Lavender Diamond, Broken Social Scene Added to Score!
Merge recently announced that Lavender Diamond and Broken Social Scene will be a part of their 20th anniversary box set called Score! Merge Records: The First 20 Years. They will be featured on a disc with other non-Merge artists covering select songs from the label’s catalog. Other non-Merge artists to take part in Score! are Apples in Stereo, Bright Eyes, Okkervil River and the New Pornographers, among others. A planned second disc will contain artist remixes including Jason Forrest with his Polvo remix he calls “Dark New Ages”. Fourteen of the other discs include the favorites from all the bands on Merge. The box set also comes with video footage, artwork and much more.
The service is planned as a monthly installment from Merge to send you a new disc one at a time. The box set is $199 but orders end January 1st 2009 and can only be done at Merge’s site.
For more information on Score! or to place an order go to www.mergerecords.com/score.
