In sunny North Carolina, Merge Records’ celebrated their twentieth birthday this year with 33 bands over four nights. Brian Vetter documented the festival, which we called XX Merge.

Though the actual party is over, the fun doesn’t have to stop. Babelgum.com has a special channel for Merge Records’ XX festival that you can see here and we’ve got some Merge records gear to give away as a part of it.

To our first place winner, we have a Merge t-shirt and tote bag. To second place, we have a t-shirt.

All you have to do to win is be one of the first to correctly comment with a valid email address and name 3 bands that played the birthday party.

Merge Records: website

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