Merge had a banner year in 2010, with great records from the likes of Superchunk, Spoon, Arcade Fire, and way too many others to mention. So instead of mentioning them, how about we just stream ‘em to you, in this special “Merge 2010″ streaming mix? So click and get the mix playing, then hop on over to the Merge Store and pick up some copies of these swell records for yourself– or for your loved ones… it *is* the holiday season after all. Matter of fact, you can get 10% off your holiday order of $50 or more by entering the code MRGXTEN at checkout to invoke the “Merge Friends & Family Discount.” Orders over $150 will even net you a free Merge tote (which is “totes cute,” apparently).

A Piece of Monologue points out a 1975 David Bowie documentary.

Yesterday's updates to the list of 2010 year-end online music lists included the Telegraph's best music books, Piccadilly Records' albums of the year, and more.

Annie Lennox talks to The Big Issue about her new holiday album, A Christmas Cornucopia.

Stream a new song by film director David Lynch at the Guardian Music Blog.

Drowned in Sound interviews Interpol's Paul Banks.

Marc Masters, author of the book No Wave, has started curating a "museum of indie rock" collection on Flickr.

Sony Music had Blogger delete Bradford Cox’s uploaded songs. Original songs. That he wrote and recorded himself. In his bedroom. They cited “piracy.”

East River Pipe – “Cold Ground” From We Live In Rented Rooms, the 7th LP from F.M. Cornog — aka East River Pipe — out 2/11 from Merge.

Jaakko Pallasvuo

Heists - “High Tide” There's a man somewhere who has robbed a thousand stars. A thief with small hands. He's got Mark E Smith's gold tooth, Woods' old moccasins, two mop tops. He sits in his cellar apartment, surrounded by artifacts, records on the turntable. He flicks David Bowie's silver dollars at candlesticks he filched from the National. He even steals his lunch. The thief knows he will come to nothing, but at least he had taste.

[Heists are from Montreal. They have no MySpace page. You probably know them. And they're probably reading this.]

BRAIDS - “Lemonade (Green Go remix)” If you are going to get famous, better justify it. Build a mansion encrusted in emeralds, a swimming-pool filled with heavy water. Loose piranhas, peacocks, white-breasted thrashers. Obtain the kindest, truest friends - seat them in your breakfast nook, with pancakes. They can be drunk or sober, so long as sometimes they are sober or drunk. Replace the lawn with rainclouds. Tie fires to shoelaces. Replace every great lake with a small, miner-filled, gold mine. Oh - and buy new music on CDs, determined young things from Montreal, and remix them with your VCR.

[BRAIDS are from Montreal. This is their MySpace page, this is their blog, their album is due out soon on Flemish Eye and Kanine. / This is Green Go.]

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