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Merge Records
Founded 1989
Founder Mac McCaughan
Laura Ballance
Genre Indie rock
Country of origin United States
Location Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Official website www.mergerecords.com

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. Mac McCaughan is a founding member of the rock band Superchunk, and co-founder of Merge Records along with Laura Ballance. Laura Ballance is the bassist in the rock band Superchunk and co-founder of Merge Records along with Mac McCaughan. Indie rock is genre of Alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent Underground music scene The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Chapel Hill is a town in Durham and Orange counties in North Carolina and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC An independent record label (or indie record label) is a Record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the Major record labels Durham is a city in the US state of North Carolina. It is the County seat of Durham County Merge was originally founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989 as a way to release singles and cassettes from their band Superchunk, and music created by friends. Chapel Hill is a town in Durham and Orange counties in North Carolina and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC Mac McCaughan is a founding member of the rock band Superchunk, and co-founder of Merge Records along with Laura Ballance. Laura Ballance is the bassist in the rock band Superchunk and co-founder of Merge Records along with Mac McCaughan. This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989 A musical ensemble is a group of two or more Musicians who perform instrumental or vocal Music. Superchunk is an Indie rock band from Chapel Hill North Carolina, consisting of singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist The first Merge full-length release came on April 1, 1992 with MRG020 Superchunk - Tossing Seeds, the band's first collection of singles. The label's first album to reach the USA Billboard 200 was the Arcade Fire's Funeral. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard Arcade Fire (often referred to as The Arcade Fire) is an Indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec and fronted by the husband and wife duo Funeral is the debut full-length album by Canadian rock band Arcade Fire, released on September 14, 2004 on Merge [1] Arcade Fire then gave the label its highest-charting release with their follow-up, Neon Bible, which debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200. Neon Bible is the second album by Canadian Indie rock band Arcade Fire. [2]

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