Merge Records Merge Records Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as a way to release music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world and records reaching the top of the "Billboard" music charts. After releasing a number of 7" records and cassettes, the first Merge Records full-length CD release came on April 1, 1992 with MRG020 Superchunk - "", the band's first collection of singles. The label's first album to reach
No Records & the company went out of business. No Records No Records was a record label and later record distributor that operated in Halifax, Nova Scotia from January 1993 to August 2004. The record label/distributor was started by Waye Mason, who went on to play key roles establishing the Halifax music scene on the international stage, the Halifax Pop Explosion, founded the music business program at NSCC, and was later elected to Halifax Regional Council. Started during the "Halifax is the Seattle of the north" phenomena of the 1990s, No released cassettes by such Halifax notables and the labels first release