Indie darlings and pro-noun obsessives M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel.
Merge Records is home to some of the planet’s hippest indie-rockers. Arcade Fire, Spoon, and Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard all record for the label. So Friday night’s Merge Records showcase at the Parish was a six-hour marathon of a half-dozen of the company’s artists, and it was one of South by Southwest 2008’s most solid programs. …
This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2008.