RTP-area local music and culture

["Glenn Boothe / Local 506" <gboothe2 AT earthlink.net>]

Okay, so Merge Records*, a name inspired by a road sign I believe, has
been around for over fifteen years.  Then, last year there was a
dance-oriented night called Merge at the late-Martin Street Music Hall.
 Now, today, I get a letter in the mail from Merge Productions, based
in Durham no less, that is "tailored to the unsigned professional
artist and their quest to perform live."  I don't know what that means
either, but you wouldn't even need to run a google search to realize
this is a bad name for a music-oriented company, just try the yellow
pages.

glenn

* funny, at the time, I suggested that Merge might be a bad name, a
little too similar to existing indie label, Emergo (you know, home of
all those Senator Flux CDs** in the used bins...)  Even funnier
might've been my suggestion that Slack Motherfucker might not be the
best song to release as a single.

** oh yeah, i like Senator Flux.