The oral history Please Kill Me has to be the seminal document of punk music. Compiled from hundreds of interviews with punk legends, also-rans and hangers-on, it portrayed the culture as it was lived ...

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The deal merges two of the most influential record companies in indie music. By Ethan Millman Music Editor Talk about a “merger.” Secretly Group, the indie label group whose companies include Dead ...

Merge will continue to run as a standalone label while utilizing Secretly Distribution’s worldwide distribution arm and aspects of the Secretly ecosystem such as accounting, artist royalties, business ...

Secretly Group execs have acquired 50% of indie label Merge Records, from which co-founder and co-president Laura Ballance is stepping away. Bloomington-based Secretly announced the investment and the ...

Merge Records, the Chapel Hill-based independent label founded by Superchunk‘s Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989, has formed a partnership with the Secretly Group who own Secretly Canadian, ...

Here's a behind-the-scenes seismic shift in the indie music landscape: Merge Records is selling a 50% stake to the founders of Secretly Group, and Merge co-founder Laura Ballance is getting out of the ...

Secretly Group has acquired a 50% stake in Merge Records, the influential indie label that released classic albums by the likes of Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, the Magnetic Fields, and Arcade Fire. The ...

With its new partnership with Secretly Group, Merge Records hopes it can better serve its artists. "Merge artists already know our enthusiasm and love for their music and what they're doing," Merge ...

Talk about a "merger." Secretly Group, the indie label group whose companies include Dead Oceans, Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar, has acquired a 50 percent stake in fellow influential indie label ...