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Merge @ SXSW 2010

March 15, 2010 – 2:10 pm

Merge will be well-represented at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin this year with eight bands and two special Our Noise events. Our bands will be playing all over the city during the festival, so if you will be in Austin, keep your eyes peeled for all of the cool daytime parties being announced daily.

Our helpful flyer is below – click to make it larger & to print it to take with you! Share the link on your twitter & Facebook, too!

Spoon are headlining the NPR show at Stubbs BBQ on Wednesday, March 17 (12:15 am) and She & Him are playing a free, open to the public show at Auditorium Shores on Saturday March 20 (8 pm). Superchunk are playing a free Village Voice day party at La Zona Rosa on March 19 (3 pm).

Merge Showcase @ Cedar Street Courtyard
208 West 4th St b/t Colorado & Lavaca
Thursday, March 18th
7 PM
(from first to last)
Special Guest
Let’s Wrestle
Radar Brothers
She & Him
Wye Oak
Lou Barlow + the missingmen
The Love Language

Merge @ Homeslice Pizza’s “Music by the Slice” Party
1415 Congress Ave.
Free & Open to the public

Thursday, March 18:
1:30 pm The Love Language
2:15 pm Radar Brothers

Friday, March 19:
Noon Let’s Wrestle
3:45 Wye Oak
6:45 Lou Barlow

Also, book events!

Our Noise event @ Book People (603 N. Lamar Blvd)
Wednesday, March 17 at 6PM
Free & Open to the Public
Mac & Laura will read selections from their book, Our Noise, and will perform covers of songs from selected bands mentioned in the book. They’ll be available to sign books afterwards, too.

Our Noise panel @ SXSW Convention Center
Thursday, March 18 at 2PM
Open to convention registrants only
Michael Azerrad will moderate a Q&A-style event with Mac & Laura about Our Noise and 20 years of Merge Records.

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Music by the Slice + Merge @ SXSW 2010

March 1, 2010 – 5:54 pm

We have teamed up with our friends at Homeslice Pizza for their super-fun SXSW day parties on March 18th-20th called “Music by the Slice.” Totally free and open to the public! Come by, have some delicious pizza and see some great music!

Merge bands @ Music by the Slice!
Homeslice Pizza – 1415 S. Congress St. Austin, TX
Thursday:
1:30 The Love Language
2:15 Radar Brothers
Friday:
Noon Let’s Wrestle
3:45 Wye Oak
6:45 Lou Barlow

Full party line-up can be found here!

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The Love Language at Baeble Music’s Guest Apartment!

January 15, 2010 – 10:54 am

The Love Language visited The Guest Apartment while they were in New York last fall! Check out the video & interview at BaebleMusic.com.

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2009 Year End List: Stuart McLamb of The Love Language

December 14, 2009 – 1:37 pm

These are some of my favorite songs (in no particular order) from 2009. Rather than including all the blog favorites and hype bands of the year, I decided to put songs you most likely haven’t heard. All of the musicians are from NC as well. Hope you enjoy.

As a special holiday bonus, click to download Stu’s Street Hitz mixtape!

Track listing:
1. Floating Action- Don’t Stop (Loving Me Now)
2. Iyez- You Don’t Get It
3. Mrs.- Wet Am
4. Ryan Gustafson- Soul Train
5. Gross Ghost- Lurker
6. Soft Company- One Story Diamond
7. Spiderbags- Teenage Eyes
8. Veelee- Not Getting Nowhere
9. Tim Poovey- Spectacles
10. James Wallace- Night

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2009 Year End List: Missy Thangs of The Love Language

December 9, 2009 – 5:42 pm

hi. a top ten hottest dudes in 2009 indie buzz bands list:

1 king khan – king khan
2 wade oates – the virgins
3 fuck buttons – together. they tied: andrew hung + benjamin power
4 brian king – japandroids
5 mike lightning – let’s wrestle
6 devonte hynes – lightspeed champion
7 eugene hutz – gogol bordello
8 brent knopf – menomena
9 ed sharpe – ed sharpe and the magnetic zeros
10 patrick stickles– titus andronicus
+ stu is a contender, but i think it’s unfair to include him

The Love Language will play the Local 506 New Year’s Eve party in Chapel Hill! Their Merge debut will be released in 2010.

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The Love Language on Yours Truly

November 16, 2009 – 4:00 pm

http://www.vimeo.com/7645382

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The Love Language FREE tomorrow night in Raleigh

November 11, 2009 – 12:32 pm

http://www.vimeo.com/7500611

The Love Language – “Chesapeake” from Mann’s World on Vimeo.

Freshly minted Merge band, The Love Language played to a beyond capacity crowd at the Troika Music Festival last weekend at the Broad Street Cafe. Watch the video above, and visit Aquarium Drunkard to hear another great song from The Love Language’s self-titled debut released earlier this year.

And, if you missed the Troika show, never fear! The Love Language will play a free show in Raleigh tomorrow night (11/12) as part of the Red Bull Soundclash.

It’s Durham versus Raleigh, R&B versus indie-pop, as The Foreign Exchange and The Love Language prepare to give the Triangle a battle of the bands like you’ve never seen.

Red Bull Soundclash is a unique clash of sounds, style, and creativity, where two bands with totally different music backgrounds collaborate to create an innovative live music performance. Both groups will bring their own respective styles, a clash of The Foreign Exchange’s R&B melodies and The Love Language’s lo-fi indie-rock, as they perform a variety of different songs, some rehearsed and some improvised, to showcase their musical versatility. DJ Lord of Public Enemy will be spinning on the one’s and two’s while Kyle Santillian will serve as the event’s host. YOU, the audience, also participates in the back-and-forth interaction between the bands by judging each round with your applause!

