Today, Ya Tseen (pronounced Yacht Seen) has shared a new single, entitled “Ixwsiteen (I See You)”, a standout new track off the band’s forthcoming release, Stand On My Shoulders, out Friday, January 16th, 2026 worldwide from Sub Pop Records. 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.
“Ixwsiteen (I See You)” was written for Aaron Bushnell, shares Galanin. “A reflection on witnessing, complicity, and the cost of conscience in an empire that erases what it fears. The song holds space for his act of protest, a flame against indifference, awareness is ceremony; once opened, it resists forgetting.”
Ya Tseen will embark on a 10-date tour 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 # Sat. Nov. 08 - Tacoma, WA - The Spanish Ballroom # Sun. Nov. 09- Seattle, WA - Showbox (SoDo) # Tue. Nov. 11 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater (OAK) # Fri. Nov. 14 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour # Sat. Nov. 15 - Pomona, CA - Glass House, # Sun. Nov. 16 - Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern # Tue. Nov. 18 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theater # 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 his work.
Ya Tseen Stand On My Shoulders
1. Ircenrraat (feat. Ashley Young)
2. Twilight (feat. Pink Siifu, Sidibe)
3. Perfect Combo (feat. dreamcastmoe)
4. Taste On My Lips (feat. Portugal. The Man, Meshell Ndegeocello, Sidibe)
On Friday, March 27th, 2026, Sub Pop will digitally release Rogue Wave’s Out of the Shadow(Deluxe Edition) and Descended Like Vultures(20th Anniversary Director’s Cut) on all streaming services. Digital formats for each release include rare and unreleased bonus material from each album’s era.
Rogue Wave began almost by accident. In early 2002, faced with the sort of existential crisis unique to the newly unemployed, Zach Rogue decided to take some time off from his home base of San Francisco. He set off with a one-way ticket to New York in March with the intention of recording one or two songs with a friend, in an effort to exorcise his demons both artistically and personally. He came away with both a new lease on life and an album’s worth of material that would later become Rogue Wave’s stunning debut, Out of the Shadow. At the end of 2002, while preparing the album for self-release, Zach rounded out the band’s lineup with the addition of Pat Spurgeon (drums/keys/samples/vocals), Sonya Westcott (bass/vocals), and Gram LeBron (guitar/keys/vocals). Zach soon realized that together the group started to “light up like fireworks” and “liked hugging each other.” Effortless friendship spawned the refreshingly organic actualization of Rogue Wave, a band whose commitment to song-craft and to each other is nothing short of astounding.
Out of the Shadow was originally released in a limited quantity on the band’s own Responsive Recordings label in early 2003. It is a gentle, undeniable charmer full of the naturally timeless sophistication and fierce, penetrating hooks that define a classic album. Rogue Wave’s climactic payoffs aren’t what this band is solely about, though. Live, Zach Rogue’s aberrant pop is realized here together with Pat, Sonya, and Gram with exacting precision and infectious enthusiasm that is as subtle and fluid as it is insistent. As a unit, the band’s preternatural ability to effortlessly highlight the finer points—spectral layers of delicately placed pedal steel, understated moog and upright bass—makes their moving arrangements all the more enchanting.
Soon after their formation, Rogue Wave found themselves invited to play shows with bands like Spoon, Destroyer, Mates of State, Super Furry Animals, The Clientele and The Shins. “Rogue Wave seems like a classic Bay Area band, in the tradition of Thinking Fellers and Barbara Manning—they’ve just got that vibe,” gushed Carl Newman, The New Pornographers’ vocalist and songwriter. And he’s right—the quartet effused vitality, all the while infusing their damaged melodies with casual charm.
