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Merge Records Celebrates 25th Anniversary — Watch Video Documentary, Download Free Mountain Goats & Superchuck Tracks

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Watch this documentary on Merge Records here.

Download free songs by the Mountain Goats and Superchunk and others here.

Here’s the press release from Merge:

Today, Google Play premiered a new documentary in the US about Merge Records. In candid, amusing interviews, Mac, Laura, Merge musicians, and friends of the label talk about its evolution and unwavering focus on its artists. Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the A Series of Unfortunate Events books—and sometime member of The Magnetic Fields—narrates the documentary.

Also, music fans in the US are invited to download 25 free Merge tracks, including five new and exclusive recordings from Superchunk, The Mountain Goats, Telekinesis, Saint Rich, and Hiss Golden Messenger.

Visit Google Play now to watch the videos and download the free tracks (US only). In addition to a selection of Merge album tracks, Superchunk, The Mountain Goats, Telekinesis, Saint Rich, and Hiss Golden Messenger each cover songs originally made popular by fellow Merge artists Spoon, The Magnetic Fields, Wye Oak, Mikal Cronin, and American Music Club. All 25 tracks will be available to download for free until August 5. Google Play also filmed some behind-the-scenes footage of the making of several of these “Merge on Merge” recordings.

The unique cover art accompanying the five new tracks was designed by Dave Eggers, popular author, philanthropist, and founder of the 826 Valencia literacy project.

[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.

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Audio: Stream New Black Keys Album, ‘Turn Blue’

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Right now you can check out the new Black Keys album, Turn Blue, at iTunes for free.

[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]

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Listen: Cat Power’s ‘Free,’ as Remixed for ‘Girls’ Soundtrack

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Crazy Gigamesh remix of the awesome 2003 Cat Power track, “Free.”

Check out “Free (Remix),” which is included is on the new soundtrack for “Girls.”

Thanks Stereogum!

Listen: Del the Funky Homosapien’s Free LP, ‘Iler Than Most’

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Photo via Del’s Facebook page.

Del the Funky Homosapien says of this new album, Iler Than Most, which you can listen to below: “Lyrically ill but fun to listen to, nothing super heavy. I did the production on it as well.”

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Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova & Maria Alyokhina Are Free

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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova after release in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Photo via the Voice Project.

The two imprisoned members of Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were freed today (Monday, December 23, 2013) under a new amnesty law. Both women had served nearly all of their two-year sentence.

Maria Alyokhina was set free in the western city of Nizhny Novgorod this morning, while Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was freed later in the day in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

Upon her release, Tolokonnikova yelled, “Russia without Putin!,” Rolling Stone reports. She then told reporters:

I’m in the mood to work after getting out from prison. My exit from prison is only just the beginning, as far as the line between freedom and bondage remains very narrow in Russia, in an authoritarian state.

In a telephone interview Alyokhina told the New York Times “she did not want amnesty, and that officials had forced her to leave the prison. She said that the amnesty program was designed to make Mr. Putin look benevolent, and that she would have preferred to serve the remainder of her sentence.”

I think this is an attempt to improve the image of the current government, a little, before the Sochi Olympics — particularly for the Western Europeans. But I don’t consider this humane or merciful. This is a lie. We didn’t ask for any pardon. I would have sat here until the end of my sentence because I don’t need mercy from Putin.

More from the New York Times here.

More from Rolling Stone here.

More photos from the Voice Project here.

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Pussy Riot Member Maria Alyokhina Reportedly Free

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Maria Alyokhina (left) is free.

Reuters reported this evening that Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina is now free.

Maria Alyokhina, a member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, walked free from jail on Monday under an amnesty allowing her early release from a two-year sentence for a protest in a church against President Vladimir Putin.

“They’ve just released her,” Pyotr Verzilov, the husband of fellow band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who is also due to be released under the amnesty, told Reuters.

For more of the story, head here.

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Russian President Putin Confirms Amnesty for Pussy Riot Members

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Maria Alekhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikov. Photo via Earth First!

Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that the imprisoned Pussy Riot members will be freed under an amnesty but described their protest against him in a church as “disgraceful behaviour,” NDTV reported.

The amnesty will also free 30 people arrested in a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil — before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics in February 2014.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina are serving two-year sentences for a protest at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which included the filming the music video “Punk Prayer – Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!”

Putin said the amnesty was passed to mark the 20th anniversary of Russia’s post-Soviet constitution, and not with the Greenpeace protesters or Pussy Riot in mind.

At an annual news conference today Putin said:

“It (the amnesty) is neither linked to Greenpeace, nor this group (Pussy Riot).”

But Putin also said, “I was not sorry that they (the Pussy Riot members) ended up behind bars,” Putin said. “I was sorry that they were engaged in such disgraceful behaviour, which in my view was degrading to the dignity of women. They went beyond all boundaries.”

For more of the story go here.

Pussy Riot-Punk Prayer:

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Pussy Riot Members To Be Freed Under New Amnesty

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Maria Alekhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikov. Photo via Earth First!

Russian lawmakers approved the final version of an amnesty today that will free Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who are both currently serving two-year sentences.

The State Duma, or lower house of parliament, made modifications to the amnesty, and then approved it. The law passed unanimously, according to the state news organization RIA Novosti.

For more, head here.

Pussy Riot-Punk Prayer:

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Download: Four Tet Celebrates 100K Followers With Free Music

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Celebrating his 100,000 Twitter follower, Four Tet is giving music away today. Below you can download his 5+ minute edit of Grimes‘ “Skin.”

More good stuff at Four Tet’s Twitter page.

mp3:
Four Tet :: Human Once Again (Grimes)

Thanks to Gorilla Vs. Bear for the info.

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