Red Bull Soundclash is a FREE 18+ event taking place on November 12 on the streets of Raleigh at the intersection of North Street and Glenwood Avenue (next to The Hibernian Pub). Gates open at 7:00 p.m. and the show starts at 8:00 p.m.

For more information, visit redbullsoundclashusa.com

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Pipe and The Love Language at the Troika Music Festival this weekend!

November 6, 2009 – 3:47 pm

The annual Troika Music Festival is this weekend in Durham, NC. Merge bands Pipe & The Love Language are performing as well as many other local and national artists.

For a full schedule, tickets and venue information, visit the Troika website.

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Get to know The Love Language

October 2, 2009 – 1:11 pm

Photo by Michael Triplett

The LAist interviewed Stuart McLamb earlier this month. Give it a read and get to know Merge’s newest band, The Love Language!

Meet Stuart McLamb: The Brains Behind The Love Language

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Merge welcomes The Love Language

October 1, 2009 – 10:42 am

Chapel Hill’s The Love Language began in 2007 as lead singer and songwriter Stuart McLamb found himself living with his parents after a particularly disastrous break-up. He rented a storage space, borrowed some gear and started recording the album on a 4-track. He passed the songs around, and when he received an invitation from The Rosebuds to kick off their Life Like tour, he formed a band with six of his closest friends.

The Love Language’s self-titled debut was released in March of 2009 by Portland’s Bladen County Records to rave reviews. Several heralded performances at SXSW and the Monolith Festival and tours opening for Cursive, Rural Alberta Advantage, and Headlights have established Stuart as a songwriter to watch and The Love Language as a not-to-be-missed live band.

The Love Language are currently at work on their sophomore record which will be released on Merge Records in 2010. Stuart says, “As of yesterday I’ve overdrawn my bank account by $200, my girlfriend dumped me and my car won’t start. I think this Merge deal could be a real turning point.”

The Love Language will be at CMJ and have more tour dates planned through the end of 2009.

The Love Language is Stuart McLamb (electric guitar, vocals), Jordan McLamb (acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals), Junis Beefmonth (electric guitar, vocals), Missy Thangs (keyboard, vocals), Joshua Pope (bass guitar), Kate Thompson (organ) and Thomas Simpson (drum kit).

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April
17	Brooklyn, NY	Union Hall

April
19	Manchester	Deaf Institute
20	London	Corsica Studios
21	Amsterdam	Paradiso
22	Brussels	Beursschouwburg
23	Paris	Le Point Ephemere
[see all]

March
16	Madison, WI	High Noon Saloon
17	Chicago, IL	Lincoln Hall
18	Ann Arbor, MI	Blind Pig
19	Toronto, ON	The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
20	Montreal, QC	Il Motore
[see all]

March
18	Austin , TX	Cedar Street
21	El Paso, TX	Black Market
22	Scottsdale, AZ	Chyro Arts
23	Los Angeles, CA	Bootleg Theater
25	San Luis Obispo, CA	SLO Art Center
[see all]

April
02	Brooklyn, NY	Knitting Factory

Merge Records

Merge @ SXSW 2010

Music by the Slice + Merge @ SXSW 2010

The Love Language at Baeble Music’s Guest Apartment!

2009 Year End List: Stuart McLamb of The Love Language

2009 Year End List: Missy Thangs of The Love Language

The Love Language on Yours Truly

The Love Language FREE tomorrow night in Raleigh

Pipe and The Love Language at the Troika Music Festival this weekend!

Get to know The Love Language

Merge welcomes The Love Language

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Caribou [+]

The Clientele [+]

The Ladybug Transistor [+]

Let's Wrestle [+]

The Love Language [+]

Oakley Hall [+]

Radar Bros. [+]

The Rosebuds [+]

She & Him [+]

Shout Out Louds [+]

Spoon [+]

Superchunk [+]

Telekinesis [+]

Wye Oak [+]

March
16	Baton Rouge, LA	Red Star Bar
18	Austin, TX	Home Slice Pizza
18	Austin, TX	Cedar Street Courtyard
April
03	Harrisonburg, VA	Clementine Cafe'
15	Raleigh, NC	The Pour House
[see all]

March
19	Asheville, NC	UNCA Alumni Hall in Highsmith
20	Carrboro, NC	Cat's Cradle
May
08	Beaufort, NC	Beaufort Music Festival

March
25	Los Angeles, CA	El Rey Theatre
27	Savannah, GA	Trustees Theatre (Savannah Music Festival)
29	New York, NY	Bowery Ballroom
30	New York, NY	Bowery Ballroom
April
15	Pomona, CA	Glass House
[see all]

March
23	Rostock	MAU
24	Hamburg	Uebel & Gefahrlich
25	Berlin	Astra
26	Dresden	Reithalle
27	Munchen	Backstage Werk
[see all]

March
18	New Orleans, LA	Republic New Orleans
19	Birmingham, AL	Workplay Soundstage
20	Atlanta, GA	Tabernacle
22	Washington	9:30 Club
23	Washington	9:30 Club
[see all]

March
19	Austin, TX	La Zona Rosa
April
07	Toronto, ON	Royal Cinema
May
27	Barcelona	Primavera Sound
June
19	Denver, CO	Westword Music Festival

May
21	Eugene, OR	Sam Bond's Garage
24	Solana Beach, CA	Belly Up Tavern
25	Los Angeles, CA	Troubadour
27	San Francisco, CA	Great American Music Hall
29	Portland, OR	Wonder Ballroom
[see all]

March
24	Atlanta, GA	The Earl
25	Chapel Hill, NC	Local 506
26	Washington, DC	Rock and Roll Hotel
27	New York, NY	Bowery Ballroom
28	Philadelphia, PA	Johnny Brenda's
[see all]