Merge Records Announces SXSW 2012 Showcase

Merge Records is hosting a showcase at the annual SXSW Music Festival in Austin, TX at Frank.

Merge SXSW Showcase 2012
Friday, March 16 @ Frank
Doors at 7 and the show starts at 7:30

Line-up from first to last on stage:
M. Ward
Hospitality
Eleanor Friedberger
The Love Language
Crooked Fingers
Imperial Teen

The Magnetic Fields play their own show at SXSW
Friday, March 16 @ Austin City Limits Live
Doors are at 6:30, and the band hits the stage at 8:30.

Crooked Fingers Release New Video

Crooked Fingers have released the new video for their track ’Our New Favorite’ lifted from their album ‘Breaks in the Armor’. The clip was directed and edited by James Fleischel.

 

Crooked Fingers will be at Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles on February 29 and will also be in Austin, TX for the Merge Records showcase at the SXSW Music Festival beginning March 14.

For more information on Crooked Fingers, visit www.crookedfingers.com.

Merge Records Release Free Winter Sampler

Merge Records today released their Winter Sampler including various artists from their roster. Stream and/or download the Merge 2011-2012 free sampler now – www.mergerecords.com/wintersampler.

Tracklisting:

  • Hospitality – “Betty Wang”
  • Richard Buckner – “Traitor”
  • Lambchop – “Gone Tomorrow”
  • Crooked Fingers – “Bad Blood”
  • Superchunk – “Driveway to Driveway”
  • The Mountain Goats – “Estate Sale Sign”
  • Eleanor Friedberger – “My Mistakes”
  • Imperial Teen – “Runaway”
  • Archers of Loaf – “Harnessed In Slums”
  • Wild Flag – “Romance”
  • Stephin Merritt – “Rot in the Sun”
  • The Rosebuds – “Go Ahead”

They have also released streams of songs from their two holiday albums, Julian Koster‘s The Singing Saws at Christmastime and She & Him‘s A Very She & Him Christmas.