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NEWS : FRI, OCT 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Flock of Dimes’ The Life You Save Is Out Today

Today, Flock of Dimes’ The Life You Save, her gorgeous and intimate new album, is available worldwide from Sub Pop. The 12-track long player features the highlights “Long After Midnight,” “Afraid,” “Defeat,” and today’s new offering, the luminous official video for “Keep Me in the Dark,” directed by returning collaborator Spence Kelly.

Flock of Dimes’ Jenn Wasner offers this on the video: “To celebrate the official release of The Life You Save, I’m so happy to share what is perhaps my favorite song I’ve ever written. ‘Keep Me in the Dark’ is a love song–the type of love rooted not in control or selfishness, but grace and acceptance of each other’s mutual imperfections. To heal in a relationship is to learn to see yourself with greater clarity and compassion through the eyes of someone who sees all of your bullshit and loves you anyway.”

Across the last few decades – whether it be as Flock of Dimes, as half of beloved duo Wye Oak, or via one of her many collaborations with Bon Iver, Sylvan Esso, and a sprawling list of other musical juggernauts – Wasner’s extensive catalog displays her gift for balancing authenticity and directness with an unmistakable left-of-center sensibility. Her songwriting has always found her as a keen-eyed observer, a deeply empathetic and thoughtful storyteller with a skill for probing memory, heartbreak, and unhealed trauma, a shroud of syncopation or off-kilter guitar taking a song somewhere quietly prodigious.

Her last solo album, the critically lauded Head of Roses, took on heartbreak from a dualistic perspective, following a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing. Her new album, The Life You Save, takes that a step further; put simply, it’s the most honest, intimate, and personally revealing record of Wasner’s career. As heart-wrenching as they are hopeful, its twelve tracks delve the depths of addiction and codependency, inherited and experienced trauma, and the process of finding peace in the face of others’ suffering. The Life You Save is resonant, unflinchingly exposed – like a missive from the eye of a storm. But while it somehow manages to feel both viscerally raw and vulnerable, above it floats a sense of quiet peace, a sheen of hindsight, or perhaps of acceptance. It is the story of how it feels to be trapped between two worlds—the one you came from, and the one you’ve escaped to; about the belief that somehow, you can take the ones you love with you to this place; about the grief of realizing that the only person you can save is yourself.

The Life You Save was produced by Jenn Wasner and recorded at Betty’s in Chapel Hill, NC, and Montrose Recording in Los Angeles, CA. The Life You Save also features additional production from Nick Sanborn (tracks 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11), is engineered by Adrian Olsen & Alli Rogers, mixed by Adrian Olsen, and mastered by Huntley Miller.

The Life You Save is available to buy on CD/LP/stream on all DSPs from Sub Pop. LPs purchased from megamart.subpop.com in North America, MegaMart Europe in the UK + EU, Flock of Dimes’ live shows, and your local record store, will receive the limited Loser Edition on Citrus (NA) or Pearl (UK/EU) vinyl (all vinyl color editions whilst stock lasts!)

Ahead of Flock of Dime’s previously announced headline touring for November and December are two Los Angeles-area-based in-store performances: Tonight, October 10th at Fingerprints in Long Beach, and Saturday, October 11th at Healing Force of the Universe in Pasadena. Please find a full list of dates below.

US Tour Dates
Fri. Oct. 10 - Long Beach, CA - Fingerprints (Free! 7PM)
Sat, Oct 11 - Pasadena, CA - Healing Force of the Universe (Free! 2PM)
Thu. Nov. 06 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
Fri. Nov. 07 - New Haven, CT - Space Ballroom
Sat. Nov. 08 - Brooklyn, NY - National Sawdust
Sun. Nov. 09 - Somerville, MA - The Rockwell
Tue. Nov. 11 - Washington, DC - The Atlantis
Wed. Nov. 12 - Saxapahaw, NC - Haw River Ballroom
Mon. Dec. 01 - Seattle, WA - Barboza [Sold Out]
Tue. Dec. 02 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
Thu. Dec. 04 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
Fri. Dec. 05 - Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon

