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The Story Of Merge Records, The Indie Label That Got Big And Stayed Small
Algonquin Books
September 2009
On Sale: September 15, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 1565126246
EAN: 9781565126244
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Merge Records defies everything you’ve heard about the music
business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Merge is
a lesson in how to make and market great music on a human
scale. The fact that the company is prospering in a failing
industry is something of a miracle. Yet two of their bands
made the Billboard Top 10 list; more than 1 million copies
of Arcade Fire's Neon Bible have been sold; Spoon has
appeared on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show; and
the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs is a contemporary
classic. In celebration of their twentieth anniversary,
founders Mac and Laura offer first-person accounts—with the
help of their colleagues and Merge artists—of their work,
their lives, and the culture of making music. Our Noise also
tells the behind-the-scenes stories of Arcade Fire, Spoon,
the Magnetic Fields, Superchunk, Lambchop, Neutral Milk
Hotel, and Butterglory. Hundreds of personal photos of the
bands, along with album cover art, concert posters, and
other memorabilia are included.
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