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Merge Records Merges With Secretly Group (EXCLUSIVE)
In a move that unites two of the most important and influential American indie record labels, Secretly Group has partnered with Merge Records.
The label unexpectedly became one of the most influential indies in the business, with releases from such artists as the Magnetic Fields, Waxahatchee, Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, Lambchop, Caribou, the Clean and many more, and even a couple of Grammy Awards. It is fitting that the announcement takes place during A2IM’s Indie Week, which sees the entire community gathering in New York for the annual conference and Monday night’s Libera Awards. This started as a distribution conversation, because we’re already working with Secretly overseas, and then it was like, well, this makes sense as a more fully integrated partnership in a way that is true to the artists, but also hopefully creates a successful business.
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