Blog: NPR Music: Monitor Mix

If you're lucky, you're in Chapel Hill, North Carolina right now. Why? Because that's where Merge Records is celebrating Merge XX , their 20th anniversary celebration. Don't know about Merge? Well, if you've listened to songs or records by Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel, She & Him, the 3D's or the Magnetic Fields, then at the very least, you've dipped your toe into the splendid and diverse Merge catalog. Superchunk was my first exposure to the world of Mac McCaughn, Laura Ballance, and to Merge Records. It was 1992 and I purchased the album [...]