'Celebrating several years of making records.' Prolific Seattle label. New releases by Rev. Horton Heat, Blue Rags, Sebadoh, Combustible Edison. Catalog of 400+
Artists include Belle & Sebastian, Brightblack Morning Light, Cat Power, Chavez, Jennifer O'Connor, Matmos, Mission of Burma, Pavement, Pretty Girls Make Graves, and Yo La Tengo.
Merge Records was started in the summer of 1989, by Laura Ballance & Mac McCaughan, the same summer they formed the band Superchunk in Chapel Hill, NC. The first couple releases were cassettes (remember those?), by WWAX and Bricks, followed...
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