The Ruby Suns have teleported to today from a past where pop was catchy and high-spirited, but they are integrating quite well with us here in 2010. They’ve created a type of hybridized style of ’80s dance and world music that is incredibly intricate in its design. In fact, think The Smiths without any instruments [...]

Fight Softly is the second album for Sub Pop by New Zealand’s pop masters The Ruby Suns. Ryan McPhun has the kind of voracious musical mind that cites as equal influences ‘80s New Jack Swing and modern Angolan kuduro, Fleetwood Mac and Britney Spears, Brazilian tropicalia and Argentinean cumbia. He’s the kind of diligent, meticulous soul that spends [...]

Has it really been almost two months since our last mix? Hey, give us a break. We’ve been busy. All this groundbreaking music coverage doesn’t write itself, you know. Plus, we had the holidays to contend with. Everyone’s busy around the holidays, right? Yeah, that’s a feasible excuse…

“Something, Somewhere, Sometime” is from the forthcoming Dear Companion, to be released on February 16, 2010 on Sub Pop, a collaboration between three Kentucky musicians: the songs are written and performed by Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore, and produced by and featuring Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket and Monsters of Folk. Recorded in [...]

Seattle bands A Frames and Climax Golden Twins conjoined into AFCGT a little over two years ago and have already been dishing out vinyl, recording a 10-inch EP, a full-length LP, and appearing on a 7-inch compilation, not to mention a few super-limited CDRs thrown in for kicks. With three electric guitars, a bass [...]

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In 1992, Nirvana’s Nevermind went number one — bumping Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” off the album charts. They were anti-rock stars who fought their stardom while courting it, becoming an unprecedented multi-platinum sensation. The music world has not been the same since.
Marking the 20th Anniversary of Nirvana’s debut album, Sub Pop will re-issue the Platinum Certified [...]

It’s September 8, 1998. I’m less than two weeks into my freshman year of college, and already I’m bored and alienated, the world around me awash in the sounds of Korn and Dave Matthews, the smell of dormitory BO and cheap hair gel, and the sight of 30-packs of watery light swill portioned out into [...]

You have to hand it to Sub Pop — they really went all out to make the reissues of the first two Sunny Day Real Estate albums, Diary and LP2, an essential part of the fan’s collection. Packaged in beautiful cardboard folders with CD sleeves and brand-new liner notes, the packaging alone is enough to [...]

In late 2007 during some off-time from the Foo Fighters, bassist Nate Mendel started making phone calls. He was the instigator behind the reformation of Sunny Day Real Estate, back together with all four original members for the first time since 1995.
The band dates back to humble beginnings, when in 1992 in Seattle, Washington, a [...]

You love music, that’s just a fact. But let’s not pretend that music doesn’t come with a host of problems. For starters, there’s just too much of it. I mean, there are only 24 hours in a day and it seems like there’s a great new band popping up every second. That’s 86,400 new bands [...]

In 1992, Nirvana’s Nevermind went number one — bumping Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” off the album charts. They were anti-rock stars who fought their stardom while courting it, becoming an unprecedented multi-platinum sensation. The music world has not been the same since.
This version of “Scoff” is a previously unreleased version from a 1990 live show at [...]

Lou Reed once asked, “What becomes a legend most?” No doubt the unfailingly modest Lou Barlow would blanch at being called a “legend.” And yet when you take the long-view, few artists have been as prolific, productive, and influential over the last 20 years. Barlow burst onto the scene as the bass-player in the seminal [...]

When Sunny Day Real Estate collapsed in early 1995, few would have predicted the impact the Seattle band’s music would still be having over a decade later. Now, more than 15 years since Sub Pop released Sunny Day’s landmark debut album Diary, the band’s original lineup is reuniting this fall to deliver its emotionally charged [...]

Singer-guitarist Mat Brooke had big plans for Grand Archives’ sophomore album. The band had written a slew of new songs, and honed them during sound checks around the world. They were good to go. And when they entered the studio and the tapes started rolling?
“It sounded kind of… Like guys who don’t really play rock [...]