Sub Pop Records (with headquarters in Seattle, WA) is currently searching for an organized, self-motivated, experienced individual to become our full-time Streaming and Digital Promotions (“SDP”) Manager. The SDP Manager position will be based in LA, working both remotely and from our LA office. This position will head up our interactions and presentations with the LA offices of Spotify, Apple, YouTube, and others.
We are accepting resumes through the position closing date of May 27, 2025.
The SDP Manager oversees pitching and strategy of all Sub Pop and Hardly Art releases at DSPs/digital music accounts, and works with Sub Pop’s Audience Development team to support music and video offerings at social accounts that have revenue-generating programs. They also work with the Digital Operations team to coordinate digital assets and set-up for all releases, and to gather assets that may be required for on-platform advertising or marketing. They also handle the hybrid sales/marketing/social YouTube account, managing Sub Pop’s YouTube presence, strategy, and analysis.
DSPs
Coordinate with VP of Sales on strategy for DSP conversations for all Sub Pop and Hardly Art releases. For key releases, send long lead music and email with key marketing points to initiate account marketing plan. Coordinate pitching strategy on weekly calls: servicing specific editors, identifying playlist targets, marketing drivers and evaluating analytics.
Manage digital pitching assets, including Apple, Spotify, and Amazon pitch tool, Youtube pitch tool, etc.
Send weekly update emails to Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Youtube, Tik Tok, Vevo, and Sonos with upcoming Sub Pop and Hardly Art track releases for the following 2 weeks. Follow-up on Thursdays with press, radio, marketing drivers, etc.
Send advance album links to DSP contacts for upcoming releases.
Participate in standing meetings with DSP reps (Spotify, Apple, Youtube, TikTok, Vevo)
Coordinate with the artist teams to maintain artist profiles on DSPs making sure all collateral (photos, bio, playlist, links, etc.) are current. Work with artists/managers for DSP and YouTube backend/admin access.
Coordinate with other US and ex-US Sub Pop team members in pitching to secondary and ex-US accounts.
Upload Spotify Canvas, Clips and Countdown.
Where possible, develop in-person relationships with label relations and programming teams at key DSPs including meeting at shows, industry events, etc.
Coach artists on DSP best practices and distribute DSP onboarding email to educate managers/artists.
Send US placement email updates to marketing staff, artist/manager teams for social sharing and maintain same info in weekly marketing notes.
YouTube
Determine YouTube strategy for all Sub Pop and Hardly Art releases including channel for video hosting, video publication strategy, etc.
Strategize to build subscription base for Sub Pop channel. Audit top 150 videos (standardize descriptions, update links if new music is out, add cards). Strategize to create community on Sub Pop YouTube channel
Update video description, video tags, video title, upload subtitle files, upload thumbnails, etc.
Set up YouTube video premieres manually, set up timed publishing of all other videos
Maintain relationships with YouTube reps to pitch artists for YouTube Marketing opportunities.
Coach artists on use of YouTube community pages, YouTube Shorts and profile management.
Submit artist channels for Official Artist Channel verification.
Social Music Accounts
Develop contacts with label relations teams at TikTok, Meta, Snap, and more as they come online.
Develop familiarity with features: TikTok banner, TikTok live, TikTok shop, Snap lens, Meta lens, Playlisting etc. Learn the landscape of these accounts, spending time on the services as a user, digging into analytics, monitoring what other artists are doing and pitching for opportunities.
Supervisor(s):
DSPs/YouTube: VP of Sales
Social Music Accounts: joint supervision by VP of Sales and Director of Audience Development
Salary Range:
$60,000-$75,000/yr
Description of Benefits:
PTO (Paid time off including sick time) beginning at 15 days per year, 14 paid holiday days, 401k plan with partial employer match, medical/dental/vision insurance paid for employees and partially paid for their family, transportation benefits, discounted merchandise.
Sub Pop Records is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran or disability status. Sub Pop Records will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to jobapplicants@subpop.com no later than May 27, 2025. Thanks, and good luck!
