May 20th, 2008 is officially Mudhoney Day on the wall calendar in the Sub Pop International Global World Headquarters of America office. I know you’re scratching your head thinking, “How can I, Mudhoney fanatic that I am, celebrate Mudhoney Day?” Well I’ll tell you, presumably inquisitive reader! You pick up TWO new Mudhoney records (and maybe a t-shirt and a poster if you like)! We’re actually quite pleased with ourselves for unleashing The Lucky Ones (CD/LP), a brand new Mudhoney…

Sub Pop’s International Talent-Hound Dept. is almost constantly scouring the globe for the “hottest” and “freshest” new “artists.” On April 22nd, we’re releasing a new album from one such hot discovery: New Zealand’s totally bumpable, Flight of the Conchords. Their self-titled full-length will be available on both CD and, for you connoisseurs of the finer things in fidelity, vinyl LP (with an MP3 download code for the entire album). And for the wall-art lover in all of us: both versions…

On March 18th, Sub Pop will be releasing Only as the Day Is Long, our first record with Sera Cahoone. Sera played in Carissa’s Wierd and played drums on the Band of Horses album Everything All the Time, and her self-titled, self-released debut record was one of our favorites of 2006. Not that we really need to sweeten this pot, but if you pre-order the new CD by March 18th, we’ll take 2 bucks off our already strikingly low price…

On March 4th, rejoice, for you can finally listen to the long-awaited debut from The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia! And, if you pre-order Saturnalia on CD or on glorious, incredibly expensive 180-gram, double LP by March 4th, you’ll get $2 off the regular Sub Pop Megamart price (that’s already $2 off the retail price – generosity is totally our thing). Also, being the deal-sweeteners that we are, we’re going to give the first 200 pre-orderers a CD booklet autographed by both…

It must be a gift from Zeus, or Jesus or whomever to have jobs where we almost never have to feign enthusiasm about the music we’re putting out. On February 5th, we’re releasing Kelley Stoltz’s new album Circular Sounds. And it would be pretty nauseating if we were any more excited about it. It’s that good. But, don’t just take my word for it: buy it! From the here’s-me-trying-to-persuade-you dept.: We’ll toss in a couple of stickers and a button…

With the holidays very much upon us, we are taking a little break. Friday, December 21st will be the last shipping day until January 2nd. You can still give us your money by purchasing our wares, but we won’t be able to get them out to you until after the New Year. You’ll probably be way too stoked on your new toys to notice! Thanks for your patience and have a super happy whatever it is you celebrate!

November 6th is a big day for all you vinyl-collecting Mudhoney types! My friends, on that fateful day, we here at Sub Pop are exceedingly pleased to be offering you a limited-edition LP-only, live Mudhoney record, inexplicably titled Live Mud ..!

Recorded in Mexico City on Pearl Jam’s mobile recording unit in 2005, this very limited live LP captures the Godfathers of Fudge playing their classics, old and new-ish. Customers will also receive a coupon to download all the tracks…

We just flew back from the Pitchfork Music Fest in Chicago and boy are our arms tired! Alissa, Sam, and I spent three days in the Chicago heat to bring you all the best in/some of Sub Pop’s wares and we’d like to extend a hearty THANK YOU! to all that came by the booth to chat and, more importantly, buy some stuff from us. We’ve recently added the limited edition t-shirts we had for sale (Note: we will NOT…

In the new, Spring 2007 issue of Magnet Magazine, there is, fittingly enough (it’s their 75th issue), an article entitled “75 Lost Classics.” The fine folks at Magnet describe it like so!

They’re nobody’s buzz bands anymore. But since 1993, MAGNET has discovered and documented more great music than memory will allow. The groups may be broken up or the albums out of print, but this time, history is written by the losers. Here are 75 of the finest albums…

Here’s the deal:

Starting with our first release in 2007 (the new Shins record) and continuing on until such time as we lose interest or forget, if/when you buy a Sub Pop release in the vinyl format, you will find a coupon enclosed. And on this coupon will be instructions, a url and a unique code for you to download the mp3s for the album you’ve purchased.
Pretty simple.