What People Are Saying About Flock of Dimes:
“Her thoughtful, intricately layered ballads on The Life You Save, grapple with codependency, addiction, responsibilities, and limits, with how much anyone can help someone they cherish.” New York Times

“Clear-eyed and unflinching… She articulates her feelings in lush folk ballads, whose effortless warmth belie the challenges facing Wasner.” 8/10, Uncut

“Another warm, twilit ballad.... In the video, directed by Spencer Kelly, Wasner is surrounded by projections of her younger self. It looks as pretty as the music sounds.” [“Afraid”] Stereogum

“Beautiful new song ‘Long After Midnight’ is sharply poetic, the dulcet acoustic guitar line reminiscent of Joni Mitchell’s jazz-adjacent chording. The tender, single-take visual stars Jenn and is directed by Spence Kelly – highly evocative, it feels like a courageous step forwards.” CLASH

“A beautiful acoustic meditation about offering help against your better judgement.” [“Long After Midnight”] The Guardian

“In true Wasner fashion, it’s honest, raw, and beautiful.” [“Long After Midnight”] The AV Club

Flock of Dimes
The Life You Save

Tracklisting:
1. Afraid
2. Keep Me in the Dark
3. Long After Midnight
4. Defeat
5. Close to Home
6. The Enemy
7. Not Yet Free
8. Pride
10. Theo
11. Instead of Calling
12. River in My Arms
13. I Think I’m God

NEWS : WED, OCT 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Weird Nightmare, the Power Pop Band From Alex Edkins of METZ, Shares Official Video for “Forever Elsewhere”

Weird Nightmare, the power pop-leaning project from METZ guitarist and singer Alex Edkins, has shared an official video for the new single “Forever Elsewhere,” available today on all digital service providers. Co-produced with Jim Eno of Spoon “Forever Elsewhere” is an upbeat and invigorating blast of rock guitar and irresistible hooks. It illustrates a clear departure from the lo-fi bedroom recordings of the Weird Nightmare debut LP and a big step forward into wide screen high-fidelity, shout-along anthems.

Edkins says about the song: “‘Forever Elsewhere’ is the most optimistic song I’ve written to date. I wanted to send an unequivocal positive message into the world. The line ‘Love, it will come,’ summarizes the overall theme: if things feel hopeless and the world is bleak, don’t give up, keep pushing. I like to think of it as a pep talk wrapped in fuzzy guitars.

I recorded with Seth Manchester (he engineered the last two METZ records) and Jim Eno (Spoon), and we tracked this one really quickly. Drummer Loel Campbell (Wintersleep) and Roddy Kuester (Julianna Riolino/Sadies) nailed it in 2 takes, and you can really hear the ramshackle energy in the song where the wheels almost fall off a couple of times. We tried to keep it loose.”

You can watch the charming and very fun new video here and now, shot on Super 8 film, and directed by long-time collaborator and friend, Colin Medley.

The band is confirmed to perform live on Oct. 10th at Nowadays Festival in Halifax and Oct. 11th at Sportsmans in Charlottetown, Canada with more North American touring to follow in 2026.

Fri. Oct. 10 - Halifax, NS - Nowadays Festival
Sat. Oct. 11 - Charlottetown, PEI - Sportsmans

Best known as the vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter of Toronto noise rock legends METZ, Edkins has allowed his pop sensibilities to flourish under the Weird Nightmare moniker, releasing a full-length album in 2022 and a series of ultra-catchy singles on Sub Pop Records. Imagine The Breeders covering Big Star, or the gloriously hissy miniature epics of classic-era Guided by Voices combined with the bombast of Copper Blue-era Sugar—just tons of red-line distortion cut with the type of tunecraft that thrills the moment it hits your ears.

