A Trickle from the Vault

A couple songs for you, in what we hope to be a regular Merge Blog series of rare/live mp3s:

Destroyer & The Treacherous Fops - The Music Lovers (mp3): Live @ Cats Cradle, Carrboro, NC, July 31, 2004 at the Merge 15th Anniversary Festival.

This cut is culled from the one and only performance to date by The Treacherous Fops--comprised of Mac McCaughan on guitar, Spott on trumpet, Paul Finn on keys, Paul Cardillo on bass, and the incomparable Lee Waters manning the skins. Destroyer is Mr. Dan Bejar.

The Broken West – Brass Ring (mp3): Live at the Great Scott, Allston, MA, March 3, 2007. Special thanks to Bradley's Almanac, one of the best blogs in Blogland, for the Broken West show!

For non-digital, real life shows near you, check out the Merge Tour Dates.

Anyone with rare/live recordings (especially lossless) of any Merge bands and a disposition towards sharing, please send a message to:

wilson
wilson (at) mergerecords (dot) com

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2007 Top 10 Lists: Daniel Bejar

Dan Bejar has a new Destroyer album on the way in 2008 - Trouble In Dreams will be released on March 18th - but here a a few of his favorite things from 2007:


Frog Eyes - Tears Of The Valedictorian
Cass McCombs - Dropping The Writ
Bill Callahan - Woke On A Waleheart
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Robert Pollard - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love
The Clientele - God Save The Clientele
Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation
Plush - Take A Chance (video); I Sing Silence (rough mix)
Devon Williams - A Truce/Elevator (7")
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover

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Final Fantasy + Cadence Weapon cover Destroyer!

via You Ain't No Picasso

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Stream the DC Spoon concert online!

(Spoon meet n' greet at NYC show)

SPOON plays the 9:30 Club in DC tonight! For those of you not lucky enough to make it, the kind folks at NPR have scheduled a LIVE BROADCAST tonight! An interview with the band will air at 7:30, and the show goes live at 8pm! Tune in tonight for the entire concert!

If you'd rather park yourself in front of the TV tonight, Reaper will feature songs from two Merge artists: Spoon's "The Underdog" and Imperial Teen's "Shim Sham"!

Another momentous TV event: SPOON on SNL re-airs THIS Saturday, October 27!

Spoon also visited KCMP recently. Click the link to hear the session!

They also gave a little shout out to Destroyer at their Boston show..

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