Seattle’s indie sensation Telekinesis (Michael Benjamin Lerner and his live band) released their Parallel Seismic Conspiracies EP today on Merge Records. The group also kicked off a co-headlining tour with Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Tour dates and a music video for the new song “Dirty Thing” after the jump. Read more…
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Indie favorites Arcade Fire have announced that they will stream their August 5 Madison Square Garden performance live on Youtube. The band’s third album, The Suburbs, will be released on Merge Records on August 2 in the U.K. and August 3 in the U.S. Click “read more” to watch a promo video for the band’s live MSG stream. Read more…
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Arcade Fire has announced tour dates in support of their forthcoming album, The Suburbs, out August 2nd via Merge Records. The tour will hit cities throughout the country, with some dates featuring Spoon as the opening act. Read more…
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Canadians and indie rock all-stars Arcade Fire (Merge Records) have been plastered all over the headlines for a couple weeks now, and it doesn’t appear it’ll stop anytime soon – the band is streaming two more tracks from their upcoming LP The Suburbs. Read more…
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It’ll be August before Arcade Fire’s (Merge Records) unfathomably anticipated new album The Suburbs is released, but the band isn’t resting on its haunches. Prepping for a lengthy summer tour, the band recently played a show at a “dusty, crumbling mansion” for 50 people in Montreal.
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Super-duo She and Him (Merge Records) return on March 23rd with their sophomore album Volume Two, and the band – which consists of actress Zooey Deschanel and indie rock staple M. Ward – have released a video for the album’s first single, “In The Sun.” Read more…
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Merge Records has announced that Sweden’s Shout Out Louds will be releasing their new record, Work, on February 23. This is the band’s third album and the second to be released with their current label. Work was recorded in Seattle and produced by Phil Ek (The Shins, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses). Read more…
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Merge Records Anniversary Celebrations presents a Visual Discography of their first 20 years.
They’ve accomplished a sold out festival, a sold out subscription box set, and a behind-the-scenes look. Now they are putting out The Merge Records Companion: A Visual Discography of the First Twenty Years.
Merge Records presents a 350-page limited-edition paperback book. This cd-sized volume includes photographs of every 7-inch album, EP and DVD (plus two cassettes!) they’ve released over the past twenty years. For design fans, there are more than 300 photos showing the creations of their album cover design over the past two decades. For music history buffs, the founders of the label, Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance include personal essays about their early days when they had to prepare album covers themselves. The proceeds of this limited-edition and all proceeds will benefit the charities chosen by the fourteen Score! curators.
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