Today, Alan Sparhawk shares the official video for the new single “Not Broken” from With Trampled by Turtles, the sophomore solo effort from Alan Sparhawk of Low.
“Not Broken” is a gorgeous track that features guest vocals from Sparhawk’s daughter, Hollis. You can now watch the official video directed by Alexa Viscius. Click here to watch.
In their review of With Trampled By Turtles, Mojo Magazine says of the song, “Not Broken is a chamber-folk song led by Eamonn McLain’s cello, the banjo and mandolin joining in with harp-like discretion. and Sparhawk’s voice intertwined with a female foil as it did on so many Low tracks. The singer is Sparhawk and Parker’s daughter, Hollis and her voice is both uncannily familiar and magically new: one more poignant epiphany; one more consolation, on an album freighted with them.”
“Not Broken” follows the release of the album’s debut offering “Stranger” which Stereogum notes “filters the band’s bluegrass roots through Sparhawk’s knack for atmospheric, post-rock-inspired arrangements, like if Things We Lost In The Fire took a shot or two of Jack Daniel’s.”
These singles also follow the release Sparhawk’s 2024 solo debut, White Roses, My God, which received praise from outlets such as such as The Guardian, Stereogum, Pitchfork, Clash, MOJO, Uncut, The Line of Best Fit, Under The Radar, Brooklyn Vegan, and The New York Times.
Sparhawk just finished a North American tour and will continue touring in support of his recent releases through the remainder of 2025. Please find a current list of dates below.
2025 Tour Dates Wed. May 28 - Liverpool, UK - Arts Club Thu. May 29 - London, UK - EartH Fri. May 30 - Portsmouth, UK - Wedgewood Rooms Sat. May 31 - Utrecht, Netherlands - TivoliVredenBurg (Cloud Nine) Mon. Jun. 02 - Turin, IT- Spazio211 Tue. Jun. 03 - Rome, IT - Largo Venue Wed. Jun. 04 - Bologna, IT - Express Festival (Locomotiv Club) Thu. Jun. 05 - Milan, IT- Unaltrofestival - Magnolia Sat. Jun. 07 - Barcelona, ES - Primavera Festival Mon. Jun. 09 - Madrid, ES - Sala El Sol Wed. Jun. 12 - Porto, PT - Primavera Festival Sat. Aug. 02 - Tasov, CZ - Beseda Festival Sun. Aug. 03 - Katowice, PL - OFF Festival Tue. Aug. 05 - Copenhagen, DK - Lille Vega Wed. Aug. 06 - Oslo, Norway - John Dee Sat. Aug. 09 - Sicily, IT - Ypsigrock Festival Mon. Aug. 11- Cambridge, UK - Junction 2 Tue. Aug. 12 - Newcastle, UK - The Cluny Wed. Aug. 13 - Nottingham, UK - Rescue Rooms Thu. Aug. 14 - Norwich, UK - Norwich Arts Centre Fri. Aug. 15, 2025 - Glanusk Park, UK - GreenMan Festival Sat. Sept. 06 - Grand Rapids, MI - River Fest
With Trampled by Turtles is now available to preorder from Sub Pop. LP pre-orders from the Sub Pop Mega Mart (North America), Mega Mart 2 (UK/EU), and independent retailers worldwide will receive the limited Loser Edition on Sunflare Vinyl (US) and Cream White (UK/EU) while stock lasts!
Today, May 8th, waterbaby has returned with “Amiss,” her lush new single and official video for 2025. The track was written by waterbaby, Marcus White, and Anton Fernandez, produced by White and Fernandez, and mixed by White. It is available today worldwide on all streaming services from Sub Pop.
“Amiss” is the Stockholm-based singer’s first new material since the release of Foam, waterbaby’s 2023 Sub Pop debut EP. That release, led by the hypnotic and evocative technopastoral songs “Airforce blue,” “911,” and “Wishing Well,” led to international acclaim, including the cover of Sweden’s music magazine GAFFA, and coverage from the likes of Bandcamp Daily, CLASH, The FACE, The FADER, The Guardian, The Line of Best Fit, The New York Times, NPR Music, PASTE, Stereogum, and more. Foam also earned waterbaby two 2024 Swedish Grammy Nominations, including “Newcomer of the Year” and “Composer of the Year” (for collaborator White).
