Rose Windows / Rose Windows Landscape Shirt - 2105399

There is an inherent majesty that this Rose Windows t-shirt design imbues that is immediately apparent upon first glance. In fact, this shirt is so picturesque that wearing it would be like personally mailing every single person you come across that day a postcard from the land of mountains and sea that is the beautiful and lush Washington State. What a nice gesture that would be. Lovingly hand-printed on American Apparel t-shirts.

Released: June 25, 2013

Mudhoney / New World Charm - SP1025

The long-running and unrivaled Seattle-based underground rock band Mudhoney released their ninth studio album on April 2nd, 2013. It’s called Vanishing Point and it’s excellent. Exactly none of the songs on this single are from that album. The a-side here, “New World Charm,” was recorded during the same sessions that yielded Vanishing Point, and, though of equally high caliber, impressed itself upon all concerned parties as less of a team player and more of a rugged individualist. The two b-sides are two different versions of the theme song Mudhoney wrote and recorded for the short-lived Discovery Channel TV series Brew Masters. Arguably not for the casual Mudhoney fan, this single will appeal to the Mudhoney completist we should all aspire to become.

Released: May 7, 2013

Shabazz Palaces / Black w/ blue and pink 3D - 2090096

New Shabazz Palaces design printed in blue and pink on a black 50/50 American Apparel tee.

Released: April 23, 2013

Shabazz Palaces / Black w/ tri-color - 2090097

New Shabazz Palaces design printed in red, green, and golden yellow on Black 50/50 American Apparel tees.

Released: April 23, 2013

The Thermals / Desperate Ground - 4062297

The Thermals’ Desperate Ground LP.

Released: April 22, 2013

Father John Misty / Singing Ax - 4097096

J. Tillman’s (AKA Father John Misty) full length, Singing Ax LP.

Released: April 22, 2013

Goat / World Music - 4105699

Goat’s World Music LP.

Released: April 22, 2013

Daughn Gibson / Daughn Face Shirt - 2101099

I know it doesn’t look like much now, but what you are presently gazing at is a future Daughn Gibson t-shirt in none of it’s future glory. What we mean by this is, we have our highly experienced team of designers working around the clock in order to deliver to you, discerning consumer of fine apparel, the best possible Daughn Gibson t-shirt. Why don’t we just wait until we have a finished design?, you’re no doubt muttering to yourself as your cursing us. Well, that’s a very fair question. The reason for this bone-headed stunt is that we want to sell you Daughn Gibson’s forthcoming Sub Pop debut, Me Moan, right this second, and optimally, we’d like to save you a couple of dollars by bundling the CD or LP with this beautiful future t-shirt at a reduced total price and we wouldn’t be able to do that with no t-shirt at all; which is to say, future t-shirt is better than no t-shirt in this case. So, bear with us, trust us, we want you to look good, and this future Daughn Gibson shirt will do the trick. Thank you.

Released: July 9, 2013

Daughn Gibson / Me Moan - SP1010

Me Moan is Daughn Gibson’s second full-length record, and his first with Sub Pop.

If you pre-order Me Moan from your good friends here at Sub Pop, you’ll receive at no extra charge, a limited-edition Daughn Gibson seven inch featuring the songs “Every Night I Fall in Love” b/w “Brandy and Daughn”. Daughn himself describes the single this way: “Way back in the year 2002, I produced two R&B singles for a teenage sister group caled “No Option” out of a small recording booth located in a ballerina studio. As payment I received a Korg D1600, and these two songs were among the first solo things I ever recorded on it." As you can surmise, this is likely going to be a rare piece in future record collections. We’re also going to be giving people who pre-order Me Moan on LP the limited, colored-vinyl Loser Edition. Such is the nature of limited-edition things, when they’re gone, they’re gone, so get your order in quickly!

Note: If you pre-order Me Moan with other releases, your entire order won’t arrive until July 9th, so plan accordingly, please!

Released: July 9, 2013

Condominium / Carl - SP1051

Carl

Released: May 21, 2013

Goat / Dreambuilding - SP1056

Dreambuilidng

Released: June 4, 2013

The Baptist Generals / Heart Shirt - 2061599

This shirt from The Baptist Generals features an anatomically correct illustration of what one can assume is a human heart and goes nicely when bundled with their forthcoming new record, Jackleg Devotional to the Heart, which comes out May 21st.

Printed on American Apparel 50/50 t-shirts.

Released: May 21, 2013

Mudhoney / Mudhoney Easy Street Poster - 3004499

You are looking (possibly gazing) at a limited-edition, screen-printed Mudhoney poster celebrating their future (or more likely past, depending on when you’re reading this) in-store performance at Easy Street Records in Seattle, WA. The things you should know about this are, only 300 were made, only 50 are for sale, and the relatively famous Ed Fotheringham designed and signed them (he only signed the 50 for the store).

