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| Sub Pop RecordsOfficial Website: http://www.subpop.com Artists with releases on this label:
Supersuckers, Sebadoh, Seaweed, The Postal Service, Hot Hot Heat, The Thermals, Nirvana, Murder City Devils, Fruit Bats, The Constantines, Wipers, Rosie Thomas, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Shins, The Elected, All Night Radio, Comets On Fire, Wolf Eyes, Frausdots, Iron and Wine, A Frames, Low, Jennifer Gentle, Sleater-Kinney, Holopaw, Chad VanGaalen, Kinski, Wolf Parade, Mudhoney, Band of Horses, Kelley Stoltz, CSS, Reverend Horton Heat, Dead Moon, The Album Leaf, Dntel, Pissed Jeans, Handsome Furs, The Dwarves, The Helio Sequence, Grand Archives, Flight of the Conchords, No Age, Foals Recent ReviewsRecent NewsJoey Cape / Jon Snodgrass (Europe) Joey Cape and Jon Snodgrass of Armchair Martian/Drag the River are headed to Europe for a three week tour beginning in March of 2009.…On Sleater-Kinney reunion: "Not ruling it out, but not anytime soon" In a recent interview with Pitchfork, Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein discussed the possibility of a reunion for the critically acclaimed band whose final album The Woods appeared on a number of Punknews.org Lists for 2005: Yeah, I don't think we're ruling it out. But it's not going to be any time soon. We probably wouldn't use the word "reunion" [laughs]. We would say that the hiatus is off.…CBS prevents No Age from performing in Obama shirt According to a…Sub Pop signs Obits (ex-Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes) Sub Pop has signed Brooklyn, NY-based Obits. Notably, the band features Rick Froberg, former vocalist of both Hot Snakes and Drive Like Jehu. The group is working with Girls Against Boys' Eli Janney and Geoff Sanoff at Brooklyn's Seaside Lounge studio on their forthcoming Sub Pop debut. Some recordings from the band can be found on their myspace page.…Sunny Day Real Estate live on 120 Minutes, circa 1994 MTV has posted a series of live performances from Sunny Day Real Estate recorded for their alternative/indie show 120 Minutes. The set, shot in 1994, features the beloved band performing two tracks from their genre-defining debut, Diary as well as the track "Rodeo Jones" which was a demoed in the same era but eventually appeared on LP2. You can check out "Rodeo Jones," "Seven" and "In Circles"…The Thermals debut two new demos Portland-based The Thermals, who dominated year-end lists in 2006 with their album, The Body, The Blood, The Machine, have posted the first two demos from their forthcoming album. The tracks, "I Let It Go" and "You Dissolve," are set to appear on their new record, Now We Can See and you can check them out on their Myspace page. The band parted ways with the latest of its drummers in March.…Fleet Foxes: "Winter Hymnal" Fleet Foxes have posted the new video from their 2008 self-titled album on Sub…Megan Jasper of Sub Pop looks back at the label's notable releases In this week's Bigger Than the Sound, writer James Montgomery spoke with Megan Jasper of Sub Pop. The feature coincides with the notable indie label's 20th anniversary, and Jasper as both the label's first receptionist and current Executive Vice President, looked back on some of the label's formative and notable releases. The article looks back at Soundgarden's debut EP, Screaming Life, Mudhoney's Superfuzz Bigmuff,…The Thermals working on new album The Thermals, who dominated year-end lists in 2006 with their album, The Body, The Blood, The Machine, have announced plans to record the follow up: Currently there are no Thermals shows booked. This means only that we are making a new record. We will be recording it in August, mixing it in September, leaking it in October, whining about said leakage in November, officially releasing it (cassette only) in January, breaking up in February, and finally re-uniting in late March for a reunion tour that will last…Sub Pop announces monthly single club Sub Pop has announced the third in their singles club series. The series will run monthly for one year, beginning with the first single on August 15th. Only 1,500 singles subscriptions will be sold, and each single will include both the 7-inch and a digital download code. The whole year runs $75.00 for North Americans and $90.00 for people worldwide. This year’s Sub Pop Singles Club will include records with music from such artists as Om, Unnatural Helpers, Tyvek, Black Mountain, Black Lips, Arthur & Yu, Mika Miko, Blues Control, Notwist and others… |