With fall officially here, that means that holiday albums will soon be proliferating the airwaves and storefronts. Merge will be releasing a new one from Tracey Thorn (formerly of Everything But The Girl) on Oct. 30 titled Tinsel and Lights—it will feature two originals and ten seasonal covers. Check it ...
New York’s Hospitality have a new 7-inch coming next month via Merge—Oct. 30, to be exact. It follows up their self-titled LP for the label released in January. Check it out here. ...
Music Tapes, featuring Julian Koster (Neutral Milk Hotel, the Olivia Tremor Control, Elephant 6 Collective) will be releasing their third album Mary’s Voice on Sept. 4 via Merge. It’s been described as: part one of a planned two-part album and inaugurates a newly active phase in The Music Tapes’ evolution—with plans ...
Redd Kross’ first album in 15 years, Researching The Blues, is officially due out tomorrow via Merge. For those of you who missed the party the first time around—and with that amount of passed time, there’s likely a lot of you—now’s a good a time as any to get into ...
Bob Mould, he of Hüsker Dü and Sugar fame, will be releasing a new solo record titled Silver Age on Sept. 4 via Merge. It’s his first since 2009’s Life and Times, and features drummer Jon Wurster (Superchunk, the Mountain Goats) and bassist Jason Narducy (Split Single, Verbow) as his ...
Merge is gearing up to reissue the final two full-lengths from Chapel Hill, N.C. heroes Archers of Loaf—1996’s All The Nations Airports and 1998’s White Trash Heroes—on Aug. 7. Both albums come on limited colored vinyl, with All The Nations Airports on clear vinyl and White Trash Heroes appropriately on ...
The Mountain Goats have made a new song titled “Cry For Judas” available for free download. It’s from their new album Transcendental Youth, due out Oct. 2 via Merge. Leader John Darnielle had this to say about the track, via press release: “Like a lot of the new album, this ...
Sugar, the band formed in 1992 by former Hüsker Dü vocalist Bob Mould, have reissued their entire catalog on vinyl via Merge Records. The Copper Blue/Beaster 2xLP packages both releases—the former a full-length, the latter an EP—and includes a download code for both, as well as downloads for rare B-sides ...
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