Merge Records
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| Founded | 1989 |
| Founder | Mac McCaughan Laura Ballance |
| Genre | Indie rock |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Official website | www.mergerecords.com |
Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. Merge was originally founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989 as a way to release singles and cassettes from their band Superchunk, and music created by friends. The first Merge full-length release came on April 1, 1992 with MRG020 Superchunk - Tossing Seeds, the band's first collection of singles. The label's first album to reach the USA Billboard 200 was the Arcade Fire's Funeral.[1] Arcade Fire then gave the label its highest-charting release with their follow-up, Neon Bible, which debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200.[2]
[edit] Notable artists
- The 3Ds
- The 6ths
- American Music Club
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
- Arcade Fire
- Ashley Stove
- Lou Barlow
- Beatnik Filmstars
- Breadwinner
- The Broken West
- Richard Buckner
- Paul Burch
- Butterglory
- Buzzcocks
- Camera Obscura
- Caribou
- The Clean
- The Clientele
- Conor Oberst
- Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band
- Crooked Fingers
- Dan Bejar
- Destroyer
- Dinosaur Jr
- East River Pipe
- Matt Elliott
- The Essex Green
- Future Bible Heroes
- Ganger
- Guv'ner
- Annie Hayden
- Honor Role
- Imperial Teen
- The Karl Hendricks Trio
- David Kilgour
- The Ladybug Transistor
- Lambchop
- The Mad Scene
- The Magnetic Fields
- The Music Tapes
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Oakley Hall
- Conor Oberst
- Pipe
- Robert Pollard
- Polvo
- Portastatic
- pram
- Radar Bros.
- The Rock*A*Teens
- The Rosebuds
- Seaweed
- Shark Quest
- She and Him
- Shout Out Louds
- Spaceheads
- Spent
- Spoon
- Matt Suggs
- Superchunk
- Teenage Fanclub
- Tenement Halls
- The Third Eye Foundation
- Versus
- M. Ward
- White Whale
- Wye Oak
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