Today, M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger is sharing “Watching the Wires” and “Everybody Needs Somebody,” his first new music of 2019. Both songs were recorded in Durham, NC and...
The ferocious and anthemic “Rainbow Shiner” is what Ex Hex’s Betsy Wright describes as “a victory song about the power and love of music” Her mordacious central riff is coupled...
Everything is falling apart. But instead of just idly waiting for the end of their lives, or life on earth, or the end of the universe—whichever of those comes first—Teenage...
As we do every five years, Merge Records will celebrate its birthday with a summer music festival in North Carolina. MRG30 will take place July 24–27 with an amazing line-up...
Apex Manor returns to the road this spring for a string of Midwest dates supporting Strand of Oaks, ahead of a new album arriving in 2019! Given their mutual love...
Michael Benjamin Lerner, a.k.a. Telekinesis, has internalized the science of catchiness and understands on a cellular level what makes certain kinds of songs evoke certain kinds of chemical reactions. Director...
Last summer, we welcomed The Love Language back with their latest masterpiece Baby Grand, an album that left Pitchfork describing the band’s ringleader Stuart McLamb as “one of the most...
