Merge

Headquarters: Chapel Hill, NC

Founded: 1989

Founded by: Superchunk

Link: Official Site

Genre(s):
 * Rock
 * Pop
 * Indie-Rock
 * Lo-Fi
 * Alt. Country

Active Roster

 * The 3Ds
 * The 6ths
 * American Music Club
 * ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
 * The Arcade Fire
 * Ashley Stove
 * Lou Barlow
 * Beatnik Filmstars
 * Breadwinner
 * Richard Buckner
 * Paul Burch
 * Butterglory
 * Camera Obscura
 * The Clean
 * The Clientele
 * Crooked Fingers
 * Destroyer
 * East River Pipe
 * Matt Elliott
 * The Essex Green
 * Future Bible Heroes
 * Ganger
 * Guv'ner
 * Annie Hayden
 * Imperial Teen
 * The Karl Hendricks Trio
 * David Kilgour
 * The Ladybug Transistor
 * Lambchop
 * The Mad Scene
 * The Magnetic Fields
 * The Music Tapes
 * Pipe
 * Polvo
 * Portastatic
 * Pram
 * Radar Bros.
 * The Rock*A*Teens
 * The Rosebuds
 * Seaweed
 * Shark Quest
 * Spaceheads
 * Spent
 * Spoon
 * Matt Suggs
 * Superchunk
 * Teenage Fanclub
 * Tenement Halls
 * The Third Eye Foundation
 * Versus
 * M. Ward

Inactive Roster

 * The Bricks
 * Buzzcocks
 * Neutral Milk Hotel
 * Dinosaur Jr.

Key Releases

 * The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
 * Superchunk - Tossing Seeds

Biography
Merge was founded in 1989 at the same time as Superchunk, mainly to release Superchunk albums along with other bands they liked -- in fact, the first releases were by other bands on cassette. Since then, they've grown to be one of the bigger known Indie-Rock labels with a cult following -- one of those labels, like Sub Pop that has folks who will buy any record on Merge, just because it's on Merge.