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Wed, March 17, 2010, 4:53 PM
Our very close, personal friends in the, let’s be honest, breathtaking band Low have collaborated with the choreographer Morgan Thorson on a dance/music performance called Heaven, which will be presented at On the Boards here in Seattle April 1-4. You can find out more and buy tickets here and the full details are covered below in the press release from the folks at On the Boards. This thing sounds incredibly cool and we’d all be silly to miss it.
Plus! Both…
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Tue, March 16, 2010, 10:47 AM
If you pre-order I Will Be by March 30th, you’ll receive a reissued CDR of her out-of-print Zoo Music EP, featuring 5 early Dum Dum Girls tracks. You’ll also get Dum Dum Girls stickers and probably some other stickers too. OH! I almost forgot—if you pre-order the record right this moment, you can also listen to it—RIGHT THIS MOMENT—via a link to a full album stream. So those three reasons, plus the 11 amazing reasons on the record (the songs…
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Mon, March 15, 2010, 3:24 PM
Sohrab from Obits has been chatting, on the wall of the Obits’ Facebook page, with this 16 year-old kid about Sub Pop being 49% owned by Warner, what “indie” means, etc. And, though that summary sounds incredibly tired, it’s a pretty good conversation. Here it goes:
BJM:
Obits, what do you think about the fact that Sub Pop is 49% owned by Warner?
Obits:
Wow. Is this part of a Seger-Saget-Sub Pop conspiracy?
It’s a complicated question. Short answer is we signed…
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Mon, March 15, 2010, 11:58 AM
The debut full-length by Happy Birthday comes out tomorrow, March 16th! As with many of the records we release under the Sub Pop imprimatur of medium quality, we are very enthusiastic about this album and this band. So enthusiastic, in fact, that we would like to encourage you to buy this album from us. And, in order to convince you of the necessity of having Happy Birthday in your life, we are going to the following great lengths…
- We are…
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Thu, March 11, 2010, 10:50 AM
Maybe you remember us telling you back in January about the new travel video series called “Indie Asia: On Tour with Handsome Furs” which partners CNN with our very own Handsome Furs.
In case you are a bit hazy on the details, this is the series follows Handsome Furs throughout their first tour across Asia, through China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Thailand and highlights the pretty unique footage that the band captured using their own Flip cameras. Installments have been…
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Wed, March 10, 2010, 4:33 PM
In addition to our awesome SXSW showcase on March 18th at The Galaxy Room (508 E 6th St,) we thought we would compile a handy dandy list of all the additional shows our bands are playing throughout the festival.
See ya in Austin!
Wednesday – March 17th
Happy Birthday
End of an Ear Instore/Record Release Party!(2209 South First Street)
Time: 4:00 pm
GvB/ True Panther Party @ Charlie’s (1301 Lavaca Street)
Time: TBD
Male Bonding
*Lose Control Party @ Vice (302 E 6th…
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Tue, March 9, 2010, 10:39 AM
IN HONOR OF THIS SPECIAL DAY, SUB POP RECORDS WILL RELEASE A MARVELOUS RANGE OF MUSIC PRODUCTS, AVAILABLE ONLY IN PARTICIPATING RECORD STORES
Record Store Day In-Store Performances by Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, No Age, Male Bonding & Dum Dum Girls
Originally conceived in 2007 as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally, the first Record Store Day took place on April 19, 2008. Now celebrated…
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Mon, March 8, 2010, 11:11 AM
Binki Shapiro, vocalist and multi instrumentalist in Los Angeles band Little Joy, has put together an online auction for Haiti relief. Here’s a note from Binki herself.
