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Chad VanGaalen: Soft Airplane
From Stevie Wonder and Todd Rundgren to Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, self-sufficiency in recording... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsCSS: Donkey
CSS' name, an abbreviation of the Brazilian-Portuguese phrase... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe Reign of the Profane
Though CSS has shed the overt pop of its 2006 debut (which spawned the highest ever Billboard charting single for a Brazilian artist, “Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex”), the true nation of origin for the electro-punks’ Sub Pop follow-up, Donkey, is still the dancefloor... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesBlitzen Trapper to release Furr this fall
Portland, Ore.-based Blitzen Trapper will release its fourth album, Furr, on Sept. 23. It will be the band's Sub Pop debut, following last year's Wild Mountain Nation.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSub Pop Fest tickets, Singles Club subs still up for grabs
In case you haven't already heard, Sub Pop (the Seattle-based bastion of indie-rock that has released work by everyone from Flight of the Conchords to Nirvana) has survived two decades. And it's damn proud of it, too. So proud, in fact, that the label is throwing itself one hell of a birthday bash, the Sup Pop 20th Anniversary Festival, and unleashing a slew of other goodies in honor of itself. The two-day music festival is scheduled for July 12- 13 at Seattle's Marymoor Park, but tickets are still available.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe Shins talk new label, side project
The Shins may still be willing to...wait for it...change your life, but now they’re doing it on their own terms. After being the first Sub Pop band to chart a top 10 album in its first week of release (Wincing The Night Away debuted at number two in 2007), it looks like Mercer and the boys will release their fourth full album on the frontman’s own Aural Apothecary label.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSub Pops!: Iron & Wine, Wolf Parade, more to play SP20
On April 1, this showed up on SubPop.com: "Today, and this is no April Fools joke, is Sub Pop Records’ 20th Anniversary. When I asked Jon Poneman, aka The Jonald, how it feels to turn 20 he responded, 'The company maintains bowel movements at regular intervals so we’re not nearly as grouchy as some other labels our age.' I couldn’t put it better myself, but this is coming from a man who has never once used the bathroom in the office." If that's not cause for celebration, we don't know what is. So then, the indie rock name-makers, "in an... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRust Never Sleeps
Labels, hip-hop and more... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesSub Pop digital store open for business
Earlier today, The Daily Swarm posted an interesting little AP news item regarding the effects of digital music sales on indie labels. The main gist of the story: it's becoming more difficult for labels to make money off of digital sales through large-scale retailers. So here comes Sub Pop, as established and beloved an indie imprint as they come, starting up its own digital store. It seems like a logical decision: axe out the middleman and, like the alternative rock acts that built Sub Pop, do it yourself. The .mp3 downloadable albums on SubPop.com go for $9.90, down from the... read more
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