Released in 2005, Descended Like Vultures is Rogue Wave’s second album for Sub Pop. It would be the first time the band’s leader made a record with a whole group – Rogue, Spurgeon, Le Bron, and new bass player Evan Farrell – in the studio. They spent 10 days with Bill Racine (who also produced Out Of The Shadow with Rogue) at Supernatural Sound in Oregon City, OR, resulting in the creation of 11 tracks that journey through a dreamy landscape inspired by several decades of classic rock and pop (from Fleetwood Mac to Neil Young to My Bloody Valentine.)
For the first time as an entire unit, Rogue Wave went out of its way to create a free-flowing album that includes equal amounts of tension, release and resolution. In the process, they made a brilliantly layered, expertly crafted album that changes shape with repeated spins.
Zach Rogue offers this on Out of the Shadow: “There’s an innocence and openness to this album, probably because I had literally no idea what I was doing. I made sketches of the songs on 4-track, and by and large, the structure of the songs didn’t change too much in the studio.
“Largely recorded under the cover of very late night at Bearsville because I didn’t have the money to officially record in a studio, I thought Bill and I were making better-sounding demos. But the more we tracked, the more it seemed like it could be a real album. While it felt like the most exciting thing that ever happened to me, I didn’t exactly think it would be heard by anyone except maybe my friends and family. When it was done, I used it as a way to recruit a band on Craigslist. I wish I could remember what I wrote in that posting.
“These 4-track demos are some other song ideas I was kicking around at the time. I’m really fond of the live version of that Neil Young song (“Wrecking Ball”) we did with the Helio Sequence. We got along so well with those guys and I loved it when Pat and Benjamin shared the drum kit. Controlled chaos.”
As for Descended Like Vultures, Zach Rogue had this to say, “This is the sound of a road weary but energized band. Once Rogue Wave started touring on Out of the Shadow, we seemingly never stopped. And when we weren’t touring, we were knocking out new song ideas at our rehearsal space in Oakland. Descended was recorded in two parts: Pat and I tracked a handful of songs with Bill (Racine) at Tarbox, where he was House Engineer. We were obsessed with the Flaming Lips and hoped we could through osmosis absorb some of that Dave Fridmann magic. All we wanted to do was experiment in the studio. Some nights I slept in the live room under the piano. The rest we did as a full band at Supernatural, just south of Portland, OR. When we first submitted the LP to Sub Pop, they said we needed to trim it down. This 20th Anniversary version is as we originally intended it, with weird autoharp pieces I wrote in the studio and some of the other songs we wanted in there.
“When I wrote and tracked “Eyes” at my house in Oakland, I demoed some other songs as well, which is where the demos for “Dropout” and “Desperate” come from. “When We Begin” is a song we were asked to submit for the Olympics, but the committee, in their wise judgement, rejected. We were asked to record a cover of the Pixies’ “Debaser” for the TV show The OC. After we finished that more rocking version, we stayed in the studio and tried playing it a different way live. It took us about a hundred takes to play it without messing it up, but we finally got it.”
Earlier this year, Rogue Wave’s “Eyes,” which is included here with the bonus material for Descended Like Vultures, was certified as a Gold-selling single by the RIAA.
