Sub Pop / Black Mittens - 30000840

Expressing your appreciation for a record label while at the same time keeping your hands warm has never been easier than with these made-in-northern-Minnesota mittens featuring the name of this very record label (just in case you’re accidentally at the wrong website, we’re Sub Pop). Bundle a pair with the matching Sub Pop Flake hat and add style while saving some money.

PLEASE TO NOTE: These mittens are not formatted to work with the touchscreen of your smartphone, MP3 player, or cigarettes. You must remove at least one of these mittens to operate any of these devices.

Released: September 17, 2012

Sub Pop / Two-Tone Loser Mittens - 30000850

Warm and self-deprecatingly stylish, our new, high-quality Sub Pop Loser mittens were knit in Northern Minnesota by people known for their unsurpassed mitten technology. Bundle a pair with the matching Loser hat and save some money.

PLEASE TO NOTE: These mittens are not formatted to work with the touchscreen of your smartphone, MP3 player, or cigarettes. You must remove at least one of these mittens to operate any of these devices.

Released: September 17, 2012

Sub Pop / Flake Beanie - 30000830

The warming properties of the Sub Pop Flake Beanie are only surpassed by its ability to let Jack Frost know that not only are you not going to take his shit this year, you’re not going to take his shit in style. One size fits all.

Released: September 18, 2012

Sub Pop / Red w/ White Logo - 2000059

Printed on American Apparel 50/50 Shirts

Released: September 17, 2012

Sub Pop / Spanning The Globe Gray - 2000058

Sub Pop Records “Spanning the Globe for Profit” design printed in Red on Athletic Gray American Apparel Tri-blend shirts.

Released: September 17, 2012

Sebadoh / Ocean - 4017697

“Ocean” b/w “Worst Thing”

Michael Yonkers / The Big Balloon - 4050894

“The Big Balloon” b/w “Its You Again”

Released: September 11, 2012

Total Control / Scene From a Marriage - SP1023

Australia’s Total Control grace us with two stellar new tracks of moody garage/post-punk. The band is led by Daniel Stewart (Straightjacket Nation, UV Race) and Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Ooga Boogas), and this single comes on the heels of their excellent, massively-hyped Henge Beat LP and split-LP with Thee Oh-Sees. Both songs are exclusive to this release. “Scene From a Marriage” b/w “Contract”

Released: October 9, 2012

King Tuff / Screaming Skull - SP1024

LA-via-Vermont garage/powerpop wunderkind King Tuff presents two brand new, non-album tracks, hot on the heels of his acclaimed self-titled LP. “Screaming Skull” is a club-ready, guitar-driven dance hit, and “Love Potion” is a glammed-up rock anthem in classic King Tuff form.

Released: October 9, 2012

Father John Misty / FJM Cover - 2097098

New Father John Misty t-shirt, featuring the cover art from Fear Fun printed in full color on a Creme American Apparel 50/50 tee.

Released: August 31, 2012

Black Marble / A Different Arrangement - SBL-73063

A departure from Weight’s calculated coldwave formalism, A Different Arrangement surveys a wide variety of sounds, from radiant, bouncing ebullience to layers of sentimental synth melodies and Stewart’s resonant, reverb-smeared baritone; at times so distinctly manipulated and sculpted as to be otherworldly. All LPs include a download code.

Released: October 9, 2012

Daughn Gibson / Lite Me Up - 4101098

“Lite Me Up” b/w “The Mark of a Man”

On Dull Knife Records

Released: August 20, 2012

Daughn Gibson / All Hell - 4101099

Via the fine folks at White Denim

Daughn Gibson’s debut album is by far the catchiest, most infectious White Denim release, and also quite possibly the strangest, which is certainly saying something. Imagine if Nicolas Jaar edited together a cocaine-country album, with a crooner somewhere between Lee Hazelwood and Roy Orbison on the mic. You know how James Blake brought R&B into the post-techno age? That’s what Daughn is fitting to do with country, no matter who likes it. Shades of Arthur Russell, Scott Walker, Magnetic Fields and Matthew Dear might pop up here or there, but this is a work unlike any other.

