A selection of articles, videos and podcasts that look back at the Merge 25 festival and the label's anniversary.

Google Play documentary: Merge Records - 25 Years in 24 Minutes

Spin: Merge Records Turns 25: A Timeline of the Beloved Label's History

Rolling Stone: The 15 Best Things We Saw at Merge 25

Paste Magazine: Merge 25: The 25 Best Records on Merge, Year by Year

AV Club: Merge Records’ Laura Ballance curates a 25-hour playlist of the label’s best LPs

Independent Weekly: Merge is big business, but the label still helps power local music

T Magazine: Eleanor Friedberger, Superchunk and Other Indie Stars at the Merge Records Anniversary Party

Dinner Party Download

Jon Wurster on the Etiquette Beat

PopMatters: Merge's Silver Age: 25 Essential Albums Over 25 Years

Creative Loafing (Atlanta): The Rock*A*Teens and others celebrate Merge Records’ silver anniversary

Independent Weekly: Working for you: Merge Records at 25

The modest, mild origins of perhaps the only complete Merge collection

Washington City Paper: DC Goes to NC: Merge 25 Festival

Triangle Music: Listen to Teenage Fanclub perform on the Dinner Party Download