If you’ve ever publicly debated Polvo’s early Merge Records output versus its later albums for Touch & Go; if you already know that Neutral Milk Hotel will soon release its first song since issuing a ...

In a move that sees two of the most important and influential American indie music companies joining forces, Secretly Group has announced a new partnership with Merge Records that sees Secretly ...

Merge Records, the Chapel Hill-based independent label founded by Superchunk‘s Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989, has formed a partnership with the Secretly Group who own Secretly Canadian, ...

If you're lucky, you're in Chapel Hill, N.C., right now. Why? Because that's where Merge Records is celebrating Merge XX, the label's 20th-anniversary celebration. Don't know about Merge? Well, if you ...

The oral history Please Kill Me has to be the seminal document of punk music. Compiled from hundreds of interviews with punk legends, also-rans and hangers-on, it portrayed the culture as it was lived ...

Merge Records is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and they are planning a year-long celebration the culmination of which will be the Merge Festival which will happen July 23-26 in the ...

With its new partnership with Secretly Group, Merge Records hopes it can better serve its artists. "Merge artists already know our enthusiasm and love for their music and what they're doing," Merge ...

Indie workhorse Merge Records turns out seminal acts—M Ward, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, and The Arcade Fire, for starters—like Kanye hits the caps lock. They’re in NYC tonight to read from a book (Our ...

"We are not just fans of the music they've released, but their independent ethos and commitment to being an artist-first company," says Secretly co-founder Phil Waldorf. By Tyler Jenke Secretly Group ...

It’s surprisingly quiet inside the Merge Records office in downtown Durham. On the ground floor, interns fold T-shirts. The basement is empty of people, but filled with CDs, books, cassettes and floor ...