Thu 9 Apr 2009
SCORE! Available Now
Posted by Jeff Kuykendall under Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel
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This week saw the release of SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers, a complement to the SCORE! subscription series box set (but available separately in both retail and online stores), and featuring 20 covers of Merge artists by the likes of Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, Quasi, Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, The New Pornographers, Bill Callahan, The Mountain Goats, Tracey Thorn & Jens Lekman, Okkervil River, and more. Of chief interest to Optical Atlas readers is a cover of Neutral Milk Hotel’s “King of Carrot-Flowers Pt. Three” by close friends The Apples in Stereo. You can download the album now at Merge Records’ website.
As for XX Merge, the Merge Records festival taking place July 22-26th in North Carolina, all five-day passes are already sold out. (Confirmed acts include Superchunk, Spoon, Conor Oberst, Spent, M. Ward, The Rosebuds, Destroyer, Guv’ner, Polvo, Pipe, and The Broken West.) Individual tickets will be made available at a later date. Keep an eye on Merge’s website for details.
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