For twenty-five years of demonstrating that great art and high business ethics can coexist.

2014 marks twenty-five years of music for Merge Records, the label co-founder by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Merge has inspired countless other record labels of note over the years and has carefully cultivated a diverse roster of accomplished artists. Merge artists of note include: Arcade Fire, Conor Oberst, Spoon, She & Him, M. Ward, Bob Mould, King Khan and the Shrines, Neutral Milk Hotel, Superchunk, The Magnetic Fields, Wye Oak, The Love Language, Teenage Fanclub, Buzzcocks, Dinosaur Jr., Destroyer, Eleanor Friedberger/The Fiery Furances, The Mountain Goats, Stephen Merritt and Portastatic.