Articles tagged "merge records"

Mixed Media

Various Artists - SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: THE REMIXES! (new album / stream / videos)

by Tyler Gould

[25.Sep.09] :. Various Artists SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: THE REMIXES! (Merge) Releasing: 17 November This, the latest addition to the Merge Records 20-year celebration (the covers album came out in...

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Books Review

Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small by John Cook

by Evan Sawdey

[11.Sep.09] :. Despite some generous editorializing, Our Noise is as engaging (and human) a music industry tale as you're ever going to read.

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Music Feature

Band of the Year: An Interview with Arcade Fire

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[5.Mar.07] :. The artistic license offered by an indie label led to the darker and more ambitious Neon Bible. It brims with arrangements that include a symphony orchestra and a choir recorded in Budapest, Hungary, and a massive church organ. "It felt sometimes like we were making a film rather than a record," Win Butler says.

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Music Feature

Just Making Records: An Interview with Portastatic

by Jon Langmead

[13.Oct.06] :. Mac McCaughan creates string charts and listens to tropicalia while running Merge Records, and he doesn't mind if you haven't listened to Superchunk.

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