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What’cha Readin’? Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records! With Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance!

What’cha Readin’? Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records! With Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance!

Posted by Vish Khanna on Nov 06, 2009

Hiiiiii. Hope all is well! Hey, it's the first day with our What'cha Readin' book of the month for November and boy oh boy, am I excited! Why? Well, because it's Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records by John Cook, Laura Ballance, and Mac McCaughan and, on today's show, Laura and Mac are joining me on the phone to tell us all about the book!

Laura an Mac on Our Noise Part I:

Laura an Mac on Our Noise Part I:

Laura an Mac on Our Noise Part II:

Laura an Mac on Our Noise Part II

Congratulations to all of you who won a copy of this book in the past two weeks: Pat McPhillips (Winnipeg, MB), Johnald Teeter Esq. (London, ON), Adam Gavin (Saint John, NB), Tommy Gough (Toronto, ON), Joel Lidqvist (Norrköping, Sweden), Heather Mariash (Jyväskylä, Finland), Michael Vasiliauskas (Fredericton, NB), Milena Kocay (Halifax, NS), and Sharmeen Khan (Toronto, ON). I hope you all enjoy the book and, as usual, will please come up with some questions for our authors. They'll be able to answer them for you by the end of the month!

Our you eager to read Our Noise and learn more about Merge Records? Oh. Have you mentioned this book club of ours to your friends at all? I'm looking to spread the word...

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  1. TheRadioHead
    01

    Thanks for the book, Vish

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by TheRadioHead

    I don't know much about this side of the industry, and am looking forward to learning about it.

     

    @kankakee

     

    Last week you spoke about reading one of Jon Krakauer's books.  I picked up his latest, Where Men Win Glory: the odyssey of Pat Tillman. 

     

    It is about this famous and talented football player who walks away from his career to fight the War On Terror after 9-11, but sadly gets killed by friendly fire.  The bulk of the book is about how the US government lied to cover this up, and used his death as a tool to further advance public support for this war.

     

    I like reading about American politics, but even if you don't, Jon Krakauer's writing is so engaging and accessible, I do believe you might enjoy it.

     

  2. aaadamaa
    02

    Raccoons

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by aaadamaa

    Also, I won a book!?  Sweet!!!

  3. tb3
    03

    I am VERY eager!

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by tb3

    Just waiting for my copy to come in.

    And I can't believe I actually finished last month's book on time. On Friday night with a day to spare to boot.

    Yes, I tell all my friends about the book club.

    Merge back in the day was one of my favorite all-time labels. Merge, Dischord, Epitaph/Fat, SubPop, Murder, Mint and Sonic Unyun were guaranteed money in the bank for me in the 90's.

    I'd love to read a similar book about Sonic Unyun or Murderrecords. Wasn't there one for Mint?

  4. tb3
    04

    Also, in honour of our Euro Book Winners

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by tb3

    Can we get some sort of Sweden / Finland battle going? Start it off with discussion about hockey.

  5. Vish Khanna
    05

    @tb3

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by Vish Khanna

    I don't think there's a book about Mint...what are you thinking of?

  6. PKEW PKEW PKEW (gunshots)
    06

    re: What’cha Readin’? Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records! With Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance!

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by PKEW PKEW PKEW (gunshots)

    I am excited for this interview. I saw the merge book about a week ago and i've been waiting for payday. i'm gonna go buy it right after work now that i'm a B'Jillionaire again. 

  7. MikeV
    07

    re: What’cha Readin’? Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records! With Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance!

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by MikeV

    Good morning Vish! Normally I would say books are just a government tool to force me to learn things, but alas I have enjoyed reading this book. I have to admit I wasn't at all familiar with Merge but that is changing page by page. My only problem is I work early Friday mornings thus why I generally don't participate in this book club, but i'll do what I can this month.

  8. tb3
    08

    @Vishal

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by tb3

    Maybe it's in the works? I thought I saw that somewhere.

    But I could have misremembered?

    There should be one, though.

  9. Vish Khanna
    09

    @MikeV

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by Vish Khanna

    Your dedication is appreciated and will be noted on your record.

    I'm glad you're enjoying the book; it's amazing!

  10. MikeV
    10

    @Vish

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by MikeV

    Why are you keep a record on me? Are you a cop?

  11. mynameismoe
    11

    re: What’cha Readin’? Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records! With Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance!

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by mynameismoe

    i think i need to find this book! it all sounds quite interesting!

  12. Vish Khanna
    12

    @MikeV

    Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by Vish Khanna

    ....No....reason...

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