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 ...

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, ...

"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 ...

Merge Records turns 30 this year and they’re celebrating three decades as an independent label with the MRG30 festival this summer, taking place July 24–27 in Carrboro and Durham, NC. The initial ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Listen 7:21 The story of Merge Records ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1987, 19-year-old Mac McCaughan and his bandmates stumbled on an idea as old as rock 'n' roll itself. Rather than sending demo tapes to major record companies, they followed in the do ...

Merge Records celebrates its 25th birthday this week with a series of great shows throughout Carrboro and Durham, North Carolina. It kicked off yesterday with Lambchop playing all of its album Nixon, ...