Merge Records

Merge Records
Founded	1989
Founder	Mac McCaughan Laura Ballance
Genre	Indie rock
Country of origin	United States
Location	Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Official website	http://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]

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
• 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
• Pipe
• Robert Pollard
• Polvo
• Portastatic
• pram
• Radar Bros.
• The Rock*A*Teens
• The Rosebuds
• Seaweed
• Shark Quest
• Shout Out Louds
• Spaceheads
• Spent
• Spoon
• Matt Suggs
• Superchunk
• Teenage Fanclub
• Tenement Halls
• The Third Eye Foundation
• Versus
• M. Ward
• White Whale

See also

• List of record labels
• Merge Records discography

External link

• Official site

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