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updated XX Merge festival lineup & single day tickets

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The Music Tapes

Merge Records has updated the lineup for its 20th anniversary festival, XX Merge, taking place Wednesday, July 22 to Sunday, July 26 at North Carolina’s Cat’s Cradle and UNC’s Memorial Hall. Five-day passes for the fest are sold out, but Merge will be releasing individual night tickets on Wednesday, May 13th at 10am.

Ticket info and XX Merge’s updated lineup (with the Music Tapes and others) below…

Tickets:
Five-day passes are sold out, but a limited number of tickets for individual nights of the festival will be made available on Wednesday, May 13, at 10 AM EST through eTix.com. Tickets are $32 for each of the five nights. Beginning on May 13th, you may access eTix.com directly or via links from mergerecords.com/xxmerge and catscradle.com. Additionally, tickets for the Memorial Hall show will also be available at Cat’s Cradle, CD Alley (Chapel Hill), Schoolkids (Raleigh), and the Memorial Hall box office.

Bands

We will not be announcing line-ups for the Cat’s Cradle nights, but a (mostly) complete list of bands who will be performing is as follows:

Lou Barlow
The Broken West
Richard Buckner
The Clientele
Destroyer
Erectus Monotone
The Essex Green
Guv’ner
Imperial Teen
The Ladybug Transistor
Lambchop
The Magnetic Fields
The Music Tapes
Oakley Hall
Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band
Pipe
Polvo
Portastatic
Radar Bros.
The Rosebuds
Spent
Spoon
Matt Suggs
Superchunk
Telekinesis
Tenement Halls
Versus
M. Ward

Sunday, July 26, at Memorial Hall:

She & Him
American Music Club
Wye Oak