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Thanks for checking out our profile! We're in the process of recording our third release on Aux Records. The working title is "Arson is for Lovers." Please check back often, as we'll be posting some preproduction tracks for you to listen to.
Not familiar with us? Here's a bit of info. We rock. We rock hard. We've been rocking hard for the past five and half years. We've played in cities you've heard of and some you'll never visit in your life. We've done a number of east coast tours, including a stint at Warped Tour. We've shared the stage with some of your favorite bands. Once "Arson" drops, we'll be heading back out and it's going to be sick. Hope to see you out!

For the industry folks and music gurus- Scene kids say we sound like Paramore... when Paramore decides to grow up.
So take a listen and drop us a line. If not, no sweat. We're bound to come to your city and harass you in person.
-jeff

Press
"They come up with something that is essentially unheard of in current music, a new sound."
-Neufutur.com

"...its only a short matter of time before the mainstream really catches on."
-Smother.net

"Powerful vocals and top-notch instrumentation."
-PastePunk.com

Smartpunk
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Or direct from Aux Records for $10

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You can download the songs at

Booking winter club dates and spring semester college shows now

Contact: Ulf Oesterle at Aux Records.
ulf@auxrecords.com
(315) 546-3745

Select Press Reviews of When We Fight:

"Imagine if Concrete Blonde grew up listening to the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs"
- The Village Voice (NYC)

"This debut album molds ballsy post-punk and the Toadies' post-grunge into a kick-ass post-something. Merit's influences often get in fistfights: "Sect. 40-16" delves from anthemic punk to jerking scree to low-tuned Helmet worship without warning. But singer/guitarist Brenna Merritt has the lithe voice to make it work, evoking the Butchies' Kaia Wilson, a coherent Courtney Love and Karen Crisis depending on whether she's desperate ("Left of Center"), vindictive ("Heavy Handed") or all of the above in the awesome "Man on A String." In the sparse piano-bass-acoustic guitar number "Morning Breaks," Merritt reveals the folkie of her past pondering what rock'n'roll dreams are made of: "When morning breaks, will you still fight the dawn?"
- Syracuse New Times

Other Aux Records bands:
Anorexic Beauty Queen
caleb micah
Fazeshift
For The Horizon
Honor Bright
The Pilot Lies

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January 7

New Year's Resolutions

So, it's a new year and we have a lot of plans. To be brief, we'll be out on the road a lot more. I think everyone in the band has collectively decided that we're ready to tour harder and longer (that sounds gross but it's true).

We're also busy writing songs for our next release. Tentatively, it will be an all-electric LP. I think we have about six or seven songs in the can for that one. You know, the music can. We're shooting for about 15-20 songs before we decide what goes on the record. So, back to the grind....

Oh, and like all new year's resolutions, we're all going to stop eating junk food and start doing pilates... or step aerobics... or something. Just kidding. We're not doing that. But to set the record straight, everyone in Merit is a firm supporter of healthy living and exercise. We just won't be taking cycling classes together, s'all.

ok, until we see you at the show,
jeff

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December 31

Join the Meritorious

Hey, sign up for our email list so we can keep you up-to-date on the latest happenings. See that email engine powered by reverbnation? it's right above the blog here! go fill it out!

-everyone in merit

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December 16

A Very Merit Christmas

We are excited to offer you all a little something for the holidays. We worked out a deal with our label to offer our latest CD for free for a week (Dec. 18-25) during the holiday season here on purevolume. It's our chance to share what we have done with you and it happens all next week. So stop back and start downloading (for a few days anyway)!

-Merit
Brenna, Hal, Wil & Jeff

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October 11

The October Homestand

We have three home shows is October - a FREE 21+ show this Friday, a cheap ($5) ALL AGES show on the 20th and a pre-Halloween show on the 29th (so come in your costume). After these dates, we're trying to hit the northeast some more. Shows are already lined up in NYC and Vermont with more to come.

<3 Merit

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