01 – Bad Guys
02 – In the Beginning
03 – Tiffany Lou
04 – A Young Girl’s World
05 – Rain on a Highway
06 – Lookin’ Back on ’99
07 – Ray
08 – The Day You Were Born
09 – Dandelions
10 – All Hell

Released: August 20, 2012

J Mascis / J Mascis Indigo - 2085998

Released: August 9, 2012

Sera Cahoone / Deer Creek Cahoone Shirt - 2075298

This is the new Sera Cahoone t-shirt, with eye-pleasing Cahoone related imagery in the form of a “forestry” design, to go along with her new full length release. Printed in thin white ink on a Heather Black 50/50 American Apparel brand t-shirt. Pre-order it now, or bundle it with Sera’s forthcoming LP, Deer Creek Canyon.

Released: September 25, 2012

METZ / Cover Black - 2101598

We present to you, presumed METZ fan, another awesome METZ t-shirt printed on American Apparel t-shirts.

Released: October 9, 2012

METZ / Drums White - 2101599

We present to you, presumed METZ fan, an awesome METZ t-shirt printed on American Apparel t-shirts.

Released: October 9, 2012

Debo Band / Pyramid Shirt - 2000399

This Debo Band t-shirt is printed on natural-colored super soft Indian cotton.

Released: August 6, 2012

Sub Pop / Pitchfork 2012 - 2000060

Do you like mullets, butt-rock hair, spliffs, blunts, and bongs? Totally, us too. That’s why we commissioned accomplished art man Travis Millard to design for us a Sub Pop t-shirt that overcomes the challenging feat of expressing that variety of likes all on the front of one t-shirt. The result was success. Three color print on the front of an American Apparel 50/50 New Silver tee.

Released: August 2, 2012

Sub Pop / Loser, Black w/ white - 2000089

Black shirt with white print and large black Sub Pop logo on back. American Apparel 100% cotton.

Also available on a white shirt here.

Released: January 1, 2000

The Helio Sequence / Negotiations Shirt - 2063398

This is a brand new Helio Sequence t-shirt featuring artwork from Negotiations, their forthcoming LP. Printed on American Apparel’s 100% cotton “Power Washed” tee (except for size Women’s Large, which is the original 100% cotton style). An enzyme wash treatment that simulates 40 typical laundry cycles gives this garment a unique super-soft feel. This tee features a more open neckline and slightly looser fitting body than the original American Apparel 100% cotton T-shirt.

Released: September 11, 2012

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis / Same Love - SP1028

Sub Pop has the great honor of releasing “Same Love,” a powerful new song from Seattle hip hop artists Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, on July 31st as a limited-edition, hand-numbered picture disc. There are only 2,000 of these 7" singles available.

“Same Love,” an appeal for support of same-sex marriage rights, is being released in conjunction with Music 4 Marriage Equality’s efforts to help approve Washington state’s Ref 74 this November. Polling shows that 54% of Washington state residents support same-sex marriage; if the referendum is approved, it could pave the way for marriage equality across the country.

In his accompanying statement, Macklemore says, “My hope is that my personal testimony can help in some way to not only advance the dialogue and approve Referendum 74, but also to help shape a culture of belonging in which all people are equal.”

Please join Sub Pop and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in the fight for marriage equality.

Released: July 30, 2012

Tashi Wada / Gradient - 4000375

Tashi Wada is a San Francisco-based composer and performer whose recent work focuses on sound perception as a basis for direct modes of listening. His work has been performed throughout the United States and Europe, and for several years now he has performed alongside his father, Yoshi Wada. Gradient is two sustained tones, a fourth apart, positioned along a wall, one at each end. The string player produces a very slow glissando from one pitch to the other while physically moving from one pitch to the other – in other words, the string player moves so that pitch distance coincides with spatial distance. The two possible directions form a sculpture-like presence shifting through all of the blue notes. Harry Partch often worked with this type of harmony, so Tashi and Marc Sabat used one of his adapted violas for the recording.

Released: July 26, 2012

Wet Hair / Spilled Into Atmosphere - 4000378

Hey kid, need a lift? Like, right up off the ground? Spill into Atmosphere is the freshest whitecap in the crashing-upward wave known as Wet Hair, the Midwestern duo-cum-trio that’s been holding it down for years as a multi-stop repeat-shop-‘n-hop psych-pop pin-drop right there in the dead center of everything and/or nothing, Iowa City. The Wet Hair discography having spired itself to a respectable vantage – shared releases with such powers as Rene Hell, Naked on the Vague and Peaking Lights, both via frontmensch Shawn Reed’s Night People imprint and others – Spill into Atmosphere becomes the band’s second full-length with De Stijl. There is motion here, oh yeah – circling swirls of lighter-than-air energy, born aloft on propellers of foam yet anchored to earth with thunder-clap rhythms and Reed’s heady bellow. Spill into Atmosphere gives you that feeling you had when you finally mastered the controls on your hovercraft: You’re both in it and above it.