What people have said about waterbaby: “waterbaby makes music that is funny, heartfelt and intimate, cramming earworm hooks into warped bedroom pop production.” The Guardian
With themes about love and loneliness, Egerbladh’s songs both break you and build you back up.” “Essential Releases” - Bandcamp Daily
“Under the gaze of auto-tuned vocals and alt-rock textures, waterbaby has forged something wholly original and swing.” [“911”] PASTE
“I was a big fan of ‘Airforce blue,’ the indie-pop-ish, R&B-ish Stockholm singer waterbaby’s first single for Sub Pop. I’m an even bigger fan of the next one. “911,” out today, heralds the impending arrival of waterbaby’s Foam EP. It’s a low-key love song built around a cozy little acoustic guitar figure that plays as a nest for waterbaby’s soft, digitally affected vocals.” STEREOGUM
“The emergency number in Stockholm, the home of the songwriter who calls herself waterbaby, is 112. But in this drowsily understated bedroom-pop song, she clearly has an eye on an American audience: “Call me when you need someone/I could be your 911,” she sings, adding “we-ooh, we-ooh” like a two-note emergency siren. It’s a tentative, guarded offer of affection — “Maybe we could go somewhere/Maybe we could be something” — sung breathily and hesitantly, trying to keep expectations modest.” [“911”] “The Playlist,” THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Airforce blue” flips waterbaby’s indie R&B into an electrified, auto-tuned collage with an easy intimacy.” BROOKLYN VEGAN
“An unguarded DIY R&B moment coming out of the Swedish capital.” [“Airforce blue”] THE FADER
“…a real jewel, a thrilling and evocative slice of future-facing pop.” [“Airforce blue”] “Track of the Day,” CLASH
“A black girl freeing herself through experimentation is inherently groundbreaking, and waterbaby is making comfortable room for herself in the lo-fi realm. Delivering wistful vocals and melancholic indie-pop on her latest EP Foam, we’re getting to know the singer through open veins and a raw lens.” Ones to Watch
Today, May 7th, Frankie Cosmos have shared an official video for their emotive new single “Bitch Heart.” Director, Eliza Lu Doyle shares about the song/video: “To me the song is about being torn between the comforts of domesticated life and your innate wildness. There’s a yearning for a more feral time––before you touched your fucking phone all day. So we made Greta into a dog-shepherd, someone who straddles those two realms. Meanwhile the band performs a line dance that’s somehow constrained and exuberant at once. Everything is shot in the dark using infrared and thermal cameras, hovering in the not-quite-real.”
Frankie Cosmos has announced a World Tour in support of the groups forthcoming long player Different Talking available World-Wide on CD/LP/DSP on June 27th via Sub Pop. The North American dates will begin on Sep. 03 and go through Oct. 25. Fantasy Of A Broken Heart and Moontype are supporting the first leg, Sep.03 -Sep. 20th, and Chris Cohen & Emily Yacina will support the second leg Oct. 09-Oct. 25th. The band will then return to the UK/EU for 7 shows with Babehoven on main support. See below for a full list of shows.
