Our Noise The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small

Name: Our Noise The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
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ISBN: 9781565126244

ISBN-10: 1565126246

ISBN-13: 9781565126244

Edition: 2009

Authors: Laura Ballance, John Cook, Mac McCaughan

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This fall, a small record label based in downtown Durham, North Carolina will turn 20. Merge Records, the label started by two twenty-year-olds on the floor of a bedroom, have much to celebrate: two of their bands hit Billboard's Top Ten list in 2007; the band Arcade Fire has sold over 1 million copies of Neon Bible. Spoon played during the Grammy's opening, Superchunk was asked to headline The Daily Show's 10th anniversary party. The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs has become a contemporary classic. Our Noise tells the story of the little record label that defies everything you've read and heard not just about the music business, but about small independent companies all over the world.…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 9/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.56" wide x 9.50" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Laura Ballance plays bass in Superchunk and formed with Mac the Merge Records label. She lives in Durham with her husband and daughter.