Released: March 28, 2013

Hausu / Total - SBL-73070

The beauty of rock-music lies in the expanse of terrain that it encompasses as a definition. Total aims to acknowledge that freedom; it is at times melodious and at others dissonant, all in all, a finished product, a totality. With this in mind: Total is the debut LP from Portland’s Hausu, and the band’s first for Hardly Art.

Released: June 25, 2013

Still Corners / Strange Pleasures Shirt - 2094098

A brand new Still Corners shirt features artwork from their forthcoming sophomore record, Strange Pleasures. Printed on American Apparel. Also available in a bundle with a Strange Pleasures CD or LP.

Released: May 7, 2013

Sub Pop / SP 1000 Shirt Black - 2000051

Sub Pop shirt featuring the artwork from the by the time you read this, probably world-famous SP-1000 release.

Released: April 20, 2013

Shannon and the Clams / Dreams in the Rat House - SBL-73069

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS are rumored to be from NOW in Oakland California and comprised of Shannon Shaw (vocals, bass), Cody Blanchard (vocals, guitar), and Ian Amberson (drums, vocals). Dreams in the Rat House is their first LP for Hardly Art. From pop ballads to doo woppers, bomp stompers and punk rippers, country clippers and some psych-o trippers, it’s all R’n’R and it’s all right there in the Clams’ hooded velvet trick bag. Ya feel lucky, punk?

Released: May 21, 2013

Rose Windows / The Sun Dogs - SP1053

The notion that there is nothing new under the sun can be both a blessing and a curse to musicians. On the one hand, it absolves artists from any nagging sense that they have to reinvent the wheel with every new project. On the other, it makes innovation seem like a fool’s errand. Seattle songwriter Chris Cheveyo embraces this blessing, but, with his compatriots in Rose Windows, he also defies the curse. The band follows Western traditions in their instrumentation, using the basic tools employed in past decades of American and British rock music. Elements of The Band’s folk-infused rock, The Doors organ-driven psychedelia, and Black Sabbath’s blues-based dirges can be heard in Rose Window’s debut album The Sun Dogs. But the septet’s curiosity goes much further than a few well-chosen classic rock records. The band devoured Persian, Indian, and Eastern European music, and incorporated the revelations learned into Rose Windows’ sound. The Sun Dogs challenges the assumption that all creative territories have been mapped out and charted. While Rose Windows aren’t interested in making music of the future, one reviewer was wise enough to note “a sound like this would not be possible in any other time.”

Rose Windows began in late 2010 in a house in Seattle’s Central District, where Cheveyo found himself tiring of the limited palette of his prior heavy, post-rock project. Starting with a few rough demos by Cheveyo alone, Rose Windows took shape as the band amassed members from their circle of musician friends. Rose Windows began playing out, fluidly sharing the stage with underground art-metal bands one night and popular indie Americana acts the next.

In November of 2011, the band began working on The Sun Dogs with local producer Randall Dunn (SunnO))), Boris, Earth, Master Musicians of Bukkake). Dunn’s penchant for musical anthropology proved the perfect match for the band, with their mutual curiosity and artistic ambition broadening the scope of the album. Dynamics were expanded. Boundaries were pushed.

Rose Windows have toured the West Coast several times, and with the release of The Sun Dogs, the band plans much more. In the meantime, they continue their search—delving into archives of long-lost albums, learning more about their craft from renowned local musicians, and charting their own path in an ancient art.

If you pre-order The Sun Dogs on CD or LP from SubPop.com, you’ll receive a Rose Windows patch with your order! Also worth noting, pre-orders of the LP will receive the limited, colored-vinyl Loser Edition of the record. These things are governed by a while supplies last type of law, so order soon to ensure your obtainment of such wonderful things.

Released: June 25, 2013

The Baptist Generals / Jackleg Devotional to the Heart - SP648

On The Baptist Generals’ sophomore album, the word “heart” repeats eight*** times. The Denton, TX band, known for its haunting, claustrophobic take on drunken folk, needed ten full years to bare its hearts—one of which is in the album title, Jackleg Devotional to the Heart, a name that songwriter Chris Flemmons conjured shortly after he recorded, and then trashed, the album’s first attempt in 2005.

Flemmons goes so far as to call this his “love album,” and it’s an apt description—though love through The Baptist Generals’ eyes is plenty complicated. Jackleg‘s hearts don’t resemble valentines. No smooth curls into a final point. The band’s vibraphones, guitarrons and ambient feedback combine like a mess of ventricles, aortas and veins—not to mention, from the sound of it, all of the blood spilled while Jackleg lurched for years toward an eventual finish line.

