Royal Albert Hall
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Wild Flag [+]

February
08 Berlin Lido
March
07 Perth The Bakery
09 Melbourne Corner Hotel
10 Victoria Golden Plains Festival
11 Brisbane The Zoo
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Wye Oak [+]

February
23 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
24 San Francisco, CA The Independent
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