How about an early holiday treat? You Wish: A Merge Records Holiday Album is now available on digital services. https://smarturl.it/YouWishMRG30

Check out this all-star list of contributors: Coco Hames, The Essex Green, Mike Krol, Mac McCaughan & Annie Hayden, Fruit Bats, Apex Manor, William Tyler, Hiss Golden Messenger & Lucinda Williams, Eric Bachmann, Telekinesis, Mikal Cronin, Will Butler, Tracyanne and Danny, and Shout Out Louds.

UPCOMING: You Wish (A Merge Records Holiday Album) (2019)

Merge Records Buy: Discogs (so far)

You leave town for the weekend and everything blows up. This record is probably going to be all over Stereogum in a matter of minutes (as that is where all the bigger indie labels seem to go), but for now, let’s talk about this upcoming Merge Records holiday record! Mergeis celebrating their 30th year, and with that they started a celebration subscription at the…

Little Bandit - “Platform Shoes”

You may remember Little Bandit’s video for “Platform Shoes” when it was originally released way back in 2013 but it’s never too late to revisit it! As this Rolling Stone Country article notes, the video features Margo Price, Coco Hames, Tristen and many others (that’s Amaia Agirre, Bekah Cope and Samantha Frances Cutler) portraying street workers, trying their best to make ends meet. The video always struck me as a bit cheeky but the song itself is absolutely harrowing as it follows Price’s character to a dreadful end.

New Coco Hames video: I Don’t Wanna Go

Video: Coco Hames – “I Don’t Wanna Go” From Coco Hames, out now on Merge Records. A charming slice of Memphis garage pop from the former frontwoman of the Ettes. “Doesn’t matter what they say / ’cause I’m gonna get my way / if I don’t wanna go.” Right on. Coco Hames: twitter, fb, amazon, wiki.

The featured album is Stripped Down Gussied Up by Pierce Edens. Plus Chris Stapleton, Coco Hames, Willie Nelson, Rhiannon Giddens, John Moreland, & more.

New music from Chris Stapleton, Coco Hames, and Pierce Edens.