Call it a love record, then. It’s the kind of love Flemmons had to figure out in the ten years since The Baptist Generals’ critically-acclaimed 2003 full-length debut No Silver/No Gold, a period in which he admits he’s fallen in love with a wild spectrum of music—the Ethiopiques series, saxophonist Archie Shepp, film scorer Meredith Willson, and plenty more. That wide spectrum only befits Jackleg‘s repeated need to buck genre; in fact, the 2005 version of the album hit the trash heap because “it sounded like any other indie rock-type band,” Flemmons admits. Co-produced by Stuart Sikes (Loretta Lynn, Cat Power, The Walkmen, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes) and the band’s Jason Reimer, Jackleg Devotional to the Heart sounds like exactly no one else.

NOTE: if you pre-order this record, your order will not ship until May 21st. This applies to everything in your order – none of it will ship until May 21st. So, if you’d like to order more than just this Baptist Generals CD/LP, it would be good to place separate orders if you’re the type who wants what you ordered, and you want it NOW! Thanks! 

Pre-orders come with a limited-edition, one-sided 7" flexi-single featuring the Baptist Generals track “Fly Candy Harvest”, currently not available to hear elsewhere! Also, if you pre-order the LP, you’ll receive the colored-vinyl, limited Loser Edition. Both of these things are LIMITED, so a while supplies last type of thing applies here. Order now.

Released: May 21, 2013

Beachwood Sparks / The Tarnished Gold Cassette - 4050399

Beachwood Sparks’ 2012 The Tarnished Gold on cassette from Burger Records.

Released: November 5, 2012

King Tuff / King Tuff Cassette - 4097699

King Tuff’s self-titled 2012 record on cassette from Burger Records

Released: November 5, 2012

Happy Birthday / Happy Birthday Cassette - 4085099

Happy Birthday’s self-titled debut on cassette from Burger Records

Released: November 5, 2012

Still Corners / Strange Pleasures - SP1035

Greg Hughes, the driving force behind London’s Still Corners, is not one to rest on his laurels. Despite the critical plaudits hurled at the band’s 2010 debut Creatures of an Hour (“indulgently seductive” opined NME; “an astounding debut” purred Drowned in Sound), Hughes is blessed with the kind of inexorable ardor for refreshing and sharpening his muse that is common to expert sculptors of elegant pop music. “I’ll never be satisfied with any of it, I need to keep trying new things,” he concedes. “Still Corners is The Enterprise, for me.”

Riding that insatiable kinesis over the last two years has resulted in Hughes, along with singing accomplice Tessa Murray, fashioning Strange Pleasures, a devastating sophomore album which is destined to usher Still Corners to a deserved place at dream-pop’s high table. The album was captured in Hughes’ Greenwich studio, with the protean multi-tasker handling all the instruments and penning most of the lyrics. Where its predecessor soared on sugared layers of shoegazing-infused retro-futurism, Strange Pleasures proffers a leaner, more acute extrapolation of ’80s-suffused song and studio craft, navigating a sinuous trajectory between velveteen Angelo Badalamenti noir-pop torch song sophistication, ethereal Cocteau Twins beauty and the glacial, mellifluous territory mapped by Modern English, The Cure and The Passions.

For Hughes, an Austin native whose plans to move to Brooklyn were sidetracked when he fell in love London’s worldly charms, the new album is more than just a stylistic progression from Creatures of an Hour. “Musically, Creatures… was soft and relaxing but it was a massively cathartic record for me. I was destroyed after being in a relationship; it’s all in there, suicide… all that stuff. I needed to calm my soul and Creatures… did that for me. Strange Pleasures is more of an adventure out toward the open seas. It’s an exploring type of record: strange new lands, strange new love…”

Presaged by the soaring “Fireflies” single (Pitchfork’s Best New Track of 9/28/2012), Strange Pleasures brings the Still Corners story up to date.

The vinyl LP comes with a digital download code of the entire record.

People who pre-order Strange Pleasures on CD or LP from SubPop.com will receive a limited-edition scrap book featuring pages taken directly from Still Corners’ lyric book as they were writing the record as well as images from the recording process. People who pre-order the record on LP will receive the colored-vinyl, limited Loser Edition version of Strange Pleasures. And as is the nature of limited things, the sooner you order, the better, as they will run out!

Released: May 7, 2013

We Are Loud Whispers / Suchness - SBL-73068

We Are Loud Whispers is a dreamy duo featuring Sonya Westcott (Arthur & Yu) and Ayumu Haitani (4 Bonjour’s Parties). Suchness, their debut LP, displays intricate electronic orchestration, loops, and effects, while relaying an organic ease. Assembled over emails sent between Seattle and Japan, Suchness transcended geographical and language barriers – and traditional ideas of what a “band” is – in its making.

Released: May 7, 2013

Low / Low Face - 2064395

A brand new Low t-shirt featuring art work from the band’s 2013 release, The Invisible Way, out March 19th. Printed on American Apparel 100% cotton Butter Yellow tees (Women’s Large is Creme colored).

