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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Merge Records comes up
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione
- ▶ 48:21 Sam Calagione And if you look at how much the indie music movement in America, essentially in the same era when
Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
- ▶ 1:25 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two indie rockers launched a record label, named it after a road sign, and grew Merge into one of the most influential names in independent music. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:10 Guy Raz And I guess around this time, Mac, you were, you were playing a bunch of different bands, and there was one project that you started, which would actually kind of plant the seeds for Merge Records, I guess, where
- ▶ 28:15 Guy Raz By the way, how did you come up with the name Merge, Merge Records? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:46 Laura Ballance So I'm calling from Merge Records. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:01 Guy Raz Meantime, you put out, for Chunk, you put out some music on this label Merge that you have, and this is complicated, because I read that in, like, early 1990, you signed a deal, a record deal, with a record label called Matador, which went… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:41 Laura Ballance And he had noticed what we were doing with Merge, and he said that he would like to have Touch and Go manufacture and distribute on behalf of Merge. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:55 Guy Raz Then, when you split up as a couple, you had a band together, and you had a business, this merge relationship. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:39 Guy Raz But they are still very much together, very much partners when it comes to the record label Merge and their band Superchunk. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:09 Laura Ballance but yeah, like, once we started slowing down the touring and were able to focus more on Merge, I think that, like, it enabled Merge to grow more. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:31 Guy Raz Have there been times, let's say after you split up, right, and, and you're running this, this label, where you guys had some significant enough differences between the two of you that there was a chance that, that merge wouldn't survive… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:13 Guy Raz I'm assuming that must have been the first time that Emerge record got that much attention.
- ▶ 1:02:27 Laura Ballance And they got out of it and wound up on merge. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:48 Guy Raz I mean, it just, like, the fact that they sold so many records obviously reflects on, on how good the music is, but also resulted in, in Merge becoming more than just a, a small little indie label. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:01 Guy Raz Do you think that, that what happened with Merge, and the influence it had, had to do with just getting lucky, like just luckily finding the right artist, or do you think it had to do with like, the kind of the strategic, you know, and… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:53 Guy Raz That's Laura Balance and Mac McCann, founders of Merge Records and members of the band Superchunk.
How I Built Resilience: Ethan Diamond of Bandcamp
- ▶ 8:57 Ethan Diamond Uh, so, um, Sub Pop, Merge, ATO, uh, Ninja Tune, Relapse, uh, just, uh,