Thursday, February 10, 2005

Merge on Rhapsody soon?


Was heartened to see this post from an admin on Merge Records' discussion boards:

Jan 5, 2005:
we'll be up on rhapsody really soon! and other digital services not quite as soon!
-spottmerge (administrator)


Here's a quick highlight of the bands that we're talking about here on their current roster:
The Arcade Fire
Spoon (new album coming May 10... something to shoot for!)
Superchunk / Portostatic
Lou Barlow
American Music Club
Richard Buckner
M Ward
Crooked Fingers
Camera Obsura
Buzzcocks

and from the back catalogue:
Neutral Milk Hotel
Magnetic Fields

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

YIPPEE!!!! You made my day!

mgrooves said...

As the person who started that thread on the Merge message boards a loooooooooooong time ago, I'm happy to hear things may finally be moving. It would be great to hear Superchunk, East River Pipe, Versus and others through the service. Fingers crossed!

Luke Warmwater said...

best news going! i love RHAPSODY and i sort of love Merge too, although not as much. Hate having to switch players just to play Funeral! Tell me what I can do to help.

-t