What People Have Said About Rogue Wave’s Out of the Shadow & Descended Like Vultures: “Think Doug Martsch fronting the Shins and playing the sweetest Carl Newman jams ever.” [Out Of The Shadow] 5/5,Alternative Press
“Out of the Shadow’s blissful indie-pop tunes are as affecting as they are catchy.” Dusted
“Their Sub Pop debut overflows with breezy, Pacific Northwest harmonies, lush vocals and strummed guitar work that beats a path similar to The Shins’ Oh, Inverted World and Elliott Smith’s XO.” [Out of the Shadow] Pitchfork
“The bicoastal milieu of Out of the Shadow is apparent: It reflects both a lush, sunny “California Dreamin’” temperament, and Gotham’s grimy, melancholic disposition.’ 7.8/10, Pitchfork
“Not a weak link or bit of filler to be found anywhere, either. Out of the Shadow is an indie dream come true.” 4.5/5,All Music
“Deceptively inventive, darkly melodic Simon & Garfunkel and (Elliott) Smithisms.” [Out of the Shadow] NME
“Tightly packed with ‘Eight Days A Week’-style harmonies and immaculate, 12-string strumming” [Out of the Shadow] MOJO
“Rogue’s high, gentle vocals and halcyon harmonies mask lyrics that are occasionally dark and cynical–but never mushy.” [Descended Like Vultures] A-,Entertainment Weekly
“One of the year’s best.” [Descended Like Vultures] Billboard
“A perfect mix of tender melodies and rock and roll.” [Descended Like Vultures] 8/10, Under the Radar
“a more visceral, immediate effort.” [Descended Like Vultures] 7.8/10, Pitchfork
“…a musical ambition that flirts with the experimental, but remains joyously within reach of the FM dial.” [Descended Like Vultures] 8/10, Uncut
Digital Tracklisting: 1. Every Moment 2. Nourishment Nation 3. Be Kind + Remind 4. Seasick On Land 5. Kicking The Heart Out 6. Postage Stamp World 7. Sewn Up 8. Falcon Settles Me 9. Endgame 10. Endless Shovel 11. Man-Revolutionary! 12. Perfect 13. Everyday 14. Every Moment (4-track Demo) 15. Kicking the Heart Out (4-track Demo) 16. Angela (4-track Demo) 17. Do I Really Wanna Die For You? (4-track Demo) 18. Wrecking Ball (feat. The Helio Sequence; Live at Bowery Ballroom 06/15/2005)
Digital Tracklisting: 1. Vulture’s Reprise 2. Bird on a Wire 3. Catform 4. Loves Lost Guarantee 5. Salesman at the Day of the Parade 6. My Will 7. Publish My Love 8. Are You on My Side 9. Vulture’s Return 10. You 11. Interruptions 12. Medicine Ball 13. 10:1 14. California 15. Vulture’s Reprieve 16. Eyes 17. Desperate (Demo) 18. Dropout (Demo) 19. When We Begin (Demo) 20. Debaser (Live at Russian Recording 2006)
Sub Pop has signed underground music powerhouse sunn O))) for the known universe.
sunn O))) and Sub Pop kick off this exciting partnership with three towering monoliths of low-end drone, delivered just in time for the dark weight of winter, in the form of Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential, out now on maxi 12” and digital. The maxi 12” is available in two limited vinyl variants: gold vinyl via Sub Pop online (US and UK/EU), and clear vinyl via sunn O))) online and on their current European tour. It is also available to stream at all DSPs. A widely available vinyl pressing will be released later in 2025. Limited-edition merch is also available from sunn O))) and Sub Pop.
sunn O))) describe the release thusly:
“Eternity’s Pillarsb/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential is sunn O)))’s premier work on the maxi 12” medium for Sub Pop.
“It consists of three brand new tracks created and performed by the iconic duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson and co-produced by sunn O))) and Brad Wood. Brad Wood recorded the material at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville and Sea Grass in Los Angeles in 2025. The tracks on this maxi 12” are the first official sunn O))) studio recordings to feature only the original core duo on heavily saturated electric guitars and synthesis.
“sunn O))) gave extreme focus and care to each step and aspect of the recording, each tone and level of saturation, each gain stage and speaker, each arrangement and harmonic. The Pacific Northwest forest is our guide.
“‘Eternity’s Pillars’ is named for the mid-1980s television program created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, focusing on her incessant belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence. ‘Raise the Chalice’ is named for a rallying cry often uttered by Northwest legend Ron Guardipee throughout the mid-1990s. ‘Reverential’ equally pays respect and sends loud praise to those who came before us with the heaviest burdens, expressions with music and art being the materials of an antiphon.
“The front cover of the maxi 12” depicts the duo in the woods northeast of Seattle, through the lens of Charles Peterson.”
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
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.
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
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!