“My name is Binki Shapiro, and I play in the band Little Joy. In an effort to raise money for the relief efforts in earthquake-devastated Haiti, I’ve rallied a bunch of artists to contribute custom-made artwork — t-shirts, tote bags and other personalized items — for the Crafts For A Cause auction. All…
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Thu, March 4, 2010, 12:36 PM
March 16th is going to be a sweet day for people who love sweet tunes. What I’m talking about is, a band called Happy Birthday and their debut CD/LP (with accompanying digital download code) on Sub Pop Records. Not only will you receive a CD or LP with 11 astounding gems with your pre-order, you’ll also get the record for the special pre-order price of $10 for the CD and $14 for the LP. And you know what? That’s not…
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Wed, March 3, 2010, 4:58 PM
“Flight of the Conchords has had a great relationship with the U.K. in the past. In some ways you could say we got our start there, and we were always over at the U.K’s house. But then one night, some heated words were said and Flight of the Conchords left in a huff. We haven’t been back since. That was five years ago. Now, we’re coming back to say we’re sorry. We’ll also be visiting our old friend Ireland, an…
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Tue, March 2, 2010, 11:44 AM
Happy March, y’all! I am so glad to be done with February. It seems like such a bogus month what with its handful of days. I like a month with all 31 days. A month that knows it could stop at 30, but spits in the face of slowing down. Also, when there are lots of days in a month we can release more records more of the time. For instance, March 2 we release Fight Softly by "The Ruby…
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Tue, March 2, 2010, 10:48 AM
The good folks over at Baeble.com recorded some fantastic footage of Beach House’s record release show at The Bell House back in January (1/26/10, to be exact) and it is premiering today on baeble.com along with an interview + a couple Beach House contests thrown in there for good measure, all for you to check out! Tickets for this show sold out pretty fast, so unless you were among the lucky few hundred in attendance that night, this is your…
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Tue, February 23, 2010, 10:25 AM
Though it might strain the limits of imagination to even consider the possibility of Sub Pop’s early 2010 release schedule getting any busier or better, we are exceedingly pleased and proud to announce that we’ll be releasing the new CocoRosie album Grey Oceans on May 11th!
For those of you not already well-acquainted with the band, CocoRosie are two American-born sisters, Sierra and Bianca, who started making music together in Paris in 2003. Their first album, ??La Maison de…
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Mon, February 22, 2010, 1:44 PM
Beach House stopped by AOL last month to record a Spinner Interface session! This is a first for Sub Pop! Not only does the band look extra snazzy but, and perhaps more importantly, they sound fantastic. The session is posted today on the AOL homepage and you can find the entire session at the AOL Spinner Interface page.
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Mon, February 22, 2010, 11:18 AM
Are you like me? Would you like to shield yourself from the cold and at the same time display your affection for this very record label? Well, we here at this very record label have come up with a solution to this problem. We have found that by creating hooded-style sweatshirts made from the luxurious, American Apparel, poly/cotton blend that proudly fly the Sub Pop logo on the chest, we could be both warm, and representin’ at the same time…
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Fri, February 19, 2010, 4:53 PM
AMP, All-ages Movement Project, is an organization that helps to support existing music communities as well to help build music communities when help is needed. They connect young people with music however they’re able. We love what these guys do and we’re psyched to share some exciting news with you. AMP has been chosen as a contender for a $50,000 prize in the Refresh Everything campaign. Every day in February, you have the chance to cast your vote.
All you have…
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Fri, February 19, 2010, 10:51 AM
Beach House stopped by the WXPN studios to tape a session for World Cafe with David Dye and it’s airing today! You can access the stream at XPN.org or find World Cafe on your local NPR station.
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Wed, February 17, 2010, 4:58 PM
In addition to readers of Exclaim.ca and Exclaim! Magazine from across Canada recently voting their debut album I Blame You the 9th best punk album of 2009 (details here), our friends in Obits are soon headed to Europe on tour! This will mark their first-ever shows in such cities as… Freiburg! Limoges! Bilbao! And others!
The full slate of Obits’ European tour dates can be found here and then also here…
Feb 23 Theaterkeller, Göttingen, Germany
Feb 24 The Great Räng Teng…
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Wed, February 17, 2010, 2:23 PM
At least that’s what the Google translate tool told me that the title of this post should be. Looks like growing up on the border of Mexico and 8 years of Spanish class didn’t work out so good! Anyway, Male Bonding are not only coming over for a bunch of dates with Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, the Soft Pack and SXSW but they’re also going to play the Todd P festival in Monterrey! The line up for the MtyMX…
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Wed, February 17, 2010, 2:07 PM
Sub Pop and Hardly Art SXSW Showcase 2010!
Avi Buffalo, Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore, Dum Dum Girls, Happy Birthday, Jaill, Male Bonding, and The Ruby Suns will all be heading down to Austin this March for the 2010 South by Southwest music festival/conference/opportunity to eat BBQ.
As you can tell by our snazzy flyer, we will once again be partnering with our good friends Hardly Art on a showcase to, one can only hope, end all showcases.
