Our own CSS has been nominated for a 2007 Shockwaves NME Award in the category of “Best International Band”! And, though it may seem like damning with faint praise to say that we enjoy them more than, say, The Killers, we are quite excited at the prospect that they might actually win. And so, we would like to take this opportunity to respectfully suggest that you VOTE FOR THEM!

“Sub Pop: The new thing; the God thing; a mighty multinational entertainment conglomerate based in the Pacific Northwest”

This quote is printed along the spine of the compilation pictured above, Sub Pop 100_. The other day Sub Pop’s long-departed founder Bruce Pavitt came by and, with the help of Green River’sriver Mark Arm and the tremendously amiable and funny Tad, chatted us all up on the label’s beginnings. He brought some records with him to pass around, and Sub Pop 100 was one of them. It was really fun; grunge was pretty bitchen’.