BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small

    (By Laura Ballance)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 22 MB (22,081 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 598 times
    Last checked 9 Hour ago!
    Author Laura Ballance
    “Book Descriptions: Merge Records defies everything you’ve heard about the music business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Merge is a lesson in how to make and market great music on a human scale. The fact that the company is prospering in a failing industry is something of a miracle. Yet two of their bands made the Billboard Top 10 list; more than 1 million copies of Arcade Fire's Neon Bible have been sold; Spoon has appeared on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show; and the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs is a contemporary classic.

    In celebration of their twentieth anniversary, founders Mac and Laura offer first-person accounts—with the help of their colleagues and Merge artists—of their work, their lives, and the culture of making music. Our Noise also tells the behind-the-scenes stories of Arcade Fire, Spoon, the Magnetic Fields, Superchunk, Lambchop, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Butterglory. Hundreds of personal photos of the bands, along with album cover art, concert posters, and other memorabilia are included.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    The Good Lord Bird

    ★★★★★

    James McBride

    Book 1

    Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices

    ★★★★★

    Matthew Cutter

    Book 1

    Spaceships Over Glasgow

    ★★★★★

    Stuart Braithwaite

    Book 1

    Beautyland

    ★★★★★

    Marie-Helene Bertino

    Book 1

    Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)

    ★★★★★

    Dan Ozzi

    Book 1

    Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion

    ★★★★★

    Steve Turner

    Book 1

    Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

    ★★★★★

    Jamie Loftus

    Book 1

    Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars

    ★★★★★

    Kliph Nesteroff

    Book 1

    Lou Reed: The King of New York

    ★★★★★

    Will Hermes

    Book 1

    This One Summer

    ★★★★★

    Mariko Tamaki

    Book 1

    Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

    ★★★★★

    Dan Charnas

    Book 1

    The Tartar Steppe

    ★★★★★

    Dino Buzzati

    Book 1

    At Home: A Short History of Private Life

    ★★★★★

    Bill Bryson

    Book 1

    How Music Works

    ★★★★★

    David Byrne

    Book 1

    Zodiac

    ★★★★★

    Robert Graysmith

    Book 1

    I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

    ★★★★★

    Sylvie Simmons