Merge Records’ new signing, Ought, is releasing their third full length in early 2018. The album, titled Room Inside The World, is on white vinyl for the limited variant, while standard is on black. Both variants are packaged in a gatefold jacket. Recorded at Rare Book Room in Brooklyn with producer...
Superchunk’s new album, What a Time to Be Alive, is now up for pre-order at Merge Records. The limited variant is pink and clear swirl, while the standard is black. That colored vinyl also includes a foldout poster that’s not listed in the standard. The album will be released on Feb. 16. Courtesy...
In conjunction with the podcast series, I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats (from the great Night Vale Presents), Merge Records has launched pre-orders for the covers compilation 2xLP set. This is what’s happening: Artists are covering every track on All Hail West Texas, with a podcast episode...
Ian Svenonious (Nation of Ulysses, Weird War, XYZ, and more) is now making music under the solo moniker of Escape-ism and will release full length album Introduction To Escape-ism. The limited variant is a white vinyl, 250 copies, while you can also pick it up on black. The first 100 pre-orders also...
It seems like many articles on Austin’s A Giant Dog tend to focus on the band’s stage shows and the things which happen when vocalist Sabrina Ellis performs. What seems to get shunted to the side is the actual studio music, the band having released three very excellent albums – Fight, Bone,...
Spoon’s 2006 full length album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, is getting a 2xLP reissue through Merge Records. You’ll get the studio album, plus the 12-track release Get Nice!, “long out of print and previously only released on CD.” Both are on 180-gram wax; everything is housed in a gatefold...
