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Merge Records celebrating 25th Anniversary with festival, singles club & more

Merge 25

Merge Records is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and they are planning a year-long celebration the culmination of which will be the Merge Festival which will happen July 23-26 in the label’s hometown of Carrboro, NC. Line-up, tickets and other interesting details like those are still TBA, but you can watch a couple teaser videos below. (This will probably be one festival Outkast won’t be at, but you never know!) They last celebrated back in 2009 with XX Merge.

Additionally, you can subscribe to Merge’s “Or Thousands of Prizes” singles club where you get a new 7″ on colored vinyl every month featuring 25 of the label’s artists, including Superchunk, Mikal Cronin, Mount Moriah, The Mountain Goats, The Clientele, Destroyer, King Khan & the Shrines, Lambchop, and more. Subscribers will also get a collector’s box, t-shirt, a surprise bonus 12″ single, new E-book version of The Merge Records Companion and first crack at Merge Fest tickets. You can still buy in.

There’s also a Merge 25k road race on March 22 which runs from Chapel Hill to Durham and more fun stuff to be announced. They gave their website a nice redesign too. Looking good at a quarter century, Merge!

Merge Fest teaser videos below…