Each month, Jivewired Radio and Jivewired.com will feature one indie record label and dedicate a block of music each Saturday showcasing the artists on the featured label. The featured indie label for December 2011 is Merge Records.
We will air a show every Saturday throughout the month of December that is exclusive to past and current artists in the Merge Records catalog. The show will air each Saturday from 2 PM to 8PM CDT on Jivewired Radio powered by Live365.
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This month we will be featuring the following songs and artists that have been a part of the Merge Records family, past and present. Songs will play randomly throughout the show.
01. Diamond Mine by David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights
02. Deep Sea Diving Suit by The Magnetic Fields
03. Chinatown by Destroyer
04. Under The Gun by Apex Manor
05. I Saw Lightning by Telekinesis
06. Horses Warriors by The Radar Brothers
07. Blue Eyes by Destroyer
08. In The Dreamlife U Need A Rubber Soul by The Clean
09. Crossed Wires by Superchunk
10. My Mistakes by Eleanor Friedberger
11. Baby, It's Cold Outside by She & Him
12. Baby Lee by Teenage Fanclub
13. Damn These Vampires by The Mountain Goats
14. The Counterfeiter by Crooked Fingers
15. The Suburbs by The Arcade Fire
16. Traitor by Richard Buckner
17. Come Visit Me by The Rosebuds
18. The Beast And Dragon, Adored by Spoon
19. The Sun And The Sea And The Sky by Stephin Merritt
20. Bunhill Fields by Amor De Dias
21. Gravitate by Lou Barlow
22. Take It In by Wye Oak
23. Romance by Wild Flag
24. Ever Falling In Love by Times New Viking
25. Candyfloss by Jonny
26. Bad Blood by Crooked Fingers
27. Baby & The Band by Imperial Teen
28. Give It [Live] by Lambchop
29. Wrong by Archers Of Loaf
30. Black Tiles by Wild Flag
31. Fall Hard by Shout Out Louds
32. Learned To Surf by Superchunk
33. I Hope You Die by Wye Oak
34. Grumpus [Live] by Lambchop
35. Breaking Up On The Beat by The Ladybug Transistor
36. Harnessed In Slums by Archers Of Loaf
37. Car Crash by Telekinesis
38. Empty Room by The Arcade Fire
39. Clutching Stems by The Ladybug Transistor
40. Civilian by Wye Oak
41. The Christmas Waltz by She & Him
42. Go Ahead by The Rosebuds
43. Got Nuffin' by Spoon
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About Merge Records:
Merge Records
“In many ways, the chorus to Superchunk’s “Slack Motherfucker”—“I’m working, but I’m not working for you”— seems more apropos than ever, as the work [Merge Records founders Mac and Laura] have put into Merge has always been for something greater than just a means to make a buck..”
-—STEPHEN SLAYBAUGH
Bloodshot Records is based in Chappel Hill, NC.
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 by the first Superchunk (then known only as "Chunk") 7-inch single.
The vinyl 7-inch was the format of choice for the first 3 years of the label, with cash borrowed from friends to finance projects (including singles from Erectus Monotone, Angels of Epistemology, and more Superchunk) and bedrooms serving as Merge HQ until 1992, when the first Merge full-length release, Tossing Seeds by Superchunk, was released on CD, LP, and cassette.
Since '92 Merge moved from one charming-yet-run-down office to another until 2001, when we finally made the move from Chapel Hill down the road to a fine old building all our own in historic Downtown Durham, NC.
In 2009 Merge Records celebrated its 20th birthday, and while our roster has changed, rotated, permutated and expanded over the last 20 years, the quality we look for in records as fans is still there in the music we put out on Merge.
In 2010, The Arcade Fire won the Album Of The Year Grammy Award for their release "The Suburbs". Jim Mahoney, Vice President of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), congratulated the band, saying: “Tonight’s Independent presence at the Grammys not only demonstrates the continued growth and diversity of our labels across genres but also speaks to the quality of music that the Indies continue to create and support.”
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