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Merge Reveals Anniversary Album Details

Merge Records has finally unveiled the tracklisting behind its anniversary album, SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers. Due out April 7, it includes a collaboration between the National and St. Vincent (Crooked Fingers’ “Sleep All Summer”), an Apples In Stereo rendition of Neutral Milk Hotel’s “King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 3,” and a Bright Eyes version of Magnetic Fields’ “Papa Was a Rodeo.” Pre-order details are available at www.mergerecords.com.

Here’s the full tracklisting:
Quasi - “Beautiful Things” (3Ds cover)
Les Savy Fav - “Precision Auto” (Superchunk cover)
The Shins - “Plenty Is Never Enough” (Tenement Halls cover)
St. Vincent and the National - “Sleep All Summer” (Crooked Fingers cover)
Broken Social Scene - “Complications” (The Clean cover)
Ryan Adams - “Like a Fool” (Superchunk cover)
Bright Eyes - “Papa Was a Rodeo” (Magnetic Fields cover)
Lavender Diamond - “New Ways of Living” (Destroyer cover)
The Apples in Stereo - “King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 3″ (Neutral Milk Hotel cover)
Laura Cantrell - “Cowboy on the Moon” (Lambchop cover)
Bill Callahan - “Santa Maria” (Versus cover)
Barbara Manning - “Through With People” (Portastatic cover)
The Mountain Goats - “Drug Life” (East River Pipe cover)
The New Pornographers - “Don’t Destroy This Night” (Rock*A*Teens cover)
Tracey Thorn and Jens Lekman - “Yeah! Oh, Yeah!” (Magnetic Fields cover)
The Hive Dwellers - “My Noise” (Superchunk cover)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - “The Numbered Head” (Robert Pollard cover)
Okkervil River - “All You Little Suckers” (East River Pipe cover)
Death Cab for Cutie -”Kicked In” (Superchunk cover)
Times New Viking - “Neighborhood #1″ (Arcade Fire cover)

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
03.06.09