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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...
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- Author
- Merge Records;Ballance, Laura;Cook, John;McCaughan, Mac
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781565129689
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Economics, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.11 / 5 (1,053 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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