North America: Sat. Jul. 26 - Teulon, MB - Real Love Summer Fest Wed. Sep. 3 - Kingston, NY - Tubby’s # Thu. Sep. 4 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts # Fri. Sep. 5 - Washington, DC - Black Cat # Sat. Sep. 6 - Asheville, NC - Eulogy # Mon. Sep. 8 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl # Tue. Sep. 9 - Nashville, TN - Blue Room # Thu. Sep. 11 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon # Fri. Sep. 12 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity # Sat. Sep. 13 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall # Sun. Sep. 14 - Detroit, MI - El Club # Mon. Sep. 15 - Toronto, Canada - Great Hall # Tue. Sep. 16 - Montreal, Canada - Bar le Ritz # Thu. Sep. 18 - Portland, ME - Space Gallery # Fri. Sep. 19 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall # Sat. Sep. 20 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg # Thu. Oct. 9 - Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room @ Fri. Oct. 10 - San Diego, CA - Quartyard @ Sat. Oct. 11 - Pioneertown, CA - Pappy & Harriets Pioneertown @ Mon. Oct. 13 - Salt Lake City, UT - Soundwell @ Tue. Oct 14 - Boise, ID - Shrine Social Club @ Fri. Oct. 17 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile @ Sat. Oct. 18 - Tacoma, WA - The Spanish Ballroom @ Sun. Oct. 19 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom @ Tue. Oct. 21 - Sacramento, CA - Harlow’s @ Wed. Oct. 22 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall @ Thu. Oct. 23 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst Club Atrium @ Fri. Oct. 24 - Ojai, CA - Deer Lodge @ Sat. Oct. 25 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom @
UK/EU Sat. Nov. 15 - Dublin, IE - Button Factory $ Mon. Nov. 17 - Manchester, UK - YES (Pink Room) $ Tue. Nov. 18 - London, UK - Electric Brixton $ Fri. Nov. 21 - Paris, FR - Maroquinerie $ Sat. Nov. 22 - Amsterdam, NL - Bitterzoet Sun. Nov. 23 - Brussels, BE - Botanique $ Tue. Nov. 25 - Berlin, DE - Lido $ # Fantasy Of A Broken Heart & Moontype @ w/ Chris Cohen & Emily Yacina $ w/ Babehoven
Different Talking, the sixth and, so far, best album by NYC indie-rock four-piece Frankie Cosmos, exists across time and space, as we all do. It’s a collection of fragments and memories, remembered places, and reinterpreted feelings that adds up to a lucent, humming whole: a sturdy, worldly indie-rock record about aging and the passage of time that nonetheless manages to feel sharply current.
The current configuration of Frankie Cosmos features Greta Kline, Alex Bailey, Katie Von Schleicher, and Hugo Stanley. Kline is the only constant, but Stanley, Bailey, and Von Schleicher are crucial collaborators, and to use the names “Greta Kline” and “Frankie Cosmos” interchangeably would be incorrect. Kline remains the primary songwriter, and the music on Different Talking is arranged by the band as a whole, but this is the first album to be self-tracked by the unit with no external studio producers.
Different Talking is now available to pre-order on vinyl/CD/digital formats from Sub Pop. A Loser Edition LP on Opaque Red is available through the Sub Pop Mega Mart (North America) and White Vinyl via the Mega Mart 2 (UK/EU), and your local record store
Frankie Cosmos Different Talking
Tracklisting: 1. Pressed Flower 2. One of Each 3. Against the Grain 4. Bitch Heart 5. Porcelain 6. One! Grey! Hair! 7. Vanity 8. Not Long 9. Margareta 10. Your Take On 11. High Five Handshake 12. You Become 13. Joyride 14. Tomorrow 15. Wonderland 16. Life Back 17. Pothole
Today, Tuesday, May 6th, Guerilla Toss has released their latest earworm, “Psychosis Is Just a Number,” available worldwide on all digital service providers (DSPs) from Sub Pop. This stand-alone single was produced by Stephen Malkmus and mixed by Jorge Elbrect. It’s a glittering no wave skronk anthem about staying present in the chaos - imagine post-punk Pylon meeting the cheerleaders from the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video, but they’re obsessed with The Contortions.
This track is the first new material since the release of their 2022 Sub Pop debut, Famously Alive, which Our Culture described as “…their most urgent, vibrant, and deliriously infectious effort to date… Guerilla Toss make being alive sound like a heavenly deal.” The band is currently working on their forthcoming long-player, which is expected to be released later this year.
Guerilla Toss have announced headline shows in NY this Fall - more dates to be announced soon.
Fri. Sep. 12 - Bethel, NY - Bethel Woods (Buildfest) Sat. Sep. 13 - Kingston, NY - Tubby’s Fri. Oct. 16 - Brooklyn, NY - BK Bowl
