Chad VanGaalen is a wildly talented artist, illustrator and animator from Calgary. And on May 17th, we at Sub Pop Records have the very great privilege of releasing Chad’s new full-length record, Diaper Island, on CD (round, small-ish), LP (also round, bigger) and digitally (invisible). With this new album, Chad has distilled his approach, producing his most sonically cohesive album to date, and the closest thing he has done to a rock album. As with all of his albums, Chad…

Oh happy day, we are excited to confirm that Male Bonding’s second full length release, Endless Now, will be released on Sub Pop Records August 30th, 2011. We are offering a track off the upcoming release "Bones via the widget above, check it out!

Endless Now was recorded at Dreamland Recording Studio in Woodstock, NY, the converted 19th century church that birthed such classics as the B-52’s “Love Shack” and Dinosaur Jr.’s 1993 full-length Where You Been. Male Bonding took…

Male Bonding’s new album Endless Now comes out on Monday, August 29th here in these Untied States and in the UK and Europe on September 5th. A few weeks back the band played the entirety of Endless Now in London at the Buffalo Bar’s 10th anniversary party (why not read about it on Male Bonding’s often very entertaining blog?). And because we could not all be there to see this performance and also because we are deeply interested in convincing…

Day 3 of 5 in the COUNTDOWN TO ENDLESS NOW brings us to the “Before It’s Gone” video. Enjoy!

The Male Bonding COUNTDOWN TO ENDLESS NOW:

Thursday, August 25th: “Tame the Sun”
Friday, August 26th: “Bones”
Saturday, August 27th (aka today!): “Before It’s Gone”
Sunday, August 28th: “What’s That Scene?”
Monday, August 29th (aka release day!): “Can’t Dream”

Our Countdown has reached the final day! Male Bonding’s Endless Now record release day has arrived.

Please enjoy our final video installment from our “Countdown to Endless Now” run, this one for “Can’t Dream”.

The end of the year is time for deep reflection, and an opportunity to give thanks and lend an ear to the people in your life. It may come as a surprise to you, but it takes more than the actual staff of Sub Pop Records to run the beast that is Sub Pop Records. We rely on tons of different people including European promo folks, editors, filmmakers, music supervisors, fellow labels, artists, and delivery people to keep the label…

After enjoying this excellent playlist, we invite you to look to our artist pages for more information (and incidentally, products available for purchase) for all these fine musicians.

2012, here we come.

With Love,
Sub Pop