What people have been saying about Weird Nightmare:

“Weird Nightmare is all about hooks and melody. Still delivered with levels in the red, but these are ultracatchy powerpop songs first and foremost, and really good ones at that.” - Brooklyn Vegan

“The debut Weird Nightmare album from METZ guitarist/vocalist Alex Edkins is a hook-filled set of blown-out power-pop with distorted guitars, punchy rhythms and bright pop melodies.” - KEXP

“‘Wrecked,’ Weird Nightmare’s third and latest single is a driving and ardent guitar pop anthem centered around big hooks, enormous power chords and sweetly, lived-in lyricism.” - [“Wrecked”] Joy of Violent Movement

“All chiming chords and smart harmonies, ‘Wrecked’ is a boisterous ode to ’90s indie-rock and everything that followed.” - [“Wrecked”] Guitar World

NEWS : THU, OCT 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM

WE’RE HIRING: THE SUB POP STORE AT SEA-TAC AIRPORT IS CURRENTLY SEEKING A TEMP PART-TIME SALES CLERK (October 2025)

Sub Pop is currently accepting resumes from energetic, responsible, detail-oriented, and dependable candidates for a Part-time sales clerk, weekends, seasonal (temp) for the holiday season at our terribly impressive store at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. This guy.

Responsibilities include:

• Greeting and assisting customers in a friendly manner.
• Full compliance with Sea-Tac operation rules and strict TSA regulations and restrictions.
• Efficient handling of cash and credit card transactions.
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively.
• Availability to work nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Assisting in organizing and restocking the store.
• Maintaining the general appearance of the store.
• Contributing to the team retail effort by accomplishing related tasks as needed.

Qualified candidates will have:

• Previous experience in the retail environment.
• Knowledge of the Sub Pop catalog, Pacific Northwest music, the Seattle music community, and the City of Seattle.
• A friendly and enthusiastic disposition with customers and staff.
• Strong and clear communication skills.
• A general understanding of retail Point of Sale systems.
• Flexibility in schedule and willingness to work early or late hours.

Store hours - 6am-9pm everyday

Salary: $21 per hour

Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible scheduling, paid time off, holiday pay, store discount, and more!

Please send your resume to airportstore@subpop.com.

NEWS : WED, OCT 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM

The Remastered Edition Of The Gits’ Enter: The Conquering Chicken Will Be Available On Vinyl and CD Worldwide From Sub Pop On December 5th, 2025

Friday, December 5th, 2025, Sub Pop will release a new physical version of The Gits’ Enter: The Conquering Chicken, the group’s second, and final studio album. The newly remastered album, which has been available digitally, is now available to preorder on CD and LP from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe, The Gits’ official website, and select independent retailers worldwide. LP orders of the vinyl will receive the limited Loser edition on Clear with Black + Red Hi Melt (North America) and Pearl / Sunrise (UK/EU) vinyl (All vinyl colors while supplies last!)

This new physical reissue of the ferocious Seattle punk band’s second album is remastered by legendary producer Jack Endino and features new album cover art and packaging by Sub Pop’s VP of Creative, Jeff Kleinsmith. Also included are expanded liner notes by journalist and former Atlantic Records A&R Tim Sommer who heralds, ‘The Gits were an angry, inflamed slinky fully in tune with and tuned by the Bessie Patti Smith of her time, truly the only singer who could summon Joplin, Poly Styrene, Sam Cooke, Iggy Pop, and Ian MacKaye all in the same goddamn song.’

Watch the official video for “Sign of the Crab” directed by Chris Kraft.

“‘Sign of the Crab’ was the last song we created together as a band” says Gits’ bassist Matt Dresdner. “Based on Andy’s diabolical composition and Mia’s brilliant creepy lyrics, the music was punchy, complex, and full of a fun, twisted rage. The songs on …Chicken provide just a glimpse of what we were onto.”

Enter: The Conquering Chicken is The Gits’ final, full-length studio album. The Gits’ vocalist, lyricist, and frontwoman, Mia Zapata, was murdered in Seattle during the few weeks they spent recording the album that summer of 1993. Produced by the band and longtime friend Scott Benson, Enter: The Conquering Chicken was released posthumously on C/Z Records in 1994.

Guitarist Andy Kessler shares, “The Gits are pleased to finally present listeners with the definitive edition of this recording to celebrate a taste of where Mia and their band might have gone.”

