“There are also hazards associated with having a record label in your bedroom. The tape gun nearly killed me a few times.” Merge Records defies everything you’ve heard about the music business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Laura Ballance (quoted above) and Mac McCaughan, Merge is a lesson in how to make and market greatContinue reading
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MERGE . Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, I think it’s time that I can safely declare my love of holiday tunes. Last winter, I was belting, humming, and dancing along to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” by Leon Redbone and Zooey Deschanel well into February. This winter, theContinue reading
Arcade Fire, the indie-rock band that surprised everyone with its meteoric rise, releases its third CD, “The Suburbs,” today. The album is already receiving amazing reviews and attention, like this New York Times feature from this past weekend: “[Their songs] mingle the punky and the symphonic, the cryptic and the heart-on-sleeve, the self-doubting and theContinue reading