Augmenting the core of singist-synther Reed and drummer Ryan Garbes is Justin Tye (replacing Matt Fenner, from previous album In Vogue Spirit-era), no mere third wheel but Wet Hair’s very own sort of Peter Hook (not counting all the Judas stuff), his unique melodic signature flying in formation with the band’s but also peeling off into flights that relate to the silk wheels of the synths but compliment them, guide them, support and distort and report to them. No longer is the only way up – the only way is every way. And from this altitude, Wet Hair can hear for miles.

Released: July 26, 2012

Nirvana / Bleach Brown - 2003497

Nirvana “Bleach” design printed in black, white, and silver on a Brown 100% cotton Anvil brand tee. * Please note: these are a bit more heavyweight and not quite as soft as the American Apparel shirts we normally use.

Released: July 19, 2012

Nirvana / Vestibule - 2003499

Classic Nirvana “Vestibule” design printed in white on the front and back of a black 100% cotton Anvil brand tee. * Please note: these are a bit more heavyweight and not quite as soft as the American Apparel shirts we normally use.

Released: July 19, 2012

Nirvana / Smile - 2003498

Classic Nirvana “Smile” design printed in yellow on front and back of a black 100% cotton Anvil brand tee. * Please note: these are a bit more heavyweight and not quite as soft as the American Apparel shirts we normally use.

Released: July 19, 2012

Samara Lubelski / Wavelength - 4000376

First Lady of Winds and Stars Samara Lubelski returns to her once and future label home for her sixth album, Wavelength, and the spheres harmonize at the news. Wavelength comprises a dozen new arrowed whispers, Samara’s feathery touch on guitar and microphone now so at balance with the elements that the whole, her music and the air it enters, become inseparable. Don’t be fooled by the persistent “psych-folk” labels she gets — oh, they may be accurate as far as modern usage goes, and that scene is now as it was then, but Wavelength is an electric record through and through: Everything comes to life in light, the guitar speaking in radiant strums and felt-tip leads, her violin calling up everything that glows and grows in the dark. Funny how Nature always seemed to work everything out fine on Her own before we showed up, huh?

Wavelength was engineered and recorded by Samara herself at Sumsilobatem in Germany, aside from the drums being set down by Aaron Mullan at Echo Canyon; Nicolas Vernhes mixed at Rare Book Room. While Wavelength arrives three years after her previous studio LP, Future Slip (Ecstatic Peace), trust that Samara’s been busy in the since, playing violin all over the map (and a fair ways off it) with Thurston Moore’s band; sharing stages and an album, Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon (on Graham Lambkin’s Kye label), with Marcia Bassett; adding to Unrock’s series of live CD-R’s in 2010; and having hand and wand in countless engineering projects. Samara has been a quietly reliable presence in New York’s underground realm for a good many years; if you’re in music in NYC and haven’t crossed paths with her, we think you might be doing it wrong. But a Wavelength is always there for you, all you need do is get on it.

Released: July 25, 2012

Codeine / Barely Real (REISSUE) - 4010799

2xLP+CD reissue of this classic Codeine record originally on Sub Pop, but reissued in 2012 by Numero Group.

Released: June 26, 2012

Codeine / The White Birch (REISSUE) - 4010797

The White Birch is Codeine final release, originally on Sub Pop in 1994, it finds the band it its most realized form. Codeine, and scene peers Galaxie 500, would prove to be a hugely influential act in a genre that would be labeled “slowcore” by music writers and exasperated listeners that had heard nothing of the like before. Codeine’s unique use of somber snail paced minor-key chord progressions, melancholic vocals and quiet/loud/quiet approach to guitar driven rock that never got too heavy, inflected a discordant melody yet never got to light. This NYC group would prove more along the lines of Slint, Rodan and Bastro and other early 90’s groups coming out of the Louisville, KY scene. Yet Codeine infused this lock-tight see-sawing of quiet moody tension building with huge bursts of guitar strum drenched in distortion and pounding drums that transformed songs to epic walls of sound that were as terrifying as they were heart felt. These high quality reissues are further testament to the power contained with in these tracks and the importance of one of the early 90s seminal acts. These records are long overdue for the reissue treatment and we can thank the fine folks at Numero Group for doing them up in such a breath taking manner.

Released: July 10, 2012