Formed in 1986 at Antioch College in Ohio, The Gits moved together to Seattle in 1989 as the world was taking notice of the local scene. Although their raucous, blues-infused punk, powered by Mia’s indelible vocals, didn’t quite fit the mold being cast by their Pacific Northwest peers, the band immediately found a tight foothold and strong following.

Enter: The Conquering Chicken showcases The Gits at the peak of their powers. Captured at the end of a packed west coast tour, they were on fire. Creative, inspired, and driven by the promise of a new musical chapter, you can it hear in these recordings.

Remixed by Jack Endino in 2003, ‘Songs like Bob (Cousin O.),’ ‘Guilt Within Your Head,’ ‘Seaweed,’ ‘Sign of the Crab,’ ‘The Drinking Song,’ and Mia’s jaw-dropping rendition of Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change is Gonna Come’ reveal a distinct evolution in direction following their successful 1992 debut album, Frenching The Bully.

Late last week, The Gits announced the rerelease of the 2005 independent documentary The Gits’ 20th Anniversary Edition directed by Kerri O’Kane. The film is distributed by Factory 25 and will stream online through Veeps starting on December 16th, with theatrical screenings to come in November, December, and January. The Gits’ 20th Anniversary Edition features footage of Mia and the band, along with Kathleen Hanna, Selene Vigil and Valerie Agnew of 7 Year Bitch, Joan Jett, and more (see Brooklyn Vegan news story September 25th).

The Gits’ Frenching the Bully is also available now from Sub Pop Mega Mart in North America, MegaMart2 in the EU/UK, The Gits website, and independent retailers worldwide. Enter: The Conquering Chicken and Frenching the Bully, along with the rest of the Gits’ entire discography, Kings & Queens, Seafish Louisville, and Live at The X-Ray – are also available digitally on all DSPs from Sub Pop.

Revisit Evelyn McDonnell’s interview with The Gits’ band members Andy Kessler and Matt Dresdner in The New York Times (see November 12th story “A New Set of Gits Releases Gives Mia Zapata Her Voice Back”). You can also read Tim Sommer’s extensive liner notes on The Gits reissues here.

The limited Loser US LP & CD editions of Enter: The Conquering Chicken

The Gits
Enter: The Conquering Chicken

1. Bob (Cousin O.)
2. Guilt Within Your Head
3. Seaweed
4. A Change is Gonna Come
5. Precious Blood
6. Beauty of the Rose
7. Drunks
8. Italian Song
9. Social Love I
10. Social Love II
11. Daily Bread
12. Drinking Song
13. Sign of the Crab

NEWS : TUE, SEP 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Ya Tseen Shares New Single “Twilight” Feat. Pink Siifu and Sidibe

On January 16, 2026, Ya Tseen (pronounced Yacht Seen) will return with their new album, Stand On My Shoulders, digitally available worldwide from Sub Pop. Led by multi-disciplinary artist Nicholas Galanin, Stand On My Shoulders is an incandescent exploration of existence, a celebration of love and connection to Land.

Following the release of “Taste On My Lips” feat. Portugal. The Man, Meshell Ndegeocello, & Sidibe, and “Perfect Combo feat. dreamcastmoe comes the release “Twilight” Feat. Pink Siifu and Sidibe.

Galanin says of the song, “‘Twilight,” the third single from my forthcoming album, Stand On My Shoulders, “holds the tenderness of a moment that will never return.” It’s a song of love and presence, where two souls move together in rare alignment. The music pulses with shifting light as chords open into evolving textures. My voice offers a quiet invitation, met by Sidibe’s graceful harmonies, and Pink Siifu’s verse bends the song into another dimension. We close with the lines: “The twilight never blossoms twice. The twilight in your eyes is all I see.” For me, it’s a reminder that beauty is fleeting and often unforgettable.”

Ya Tseen has confirmed a 7-date run supporting Portugal. The Man. These dates will begin on November 6th in Portland, OR, and end on November 19th in Denver, CO. See below for a complete list of shows.

