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6 unusual facts about Sub Pop


Avi Buffalo

In June 2011 a second single was released on Sub Pop, "How Come? and Good I'm Wishing", and the project is working on a second album.

Bad Afro

The concept was inspired by the American label Sub Pop which had started their singles club nearly a decade earlier with great success.

Douglas Kahn

The first version was published on a Sub Pop audiocassette and the second version was published on a flexi-disc in RAW magazine.

Jennifer Gentle

In February 2004, Jennifer Gentle became the first Italian band to be signed to Sub Pop records.

The Gutter Twins

In July 2007, the music website Pitchfork Media announced that the duo, "two of the alt-rock era's greatest frontmen," had signed to Seattle label Sub Pop.

The Yo-Yos

The Yo-Yo's continued to tour the UK and were then signed by US label Sub Pop.


Motorvision

The video features candid footage of the band and people associated with it, including Sub Pop co-founders Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman.

Rockdelux

In April 1999, Rockdelux began to issue complimentary CDs as a free gift with the magazine, each one generally acting as a sampler for a particular record label, such as Warp Records, Fierce Panda Records and Sub Pop records.

Shayde Sartin

He has also performed live and on recordings with multiple bands including Giant Skyflower Band, Citay, The Skygreen Leopards (Jagjaguwar and Soft Abuse Records), Wooden Wand and the Sky High Band (Kill Rock Stars) Flying Canyon (Soft Abuse Records) and with Kelley Stoltz (Sub Pop Records).

Start at the Top

Included are Skin Yard's Sub Pop single, their "Stranger" single (on Toxic Shock Records), "Machine Gun Etiquette" from The Damned covers comp.

The Doink Years

The Grifters, on the verge of releasing their first major label album on Sub Pop 1996, Shangri-La Records re-issued the first two self-released Grifters 7" singles as a 10", with a single per side and featuring a bonus track recorded in the same era.

The Spinanes

Originally founded by and consisting only of singer-songwriter/guitarist Rebecca Gates and drummer Scott Plouf, the band released three albums on the Sub Pop label before Gates retired the name in 1999 and began releasing music as a solo artist; Plouf began playing with Built to Spill in 1996, and left The Spinanes shortly thereafter to become their permanent drummer.

Up in It

Up in It is the second album by the band The Afghan Whigs and their first released after the band signed to Sub Pop.


see also

Bruce Pavitt

1986 saw the release of Sub Pop's (the "-terranean" was dropped earlier from the name) first LP: the Sub Pop 100.