Sub Pop / Video Network Program Three - S-SUB

Featuring These 16 Videos:

1. Eric’s Trip – Viewmaster
2. Sebadoh – Skull
3. The Spinanes – Noel, Jonah, and Me
4. Sunny Day Real Estate – In Circles
5. Seaweed – Kid Candy
6. The Rev. Horton Heat – Wiggle Stick
7. Combustible Edison – Millionaire’s Holidy
8. Pond – Spots
9. Supersuckers – Creepy Jackalope Eye
10. Fastbacks – Waste of Time
11. Jale – Promise
12. Velocity Girl – I Can’t Stop Smiling
13. Zumpano – The Party Rages On
14. Hazel – Dayglo
15. Mark Lanegan – House a Home
16. Afghan Whigs – Miles iz Ded

Released: August 15, 1974

David Cross / Bigger and Blackerer (DVD) - SP883

The new David Cross album and DVD Bigger and Blackerer was taped during two shows, back-to-back on the same evening at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre. As will be obvious by the packaging (and maybe some of the words here), this title applies to both a CD and a DVD; separate releases in separate formats with the same name. Though both media are housed on a shiny, silver five-inch disc, each is an entity unto itself. And while there is some overlap, each is full of material that appears solely on one or the other. Only by watching the DVD will you learn of Cross’ unique relationship with the deaf community, share his canny insights into the editorial machinations behind the Bible, and marvel at how well a bald, middle-aged white guy can fill out a pair of jeans. Yet one must listen to the CD in order to hear about gastro-intestinal misadventures with his dog Ollie Red Sox, or sing along with “The Sultan’s Revenge,” the swinging, Vegas-style opening number composed by Cross and his good friend Mark Rivers (author of the theme to Mr. Show).

During his illustrious career, David Cross has played recurring roles on the TV programs Arrested Development and The Colbert Report, and won an Emmy Award for his contributions to The Ben Stiller Show. He has also starred in such films as Waiting for Guffman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Bob Dylan fantasy I’m Not There (in which he portrayed Allen Ginsberg), and Kung Fu Panda. Bigger and Blackerer is both David Cross’ third album and second DVD on Sub Pop Records, preceded by the albums It’s Not Funny (2004) and Shut Up, You Fucking Baby! (2002), and the 2003 DVD tour documentary Let America Laugh. He is currently living in exile in the UK, working on the show The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (to be broadcast on IFC in the USA this fall).

The Bigger and Blackerer CD is available here!

We’re also offering a discounted combo-pack of both the Bigger and Blackerer CD AND DVD right here!

Released: May 25, 2010

CSS / CSS & Tilly and the Wall: Appearing Live Tonight - 4071799

From the White Light Media site:
APPEARING LIVE TONIGHT! is a 73 min concert documentary capturing these unique bands’ live show experience. Containing live performances and all access backstage footage APPEARING LIVE TONIGHT! introduces the viewer to CSS and Tilly and the Wall in an intimate way never explored before with these musicians. Exclusive interviews with the bands supplement the footage, covering a range of topics, from each band’s beginnings to the current double billing and what may lie ahead of them in the future.

Released: February 10, 2010

Mudhoney / Mudhoney - Live at El Sol - 4004499

Amazing live DVD from El Sol, Madrid, Spain recorded in 2007.

Released: July 28, 2008

Flight of the Conchords / Flight of the Conchords Season 1 DVD - 4071599

Season One from Flight of the Conchords. All 12 episodes on two discs. These are Grammy Award-winning artists, people.

Released: June 6, 2008

Various Artists / Burn to Shine Seattle - 4000098-9

“Eddie Vedder sits on a box in a the living room of an otherwise empty Seattle house and plays a ukulele …”

It sounds like the lamest set-up to the worst grunge-joke in history, but it’s not. It’s a scene from the latest Burn to Shine DVD. The fifth disc in the series (though number four’s yet to be completed, for mysterious reasons) settles down in a home in Seattle, and true to the video series’ manifesto, brings in a bunch of Queen City locals and gives them two stabs at recording a single song in the living room. The best take makes it to the DVD, no overdubs allowed. Oh yeah, and after the day’s filming the doomed house meets its end. Well, this time around, the demolition crews stay away, and instead of tearing the home down, it’s packed on the back of a truck and hauled to a new lot.

Although the relocation instead of outright destruction of Burn to Shine‘s setting leads to a less spectacular ending than the homes featured in its three predecessors — and saps a lot of the poignancy out of the moment — that doesn’t mean the bands let their end of the deal slip. Curated by Death Cab for Cutie front man Benjamin Gibbard (and including a performance by Ben), Burn to Shine 5 rounds up a great line-up of Seattle bands: Kinski, The Long Winters, Minus the Bear, Harvey Danger, Eddie Vedder, The Can’t See, Jesse Sykes, Spook the Horse, Blue Scholars, David Bazan, Trumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, The Cave Singers, and Tiny Vipers.

