Visit the Merge store for Merge hoodies and t-shirts for the whole family!
New chocolate brown tees for men, women and babies! Cherry red tees for toddlers and kids! Brown hoodies for all the grownups on your holidays list! Also, freshly reprinted Superchunk tees for men, women and toddlers!
All Merge wear is 100% cotton and made by American Apparel.
NPR’s Monitor Mix blog, helmed by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, hosted a label roundtable to discuss the role of the record label in today’s music industry. Mac joined the “chat via the internet” with label representatives from Kill Rock Stars, Secretly Canadian, Matador, and Saddle Creek.
Read the discussion and tell us what the role of the record label is for you!
Groovy-looking book for music geeks from Found Magazine’s Jason Bitner. Check out the magnificent contribution by The Magnetic Fields’ Claudia Gonson and stream the entire mix tape from her high school boyfriend, John, who – along with friend and bandmate Stephin Merritt – she thanks for her musical education.
Ask for it at your local bookstore.
From last week’s Our Noise reading at Housing Works in New York City:
Today on Converse.com, see Wye Oak play an acoustic version of “Take It In” from their new album, The Knot.
The Wye Oak video joins an ongoing series at Converse.com showcasing six Merge bands performing stripped-down sets somewhat spontaneously in various locations during the festival. Visit the XX Merge section of Converse.com for videos from Superchunk, The Clientele, Telekinesis, Lou Barlow, and now Wye Oak.
Check back next week for the next clip in this series of unique sessions courtesy of Converse.com. And don’t forget to check out the Merge channel at Babelgum for live footage from the XX Merge shows held July 22-26th at the Cat’s Cradle and Memorial Hall.
The Clean’s new album, Mister Pop was released earlier this month to universal praise. Robert, Hamish, and David sent us a few live performance videos from late 2007 and a collection of vintage interview footage.
Watch all five and share them with your friends at The Clean’s Vimeo page. Mister Pop is available on CD and digital download in the Merge store.
“These guys invented guitar-organ grooves back in the 1980′s – lean, propulsive, intense, intoning the mantra.”
~ Rolling Stone
Pitchfork has the new video for “One Machine, One Long Fight” today! As always, you can watch past weeks’ videos at LooTube!
Goodnight Unknown is in stores on October 6!
Richard Buckner is on the road again, and is stopping in at KDHX in St. Louis tonight. You can listen to a session tonight, 9pm central, at KDHX.org.
Catch him on the road:
09.22.2009 St. Louis, MO Billiken Club at SLU
09.23.2009 Little Rock, AR Juanita’s
09.25.2009 Orlando, FL The Social
09.26.2009 St. Augustine, FL Cafe Eleven
09.27.2009 Columbia, SC The Whig
09.28.2009 Mt. Pleasant, SC Village Tavern
09.29.2009 Atlanta, GA The Earl
09.30.2009 Charlotte, NC The Evening Muse
10.01.2009 Winston-Salem, NC The Garage
10.02.2009 Asheville, NC The Grey Eagle
10.03.2009 Hickory, NC Fanjoy-Labrenz Gallery
Photos at Chromewaves!
Go to Spoon’s website this week to download four mp3s in honor of the deluxe digital releases of classic Spoon albums: Telephono/Soft Effects, A Series of Sneaks, Girls Can Tell, and Kill The Moonlight. “Get Out of The State,” “Metal Detektor,” “Chicago at Night,” and “Paper Tiger” are all up for free download!
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!
Stream full-length songs (at random) from our entire catalog.
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