Thu. Nov. 06 - Portland, OR- Revolution Hall #
Fri. Nov. 07 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall #
Sun. Nov. 09- Seattle, WA - Showbox (SoDo) #
Tue. Nov. 11 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater (OAK) #
Sat. Nov. 15 - Pomona, CA - Glass House, #
Sun. Nov. 16 - Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern #
Wed. Nov. 19 - Denver, CO - Mission Ballroom #

# w/ Portugal. the Man

Stand On My Shoulders is now available for pre-save on all participating DSPs. Click here to pre-save the entire album.

Galanin is a musician and visual artist who has been creating music, customary Tlingit carving, and interdisciplinary art for over two decades. His sculpture and video work have been shown at the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial, Whitney Biennial, Sydney Biennial, Desert X, Art Week Miami Beach, and by the New York Public Art Fund. Galanin’s visual and sonic work are interconnected streams of creative flow, integral to the watershed of work he creates.

More about Ya Tseen
Ya Tseen is a continually evolving musical collaboration guided by Nicholas Galanin/Yeil Ya Tseen. Born into the Sitka Tribe of Alaska (Tlingit) Galanin is L’uknax.ádi (Raven Coho clan). He began learning music from his father, Dei Kee Tla Tin (Dave Galanin, 1955-2021), an accomplished Blues guitarist who performed under the name Strummin’ Dog. In 2013 Galanin was in a serious boat accident while returning home from a hunting trip that broke his back and ribs. He recalls the stars overhead as he was airlifted from the boat, connecting him to his earliest memory of looking up at the night sky, and his connection to Land. Galanin has returned to this experience of intense connection to Land throughout his career, in many ways it guides his creative practice. Following the accident, his father gave him the name Yeil Ya Tseen, meaning Raven be alive, an affirmation of Galanin’s survival and an acknowledgment of his experience. After his father’s passing, Galanin renamed his musical project Ya Tseen (to be alive) as a connection to his lineage and responsibility to live and create as a part of Lingit cultural continuum.

Yeil Ya Tseen/Galanin has been creating music, customary Tlingit carving, and interdisciplinary art for over two decades. Galanin’s sculpture and video work have been shown at the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial, Whitney Biennial, Sydney Biennial, Desert X, Art Week Miami Beach, and by the New York Public Art Fund. Galanin is a member of the artist collective Black Constellation. In 2018 Galanin raised his first Kooteeya (totem pole) as lead carver in Juneau Alaska, followed by a second in 2023. Galanin’s visual and sonic work are interconnected streams of creative flow, each integral to the watershed of work he produces and contributes to.
Ya Tseen (previously Indian Agent, Silver Jackson) has performed across North America, Europe, and Australia, most recently with Portugal the Man and Samantha Crain to fund the rebuilding of a Tlingit clan house in Sitka. As Ya Tseen, the band has expanded into a musical project, a fluid collective woven from numerous voices and sonic signatures.

Ya Tseen’s first album with Sub Pop Indian Yard included collaborations with Shabazz Palaces, Stas THEE Boss, Nick Hakim and continued his long term collaborations with O.C.Notes, Zak D. Wass, Tunia, Jesse Hughey, supported by Derek Haukaas (drums), Nikko Van Wycke (Bass), Jase Ihler (drums).

With their second release on Sub Pop Ya Tseen expands their collaborative approach, featuring Portugal The Man, Meshell Ndegeocello, dreamcastmoe, Anel Figueroa, Jahon Mikal, Pink Sifu, Sidibe, Hanna Ben, and Ashley Young.

Ya Tseen’s newest album, Stand On My Shoulders, builds on connection and revolutionary love as the foundation for collective liberation that ran throughout Indian Yard. The album cover art is a monoprint created by Galanin, based on a photograph of his father in Tlingit regalia. The regalia remains, but the wearer isn’t visible, leaving space to be filled by future generations. With Stand On My Shoulders, Ya Tseen uplifts the gifts given to us by our ancestors and the collective responsibilities we have to future generations. The album is an incandescent exploration of existence and a celebration of the persistence of love and connection to Land.