"Made in Canada" is the closing and crowning achievement of Bachman's latest Merge -- the revitalized follow-up to 1993's Any Road. Ironically, a collaboration with Neil Young was also Any Road's highlight, and "Made in Canada" sounds like the fully-mature follow-up to that disc's "Prairie Town." Young's inspired, live-off-the-floor knife-slashes here (which Bachman himself compares to "Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey") equal any string-bending he's done to date. The pair thu...   [ read more ]

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For twenty years, North Carolina's Merge Records has embodied the spirit of independent music. Started in 1989 by Laura Balance and Mac McCaughan, Merge has followed a simple mission: to put out music from bands they like. From the early singles by the founders' own Superchunk and fellow North Carolina bands, through Arcade Fire's bestselling Funeral and beyond, this book chronicles twenty years of indie rock through the label's visual incarnation: the album cover. Photographed in the hands of band members...   [ read more ]

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