The Rock*A*Teens & The Love Language returning to Carrboro next week

Photo by Kevin Norris

After blowing the roof off of the Cradle last week on the second night of the Merge 25 festival, Georgia band The Rock*A*Teens will return to Carrboro for proper headlining show with local favorites The Love Language.

The two bands will play the Cat's Cradle Back Room on Wednesday, August 6. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketfly for $10.

Check out a video of The Rock*A*Teens performing "Never Really Ever Had It" at the 40 Watt Club in Athens earlier this month below and photos and a write up of their set at Merge 25 HERE. Check out a write-up and photos of The Love Language's set HERE.

Merge 25 Night 2: The Clientele, The Rock*A*Teens

All photos by Kevin Norris

As night two of Merge 25 pressed on the recently revived London band The Clientele took the stage as a trio to share their dreamy, reverb-soaked, melancholy pop with the packed Cat's Cradle crowd.

The band stuck to their first three albums for their Merge 25 set, kicking things off with "We Could Walk Together" and the always excellent "Since K Got Over Me." Though the band's music is quite mellow, some of the band's fans are pretty intense. One person in the crowd yelled out between songs, "Make more records." The band sounded as solid as ever as they rolled through their set with seeming ease as if their four-year hiatus had never been.

Merge Records to reissue The Rock*A*Teens' 'Sweet Bird of Youth' on vinyl

Continuing the year of remastered reissues of albums from the label's back catalog celebrating their 25th anniversary, Merge Records next album up is The Rock*A*Teens 2000 album Sweet Bird of Youth.

The album will be reissued on vinyl as a double LP on June 3. The release will also include a bonus download of one of their last live shows before disbanding that was recorded at the Caledonia Lounge in Athens, GA on December 30, 2002. Check out the album track list as well as the live show track list below.

The Rock*A*Teens are reforming to play the Merge 25 Festival at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro on Thursday, July 24. Superchunk and The Clientele are also confirmed for the bill that night. Tickets for that night are available via Ticketfly for $49.

First Merge 25 Festival acts announced, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bob Mould, The Clientele, Lambchop & more

We've been talking about the Merge Records 25th anniversary festivities for the last few months with the regular announcements of deluxe reissues from the Merge catalog and the 25K road race happening this Saturday, March 22, but now the big news is starting to emerge. The label had already announced that the big festival celebrating their anniversary would take place in Carrboro (and also Durham) on July 23-26, but now we have the first band announcements and other details to share.

The festival will include Neutral Milk Hotel, The Clientele, Wye Oak, Caribou, Lambchop performing Nixon, The Rock*A*Teens, Bob Mould, Ex Hex and many more yet to be announced. The first night, July 23, will be at the newly renovated Baldwin Auditorium on Duke's campus in Durham, and then July 24-25 will be at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro. The final day, Saturday, July 26, will be a full day of music outdoors in Carrboro (outdoors is all we've got right now but it certainly bodes well for the possibility of big names).