Et voila!
― schwantz, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
so ... anybody planning on going to this: http://www.subpop.com/sp20 ?
halfway tempted to jump a last minute plane out there just to see The Fluid, Green River and the Vaselines .. but there also a number of clunker bands or bands I've just plain never heard
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
No Codeine or Green Magnet School... no credibility.
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Blood Circus, as I keep saying.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not even sure if green magnet school were even on sub pop to be honest...
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Some sort of co-release, I think.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
The Fluid is more than enough cred. Man, they ruled live.
― QuantumNoise, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
gms had two sub pop 45s, one of their own and one split with six finger satellite..
― electricsound, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
the sleeper of the Sub Pop weekend is gonna be the Gutter Twins show on Sat evening, kind of a separate show. and i know there's lots of great stuff at the fest (wish i could go but halfway across the US), but boy, do the Gutter Twins kill it live.
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought they had some big falling out on tour a few months ago and were finished?
― akm, Thursday, 3 July 2008 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
uh. i had no idea. apparently not though!
(what's the source on that?)
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Caught a glimpse of Sub-pop's version of cease and desist (for the newly leaked Mogwai album)
"Hiiiiiii guyssssss……
Isn’t this a wonderful album? We at Sub Pop think so, too. We like it so much that we’re paying a pretty penny to put it out. Sorry we have to be a Grinch about these matters, but we kindly request that you remove this (and all subsequent Sub Pop) release.
We do appreciate your enthusiasm, and we hope that our request (we don’t like the word demand, because we’re the cuddly type of suits) will not discourage you from buying our humble wares when it is released on 2/15/11.
Thank you, and have a good day."
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
wow sub pop still puts out albums huh
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
why wouldn't they?
― Scilk Mahouthy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
future is in youtube-and-lathecut-only releases
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
everyone knows that cassingle will be the only format that matters in the 2k11
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 January 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
it's super annoying and sad that Sub Pop has to pretend that they're the ones in the wrong by politely asking a poor innocent uploader to remove an album that hasn't been released yet
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
like Matador would be all "take our fucking album down, you clown"
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
we’re the cuddly type of suits
this is not comforting.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 3 January 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
keep misreading that as cuddly type of sluts
― assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
now you're talking
― BIG HOOTY aka the Sapperticker (electricsound), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the smarm factor is so high in that email. i prefer WGW's proposed response; it's tougher, but refreshingly straightforward.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 3 January 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe assclown, instead of just clown. idk; that's just the litigator in me.
Poor innocent uploader was just sharing the new Mogwai with his closest 1,390,000 friends :-/
They were just gonna open up an AIM window and talk about it at once.
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
man i would be totally listening to blood circus right now
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Go nuts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCCZmJ4hA8k
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not surprised by that Sub Pop letter, it just shows me (again) that Seattle is a city full of passive-aggressive pussies.
― van smack, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
it is! and thanks, ned.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
still corners AND memoryhouse? i might start liking sub pop again..
― vanilla friedman (electricsound), Monday, 7 March 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Niki & The Dove too (but that may only be of interest to me).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 March 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
don't know em, will have to listen
― vanilla friedman (electricsound), Monday, 7 March 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Gawd, I got some free Sub Pop stickers from friends at a record shop and couldn't believe how difficult it was for me to decide whether I should stick them anywhere or not. In full realization of being shallow, I am somewhat of a sticker guy and kinda developed an infatuation for them in my early 8-yr old skateboarding days... meaning, stickers were like, life man.
Or at least made stuff "look cool". I currently have a Merge sticker on the back of my mp3 player.. and have like 20more if any ilxors want some (pay fer ur own postage).
Anyways, I eventually threw the SP stickers away b/c I kinda had little respect for the label. They're great at defining their own niche, but I cannot think of a single act I like on the label. A whole bunch of bands I've listened to albums of maybe once, twice... never more. Just mediocre retro-act after another.
― Crouching Seward, Hidden Raggett (kelpolaris), Monday, 7 March 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I laughed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/virginia-tech-nirvana-letter_n_3653449.html
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 28 July 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
They put out some bullshit, but they put out some great stuff too.I meanP I S S E D J E A N SSub Pop still got it.
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 28 July 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
https://cascade.madmimi.com/promotion_images/0786/1789/original/SUB-POP-USA-cover.jpg?1413218591
Bruce Pavitt's SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology 1980–1988 Features Essays by Calvin Johnson, Ann Powers, Larry Reid, Gerard Cosloy, and Charles R. Cross; "The Insight Into This Period of Rock History Could Only Have Been Delivered by Bruce"—Kim Thayil, Soundgarden."
Bazillion Points Books is proud to announce the Nov. 15 release of SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology 1980–1988, (ISBN 978-1-935950-11-0) by Bruce Pavitt, an unprecedented, 400-page cross-genre survey of American independent music during the 1980s. Combining all nine issues of Pavitt's Subterranean Pop zine and six years of monthly Seattle Rocket newspaper columns, the book chronicles the rise of regional American indie pop, punk, hardcore, art/noise, metal, spoken word, hip hop, and rock’n roll—over 1,000 bands all told—alongside Pavitt's own path as DJ, zine editor, record store owner, music booster, and ultimately founder of Sub Pop Records.
In addition to unseen photographs by Charles Peterson and Michael Lavine, and early artwork by Charles Burns, Jad Fair, and Lynda Barry, the book includes indie perspective and regional background via original essays by Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening/K Records/Dub Narcotic Sound System); Ann Powers (NPR Music; Los Angeles Times); Larry Reid (Fantagraphics); Gerard Cosloy (Conflict, Matador Records); and Charles R. Cross (the Rocket, Heavier Than Heaven).
http://www.bazillionpoints.com/shop/sub-pop-u-s-a-the-subterraneanan-pop-music-anthology-1980-1988-by-bruce-pavitt
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
that looks neat!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
https://bandcamp.com/labels
20$ a month they pay
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Disappointing. Thought it'd be like a one-stop Love Battery/Velocity Girl shopping experience.
― how's life, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
This is oddly appropriate, as the Sub Pop brand has the charm/personality of an airline: https://variety.com/2018/music/news/sub-pop-records-branded-airplane-1202894579/
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Can someone explain to me why Sub Pop is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week?
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 13 August 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
n/m it's the anniversary of them being a limited company or something
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 13 August 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
Mark Arm is 68 years old and still shaped like a 12-year-old (Mudhoney at #SPF30 ) pic.twitter.com/6KfgqhoSid— President Bran Warms (@awardtour) August 12, 2018
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link