Merge Records, the Chapel Hill-based independent label founded by Superchunk‘s Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989, has formed a partnership with the Secretly Group who own Secretly Canadian, ...

If you're lucky, you're in Chapel Hill, N.C., right now. Why? Because that's where Merge Records is celebrating Merge XX, the label's 20th-anniversary celebration. Don't know about Merge? Well, if you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a move that sees two of the most important and influential American indie music companies joining forces, Secretly Group has ...

With its new partnership with Secretly Group, Merge Records hopes it can better serve its artists. "Merge artists already know our enthusiasm and love for their music and what they're doing," Merge ...

If you’ve ever publicly debated Polvo’s early Merge Records output versus its later albums for Touch & Go; if you already know that Neutral Milk Hotel will soon release its first song since issuing a ...

Last week, Ian Svenonius (of The Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, Chain and the Gang, and other acts) released a statement in the wake of the shutdown of Burger Records amid allegations of sexual ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the summer of 1989, Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance road-tripped with a crew of ...

Secretly Group has acquired a 50% stake in Merge Records, the influential indie label that released classic albums by the likes of Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, the Magnetic Fields, and Arcade Fire. The ...

The deal merges two of the most influential record companies in indie music. By Ethan Millman Music Editor Talk about a “merger.” Secretly Group, the indie label group whose companies include Dead ...

Indie workhorse Merge Records turns out seminal acts—M Ward, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, and The Arcade Fire, for starters—like Kanye hits the caps lock. They’re in NYC tonight to read from a book (Our ...