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The Walking Dead: Why You Should “Fear the Hunters”

Posted by Jamie Turner on Oct. 21, 2009, at 1:01 pm

The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s incredible tale of ongoing survival horror, is THE most consistently great comic book series on shelves today. It’s so good, that it’s being developed into a television series for AMC (the same folks airing the critically acclaimed drama Mad Men). Image Comics has been publishing The Walking Dead for almost six years now and there hasn’t been a bad issue yet. Trust me, I have them all. This wealth of a back-story should give AMC plenty of fantastic material to work with when the show finally gets started next year.

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Tags: AMC, comic, comic books, comics, Dead, fear, fear the hunters, horror, Hunters, Television, the walking dead, TV, walking, zombie, zombie apocalypse, zombies
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Our Noise, the history of Merge Records as told by those who were there

Posted by Cooper Levey-Baker on Oct. 8, 2009, at 4:24 pm

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If one quote from the new oral history Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small sums up why Merge Records — and indies like it — are thriving while the major labels are collapsing, it’s from Jeff Mangum, the itinerant and press-dodging frontman of the legendary band Neutral Milk Hotel. While Mangum declined to participate in interviews for the book, he writes this via email: “Merge is by far the perfect home for our music, a label that couldn’t be more honest and true to its vision. It gladdens me to see that it’s human labels like Merge who are fully alive in this moment, while the giants of the music industry are all eating shit. May it forever be so.”

Indeed.

The bulk of Our Noise traces how Merge came to both its commercial and artistic prominence over the last 20 years, told through extensive interviews with Superchunk members and Merge co-founders Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance (who are both billed as co-authors along with Gawker reporter John Cook) and profiles of many of the bands whose work has borne the Merge logo: Spoon, The Arcade Fire and The Magnetic Fields, among them. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: merge records, neutral milk hotel, our noise, Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, Spoon, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small, The Magnetic Fields, The-Arcade-Fire
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