You should really go
*Sub…
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Wed, February 10, 2010, 9:55 AM
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore are fighting Mountaintop Removal, a radical form or strip mining that has destroyed nearly one million acres of central Appalachia, join their fight by purchasing their new record, Dear Companion. Dear Companion is a collaboration between three Kentucky musicians; the songs were written and performed by Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore, produced by and featuring Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket and Monsters of Folk. Recorded in the first half of 2009 in…
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Tue, February 2, 2010, 6:07 PM
As we all know, February is for L-O-V-I-N-G, and that’s why we perfectly timed the following three fantastic records for February release. First up is The Album Leaf’s third full-length for Sub Pop called A Chorus of Storytellers. It’s their best album yet – we LOVE it. Did you know that people LOVE The Album Leaf so G-D much that they sometimes get related tattoos? They do! And there are a lot of them – it’s a thing. Read about…
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Mon, February 1, 2010, 4:26 PM
You may be aware that the Grammy Awards were held yesterday in Los Angeles, California. You may, like me, have sat and watched the televised portion of the show (occasionally wincing, frequently confused, often drinking beer). Or, you may, like many people (if their updates on Facebook and Twitter are to be believed), have intentionally missed the Grammy’s altogether. Whatever your opinion of the awards, it’s clear they are kind of a big deal and give artists an opportunity to…
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Wed, January 27, 2010, 12:55 PM
Continuing our early 2010 blitz of really very high-quality record releases, on February 2nd we’re offering The Album Leaf’s A Chorus of Storytellers and the first release from Sub Pop/Next Ambiance, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba’s I Speak Fula. If you pre-order these records, wonderful things will happen to you, wonderful things like a bonus Album Leaf CD/Video, or a terrifically low introductory price of $10 for I Speak Fula. So, unless you’re a masochist (which is just sick, btw…
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Fri, January 22, 2010, 4:31 PM
If you’re in Seattle, come to the Moore Theater on February 11th for an event called, “Defriending Cancer”. The night will be hosted by Todd Barry and there will be other performances by Neil Hamburger, Tim Heidecker, Natasha Leggero, Eugene Mirman and Tig Notaro. There will also be musical performances by James Mercer from The Shins and Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse.
All of the proceeds from the event will go directly to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Sub Pop…
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Wed, January 20, 2010, 12:21 PM
Yesterday the folks at the new CNN.com announced the launch of a couple of new online video series, and one of those video series focuses on our own Handsome Furs! It’s called Indie Asia: On Tour with Handsome Furs and follows Dan and Alexei from Handsome Furs during their first tour across Asia, through China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Thailand. They took two Flip cams with them on this tour and came up with some super cool stuff. This band…
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Wed, January 20, 2010, 11:22 AM
We here at Sub Pop Records will let many Tuesdays go by without even hinting at a release—no singles, no digital-only EPs, no nothing. Not this coming Tuesday, however. No, we are carpe-ing some serious diem on January 26th. We’re putting out 3 Sub Pop debut full-lengths from Beach House, AFCGT (A Frames & Climax Golden Twins), and Retribution Gospel Choir. **The Beach House CD/2xLP comes with a DVD featuring a video for each song on the album, and if…
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Tue, January 19, 2010, 9:58 AM
Starting right now and going until January 26th (not at all coincidentally, the day that Teen Dream comes out) NPR will be offering you, through their “First Listen” program, the opportunity to stream, in its entirety, the new Beach House album, Teen Dream!
You can listen right here!
Additionally, as of yesterday, GorillavsBear will be streaming a new video everyday this week from the Teen Dream bonus DVD. The band picked various directors, (including the director of the Fleet Foxes’ videos, Sean…
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Fri, January 15, 2010, 9:46 AM
Most of you reading this are probably not aware, but there are a lot of really intense (and mightily appreciated I might add) Album Leaf fans who have chosen to make the band’s logo a permanent part of their physical identity through the ancient art of tattoo. (Check out photos of these fan tattoos over in the band’s MySpace pics)
In an effort to better understand and document this phenomenon, we’ve decided to create a short video. So to that…
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Wed, January 13, 2010, 5:47 PM
We hope that it comes as no (or even relatively little) surprise that we here at Sub Pop Records are great fans of a few things that are not actually on or directly related to Sub Pop Records. And one of these things that we are great fans of is the Suicide Squeeze record label. The label is both our neighbor and friend and is right now in the midst of an unbelievable Decade Crushing Sale. Read all about it…
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Tue, January 12, 2010, 8:52 AM
Norway, the excellent first single off the upcoming Beach House album Teen Dream, is this week’s I Tunes Free Single Of The Week! Just head on over to I Tunes and nab yourself a free download. You can also pre-order Teen Dream now and receive a very special scrap book from Beach House’s very own Victoria Legrand. So head on over to I Tunes, get Norway for free and then pre-order the album for even MORE freebies. Good stuff.
