{"id":1425,"date":"2011-11-21T19:29:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T00:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2015-10-22T14:15:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T18:15:45","slug":"merge-records-release-free-winter-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Merge Records release free winter sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merge Records today released their Winter sampler including various artists from their roster. Stream and\/or download the\u00a0Merge 2011-2012 free sampler now &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mergerecords.com\/wintersampler\/\" target=\"_blank\">mergerecords.com\/wintersampler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Track listing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hospitality \u2013 \u201cBetty Wang\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Richard Buckner \u2013 \u201cTraitor\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Lambchop \u2013 \u201cGone Tomorrow\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Crooked Fingers \u2013 \u201cBad Blood\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Superchunk\u00a0\u2013 \u201cDriveway to Driveway\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Mountain Goats \u2013 \u201cEstate Sale Sign\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Eleanor Friedberger \u2013 \u201cMy Mistakes\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Imperial Teen \u2013 \u201cRunaway\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Archers of Loaf \u2013 \u201cHarnessed In Slums\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Wild Flag \u2013 \u201cRomance\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Stephin Merritt \u2013 \u201cRot in the Sun\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Rosebuds \u2013 \u201cGo Ahead\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They have also released streams of songs from their two holiday albums,\u00a0Julian Koster\u2018s &#8216;The Singing Saws at Christmastime&#8217; and She &amp; Him\u2018s &#8216;A Very She &amp; Him Christmas&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Merge Records today released their Winter sampler including various artists from their roster. Stream and\/or download the\u00a0Merge 2011-2012 free sampler now &#8211; mergerecords.com\/wintersampler. Track listing: <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=1425\" title=\"Merge Records release free winter sampler\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23,28,30],"tags":[97,293,495,584,691,764,1133,1317,1319],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-archers-of-loaf","tag-crooked-fingers","tag-free-downloads-2","tag-hospitality","tag-lambchop","tag-merge-records","tag-superchunk","tag-wild-flag","tag-winter-sampler"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/merge-records-logo.jpg?fit=580%2C251&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-mZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":867,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=867","url_meta":{"origin":1425,"position":0},"title":"Review: Superchunk &#8211; Foolish (Remastered)","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"September 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Backtrack to 1994 when Superchunk originally released Foolish on their own label moniker, Merge Records, after a three album stint with Matador Records. 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