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Cargando... Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Smallpor Laura Ballance, Laura Ballance (Autor), Mac McCaughan (Autor)
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Merge Records defies everything you've heard about the music business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Merge is a lesson in how to make and market great music on a human scale. The fact that the company is prospering in a failing industry is something of a miracle. Yet two of their bands made the Billboard Top 10 list; more than 1 million copies of Arcade Fire's Neon Bible have been sold; Spoon has appeared on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show; and the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs is a contemporary classic. In celebration of their twentieth anniversary, founders Mac and Laura offer first-person accounts--with the help of their colleagues and Merge artists--of their work, their lives, and the culture of making music. Our Noise also tells the behind-the-scenes stories of Arcade Fire, Spoon, the Magnetic Fields, Superchunk, Lambchop, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Butterglory. Hundreds of personal photos of the bands, along with album cover art, concert posters, and other memorabilia are included. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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And they learned and learned:
It's a lot like the English label, Factory, in some ways:
Then, the money came in.
Not much debauchery, though:
About the classic Steve Albini article:
On the advent of The Magnetic Fields:
On "69 Love Songs":
Arcade Fire signed with Merge, based on them being nice people. They left their previous label for Merge and wrote this to Merge:
On how major labels basically wasted money:
All in all: a very inspirational, tough and loving story about a little record label that spawned a lot of brilliant artists and releases, and still continues to run to this day, having now been up for 25 years. That's really something. (