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Fri, January 8, 2010, 12:14 PM
We told you a little bit about Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba and Next Ambiance in this post last year, but I think it’s time for an update and a look ahead to what’s in store for 2010. I Speak Fula was released in Europe in the fall of last year to a pretty incredible response. Among others, Mojo , Uncut and fRoots all had I Speak Fula in their top albums of the year and Bassekou played on, in…
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Thu, January 7, 2010, 4:39 PM
Mome is a quarterly anthology published by our friends over at Fantagraphics Books and it showcases the best new talent of this decade’s rising cartoon generation, alongside work from some of North America and Europe’s most respected creators. The Winter 2010 issue (Vol. 17) just recently came out and it is, predictably, really great. Less predictably, this same new issue includes a bunch of new full-page black-and-white work from Rick Froberg. Rick also sings/plays in the band Obits whose debut…
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Mon, January 4, 2010, 12:06 PM
Happy 2010, friends! The new decade is starting off right with three new records on Sub Pop that are sure to be contenders for the next ‘best of the decade’ list. (Check back in 2019 to see why they call me Nostraswainus.) On January 26th we are releasing full-lengths by Beach House, AFCGT, and Retribution Gospel Choir. Beach House’s Teen Dream (LP/CD/MP3) comes packaged with a DVD featuring a video for every song on the record, each by a different…
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Mon, December 21, 2009, 5:23 PM
January 26th is not only my little brother’s birthday, it’s also the release date for Teen Dream, the Sub Pop debut from Beach House. I’ll have two reasons to celebrate, you’ll probably have just the one. But seeing as Teen Dream is already being heralded one of the best records of 2010 (like here and here, for instance), what a celebration it will be! Both the CD and LP versions of Teen Dream come packaged with a DVD featuring a…
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Mon, December 21, 2009, 3:35 PM
Hey there online customer! As of this moment (December 21st, 3:30 PST), we will be calling it a year and closing the virtual doors on the shop. Though your order won’t ship until the new year, please feel free to purchase as much as you possibly can until then.
Happy Holidays from the folks here at Sub Pop HQ. May your wildest dreams come true this holiday season.
XO
PS-Check back early next year for releases from Beach House, AFCGT, and Retribution…
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Mon, December 21, 2009, 12:27 PM
Welcome to For the Record #10. I would love to focus your attention on another oldie but goodie, Ugly Casanova’s Sharpen Your Teeth.
Band: Ugly Casanova
Record: Sharpen Your Teeth
When you told you about the first time: May 21, 2002
Ugly Casanova released only one record. The band consisted mainly of Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse with additional vocals by John Orth of Holopaw. The songs are unmistakably Isaac’s; they’re quirky, poppy, folky and still as interesting to me today as when i…
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Sat, December 19, 2009, 5:16 PM
Grist reporter, Eugene Mirman says goodbye to Copenhagen. His farewell video can be viewed here. Enjoy!
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Thu, December 17, 2009, 11:18 AM
Eugene Mirman is still busy reporting the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen for Grist. His new video is all about Dong. You can watch the video here.
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Tue, December 15, 2009, 3:27 PM
The Sub Pop Nerd Cave built a robot to select a random winner from all the comments on the TOP 10 of 09 list early yesterday afternoon. We set the robot to work and he selected young mister Christoper DiGiacomo of O’Fallon, MO. I’ve been emailing with our winner all day today and it turns out he is a swell guy who plays a billion instruments, is very inquisitive, and has a secret crush on Jesy from Tiny Vipers. Christopher…
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Mon, December 14, 2009, 11:43 AM
The Milwaukee band until only very recently known as Jail has added an “L” to their name (they are now and, we hope, forever to be called Jaill)! They have also added Sub Pop Records as their new label, and will be putting a new record on said label in 2010! If you’re not already acquainted, let us introduce you to Vinnie Kircher, Austin Dutmer, Andy Harris and Ryan Adams, aka Jaill. You can listen to them on their "MySpace…
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