Merge Records Announces 35th Anniversary Festival Lineup

Every five years, Merge Records, one of the greatest independent record labels of all time, throws itself a festival in its home base of North Carolina. Merge was founded in 1989, the same summer label founders Mac MacCaughan and Laura Ballance started Superchunk. (They came up with the name for the label while driving from legendary Sub Pop Lame Fest in Seattle — read their great 2009 label history Our Noise for more such factoids!) That means we’re up to 35 years of the label that gave ...

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