If you’ve seen any of the previous installments in the Trixie DVD series, you know what to expect: No-frills honesty and down-to-earth performances. Directors Christoph Green and Brendan Canty have taken the franchise out so there’s no real surprises left, though that hardly means Burn to Shine has reached the end of its lifespan, Seattle is just an extension of that life.

Released: February 20, 2008

David Cross / Let America Laugh - SP556

This is a feature-length documentary of David Cross’s entire North American comedy tour. This IS NOT a concert film.

“What? You mean this isn’t just a straight concert film, but rather a feature-length documentary of David Cross’ entire North American comedy tour? Loaded with unique onstage material that didn’t already appear on his Shut Up, You Fucking Baby CD? Plus tons of baffling encounters with drunks, fans, family members, promoters, interviewers, television sets, walkouts, and fellow comedians? What were we thinking?”

Released: November 4, 2003

Various Artists / Acquired Taste DVD - sp-0714

Though no one would likely ever guess it from watching what we’ll broadly refer to as “Music Television,” we at Sub Pop have, over the past several years, made quite a few music videos. Some of them are even pretty good! Not at all coincidentally, those are the videos we’ve opted to include here. There are 25 of them in all, ranging from the first video Sub Pop made for The Shins’ “New Slang” back in 2001 (featuring, in the recreation of (part of) the cover of Sonic Youth’s Sister, a near-glimpse of Marty’s bush) through Mudhoney’s video for “It Is Us” (which, is so new as to not even be finished as I type this). Also found here are such gems as the best, yet least-seen Hot Hot Heat video (“No Not Now”), that Constantines video with the raccoons and the peanut butter (“Nighttime/Anytime”), the original versions Chad VanGaalen did (he’s an animator too!) both for his own “Clinically Dead,” and for Love as Laughter’s “Dirty Lives.” And, to take the mystery out of the usually purposefully vague category of SO MUCH MORE: Wolf Parade, Ugly Casanova, Rogue Wave, The Thermals, The Album Leaf, The Helio Sequence, Fruit Bats, Rosie Thomas, Low, Jennifer Gentle, Kinski, The Elected, and 2 each from Sleater-Kinney, Iron & Wine, The Shins, and The Postal Service.

Track Listing:

1. The Shins – New Slang
2. Ugly Casanova – Things I Don’t Remember
3. Iron and Wine – Southern Anthem
4. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
5. Hot Hot Heat – No Not Now
6. Constantines – Nighttime/Anytime
7. Iron and Wine – Naked as We Came
8. The Thermals – How We Know
9. The Album Leaf – On Your Way
10. The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes
11. The Shins – Pink Bullets
12. Low – Death of a Salesman
13. Jennifer Gentle – I Do Dream You
14. The Helio Sequence – Don’t Look Away
15. Kinski – Wives of Artie Shaw
16. Sleater-Kinney – Entertain
17. Sleater-Kinney – Jumpers
18. Rosie Thomas – Pretty Dress
19. Chad VanGaalen – Clinically Dead
20. Love as Laughter – Dirty Lives
21. Fruit Bats – Lives of Crime
22. Wolf Parade – Shine A Light
23. The Elected – Not Going Home
24. Rogue Wave – Publish My Love
25. Mudhoney – It Is Us

Released: May 9, 2006

Various Artists / Sub Pop Video Network Volume 1 - SP627

A DVD reissue of Sub Pop's first video compilation, circa 1991. Included here are videos from Mudhoney, the Afghan Whigs, the Dwarves, Nirvana, Tad, and others

Video Listing:
1. Nirvana- In Bloom
2. Mudhoney- This Gift
3. Mudhoney- Here Comes The Sickness
4. Tad- Wood Goblins
5. Tad- Stumblin’ Man
6. Mark Lanegan- Ugly Sunday
7. The Dwarves- Drugstore
8. Thee Headcoats- Girl Of Matches
9. Beat Happening- Hot Chocolate Boy
10. The Fluid- Black Glove
11. Seaweed- One Out Of Four
12. Afghan Whigs- Sister Brother
13. The Walkabouts- Ahead Of The Storm
Plus: bonus footage included on the original VHS release: The Dwarves movie trailer, and At Home With Sub Pop.

Released: November 4, 2003

Various Artists / Burn To Shine 3 - Portland - RS-TRX003

The city of Portland, Oregon sets the stage for the third installment of Burn to Shine. This DVD brings together 12 of Portland’s favorite bands including the shins, sleater-kinney, the thermals, and more to perform in a house that is about to be burned to the ground. A cross section of Portland’s vital music scene is captured in a single day celebrating a moment in time and place.

Performers include:

The Thermals
Quasi
The Planet The
Wet Confetti
Lifesavas
Tom Heinl
Mirah
The Decemberists
The Shins
The Gossip
The Ready
Sleater-Kinney

Released: January 24, 2007