Wanna own the following goodies?

-A Merge Records Tote Bag
-A Merge Records T Shirt

If so, then leave a comment on this post!

A winner (US only) will be randomly chosen on 11/30 @ NOON.

Babelgum has some great footage from Merge’s XX Festival.

MP3: Wye Oak - Take It In

The benefit LP will see daylight on 11/17. It features:

1. Caribou - Kalgon (Polvo)
2. Barbara Morgenstern - Mother Of Pearl (Pram)
3. Four Tet - Baby’s Way Cruel (Guv’ner)
4. The Blow - Drill Me (I Was So There Mix) (Portastatic)
5. John McEntire - The Ghost Of You Lingers (Spoon)
6. Jason Forrest - No Cars Go (Arcade Fire)
7. Xiu Xiu - Volcana! (I Hope Your Train Crashes Mix) (The 6ths)
8. Plus Minus - Bow To The Middle (The Rosebuds)
9. Hands Off Cuba - Irene (Caribou)
10. Mark Robinson - Washington DC (The Magnetic Fields)
11. Junior Boys - The Nashville Parent (Lambchop)

Score was released earlier this year.

For further info, head here.

MP3: Xiu Xiu - FTW

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TMS’s 10,000th fan will receive a very special prize pack from Merge.

(The label is home to M. Ward, Wye Oak, Spoon & Arcade Fire)

Good luck!

MP3: M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You

Wow! View all tunes on Score below. The LP is out on 4/7.

1 Quasi: “Beautiful Life” (3Ds cover)
2 Les Savy Fav: “Precision Auto” (Superchunk cover)
3 The Shins: “Plenty Is Never Enough” (Tenement Halls cover)
4 St. Vincent & The National: “Sleep All Summer” (Crooked Fingers cover)
5 Broken Social Scene: “Complications” (The Clean cover)
6 Ryan Adams: “Like A Fool” (Superchunk cover)
7 Bright Eyes: “Papa Was A Rodeo” (Magnetic Fields cover)
8 Lavender Diamond: “New Ways Of Living” (Destroyer cover)
9 The Apples In Stereo: “King Of Carrot…” (Neutral Milk Hotel cover)
10 Laura Cantrell: “Cowboy On The Moon” (Lambchop cover)
11 Bill Callahan: “Santa Maria” (Versus cover)
12 Barbara Manning: “Through With People” (Portastatic cover)
13 The Mountain Goats: “Drug Life” (East River Pipe cover)
14 The New Pornographers: “Don’t Destroy…” (Rock*A*Teens cover)
15 Tracey Thorn & Jens Lekman: “Yeah…” (Magnetic Fields cover)
16 The Hive Dwellers: “My Noise” (Superchunk cover)
17 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists: “The Numbered Head” (Robert Pollard cover)
18 Okkervil River: “All You Little Suckers” (East River Pipe cover)
19 Death Cab For Cutie: “Kicked In” (Superchunk cover)
20 Times New Viking: “Neighborhood Number One” (Arcade Fire cover)

MP3: Jens Lekman - You Are The Light

Track listing is as follows:

A. Destroyer - Madame Butterflies
B. Wye Oak - Prodigy

The only way to get one of these seven inches is to visit a participating independent music store on Record Store Day (Saturday, April 19) and see if they have one on hand.

Check out the list of participating shops here.

MP3: Wye Oak - Warning

In a brand spankin’ new MySpace bulletin from Merge Records: New items have been added to the Merge Holiday Charity Autions on EBAY! Please click HERE to check them out. Up now: Portastatic - Be Still Please signed CD & poster from a gig @ Mecca, White Whale - WWI signed CD, and Destroyer - Destroyer’s Rubies signed CD by the man himself - Dan Bejar!

xo,
Merge Records

All I see when I click on the eBay link is the Portastatic signed poster (currently at $77). Perhaps the others will go up soon, keep checkin’! In somewhat related news, don’t forget, THE ARCADE FIRE TIX GO ONSALE 9AM FRIDAY THROUGH TICKETS.COM (Thanks Rad!) Be at your computer and type quickly or you will be forced to resort to Craigslist for some outrageous proposition.