Merge Records

Swearin' announce first album for Merge, share "Grow into a Ghost"

Swearin’ are back from hiatus with their first album in five years and first for Merge. Related band Waxahatchee are also releasing a new EP on Merge this year.

Fucked Up sign to Merge for new album 'Dose Your Dreams,' share songs, touring

”Fucked Up have made their Screamadelica,” said Owen Pallett, of the first Fucked Up album in four years.

UK afro-funk band Ibibio Sound Machine covered Mountain Goats, playing shows

Earlier this year, British afro-funk band Ibibio Sound Machine released their second album and first for Merge Records, Uyai, and it’s gotten a nice amount of acclaim…

Downtown Boys sign to Sub Pop for new album, touring with Sneaks

Downtown Boys are working on their new album with Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto.

Allison Crutchfield on Swearin' breakup, Trump, & new LP (which is streaming)

Her new album is a departure from the gritty punk of past bands she’s been in, instead featuring catchy, dreamy pop songs that capture the time in her life post-Swearin’, which she describes as a “scrapbook of that time.”

John Darnielle's Top 10 of 2016 & more ++ a Merge Records Holiday Sale

The Mountain Goats frontman and author highlights a diverse list of 2016 releases from electronic to metal to hip hop and more.

Allison Crutchfield announces Merge debut, shares "Dean's Room"

The lead single is “Dean’s Room,” which, like Waxahatchee’s Merge debut, has Allison’s trademark style get a boost from some more layering and glossier studio production than she usually has. It was produced by Philly’s Jeff Zeigler, who’s also worked with Kurt Vile, The War on Drugs, Nothing, and more.

Allison Crutchfield signs to Merge, releasing debut album in 2017, touring with The Julie Ruin

Allison Crutchfield, who co-fronts Swearin’, drums in PS Eliot (who are reuniting), joins her sister Katie in the live Waxahatchee lineup, and has a solo EP out, has signed to Merge Records (also home of Waxahatchee)…

Polvo drummer Eddie Watkins, RIP

Sad indie rock news: Polvo drummer and founding member Eddie Watkins has died. Details about his death are unclear, but Merge Records co-owner (and Superchunk frontman) Mac McCaughan shared the news on the label’s Facebook: Stunned and saddened to hear of Eddie Watkins’ passing. It took a unique drummer to make those Polvo records & […]
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