Released: March 19, 2013

Survival Knife / Traces of Me - SP1038

“Traces of Me” b/w “Name That Tune”

Survival Knife hail from Olympia, WA, and this is their first release (if you don’t count a soundboard recording of their first show that has been gathering praise all over the internet). The band – which features two of the three founding members of Northwest legends Unwound – pulls together elements of Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes, Black Flag’s mid-period mathematical lurch, King Crimson and of course Unwound for a taut and catchy post-hardcore crunch. Since their live debut in March 2012, they have shared stages with the likes of METZ, Bitch Magnet, Kinski and Hungry Ghost.

Released: March 5, 2013

The Thermals / Thermals Logo - 2062298

Dark burgundy print on a Grey tri-blend American Apparel tee.

Released: March 5, 2013

The Postal Service / Cloud font - 2059591

Blue on Asphalt Grey. Printed on American Apparel.

Released: April 9, 2013

The Postal Service / GIVE UP White - 2059592

Impress your friends with this classic Sub Pop LOSER-style design. Large Sub Pop logo on back. Printed on American Apparel.

Released: April 9, 2013

Sub Pop / Sub Pop 1000 - SP1000

We STILL want your money!

Yes, I know.

I may as well be a carnival barker; inviting you, valued listener, to step-right-up! If Sub Pop has ever had a mission other than to separate you, gullible customer, from your wallet (and the contents therein), it’s to inspire nasty, compulsive behavior.

We’ve been doing it the same way for over 25 years: by putting out crucial, limited-edition vinyl records.

Back in 1986, before Sub Pop was a company with debt, mass firings and other trappings of corporate culture, our founder, Bruce S. Pavitt, was already plotting a generation’s takeover.

Sub Pop 100, the first vinyl featuring the now-ubiquitous logo, was the first step in his elaborate scheme. Featuring the “spoken word” of Steve Albini and stellar tracks by Sonic Youth, Wipers, U-Men and Scratch Acid among others, Sub Pop 100, with brain-melting cover art by Carl Smool, was a utopian endeavor at its heart: a “greatest hits” compilation for a world that might actually enjoy “underground” music – a mostly laughable conceit in the mid-80s. Its first-and-final pressing was for 5,000 copies.

(We feel your pain, covetous collector, but that shit’s long gone, save the occasional eBay sighting.)

For Sub Pop, 1988 was a year of many firsts: our first office, our first employee, our first bounced check(s) – and that was just April! Sub Pop 200 was conceived over a bottomless trough of beer at the Virginia Inn; twenty masterpieces spread across three twelve inch vinyl EPs with a glossy booklet, this limited edition boxed set was to feature only our friends and our friends’ bands. We then hired an unemployed British actor, re-christened him “Everett True” and bribed a failing music rag to publish our words with that byline. The rest is so much spilt porridge, as they say, and having friends like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney didn’t hurt either.

(Sub Pop 200 is still available on CD, old timer; the classic Charles Burns illustration alone makes it worth the purchase.)

At last, it’s 2013, and the music industry is well into its second decade of epic free fall. Once seen as a colorful holdover from a bygone era, like polio and honor killing, record-making is resurgent, and you, discerning buyer, stand to get fleeced by those who would have you spend extravagantly on something unnecessary or worse just ‘cause it’s Record Store Day.

Don’t be deceived! After all: WE still want your money!

Our Silver Jubilee commemorates 25 years of going out of business, and to celebrate, your friends at the Sub Pop water cooler have put together a compilation worthy of your time, money and admiration – though maybe not in that order. We don’t write pithy, half-baked reviews about the music we love; we commit it to vinyl!

Sub Pop 1000 is our gift to you, patient benefactor, for your unwavering devotion in the face of occasionally wavering good taste. Put together as a labor of love, Sub Pop 1000 carries no further agenda than to provide a crucial, maximal listening experience for its own sake. By that measure, it succeeds and then some. With artists from disparate parts of the globe, our quest for World Domination appears to be complete – again!

Sub Pop 1000 will be a one-time pressing of 5,000 on tricked-out colored vinyl, with cover art by Nathan Fox, a 16-page booklet and an MP3 download coupon. Sub Pop 1000 will be available at your local record store on 4/20/2013 (aka Record Store Day, though Sub Pop 1000 is NOT a Record Store Day exclusive), through this here Sub Pop Internet Shopping Place and at our 25th anniversary Silver Jubilee on July 13th. It’s also available digitally, for whatever THAT’S worth.

Your uncle in the record business,
-Jonathan Poneman

A limited number of copies of the Sub Pop 1000 LP are available through this very website, otherwise, they will be available at your local independent record retailers as an official (but not exclusive) part of 2013’s Record Store Day.

Released: April 20, 2013