About
Sub Pop (short for Subterranean Pop) is an American record label based in Seattle (Washington State). The label was an outgrowth of Bruce Pavitt's Olympia, WA based (print) fanzine, which became the well respected cassettezine of the same name. After his move to Seattle he ran a music column in the Seattle Rocket also called Sub Pop. After initial forays into the record label world with a Green River 7" (not officially on Sub Pop) and the Sub Pop 100 LP, the label exploded onto the indie scene with four influential colored vinyl 7"s which included Mudhoney's Touch Me I'm Sick which made the year-end top 10 playlist of nearly every music journalist in the world. Subsequent hyping of the label in the English music press put them on the map, and grunge was born. Label-Code is 03159; rarely found printed on releases (basically only on releases manufactured/licensed by Warner/WEA Germany)
Sub Pop Artist Roster
Sub-labels
Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 5
5th edition of notorious Sub Pop subscription service commencing April 2020. 12 limited-edition vinyl 7” singles, great-sounding, great-looking delivered straight to your mailbox between April 202...
Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 6
6th edition of Sub Pop's monthly subscription service of 12 limited edition vinyl 7” singles. Service commencing April 2021 but due to production delays Sub Pop was not able to ship all singles ...
Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 7
The seventh volume of the 'Sub Pop Singles Club', a monthly subscription service run by the record label — based in Seattle, Washington, USA. Vol. 7, catalog no. 'SP1515', consis...
Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 8
The eighth volume of the 'Sub Pop Singles Club', a monthly subscription service run by the record label Sub Pop — based in Seattle, Washington, USA. Vol. 8, catalog no. 'SP1562', consists of tw...
Sub Pop Video Network
Die Young Stay Pretty Records
Short-lived sublabel of Sub Pop. Founded in 1996, the label released several garage-punk oriented records by bands such as Murder City Devils. In the early 2000s, a few albums released on Sub Pop h...
Hardly Art
Hardly Art is an independent record label based in Seattle, WA. Founded in early 2007 by Sub Pop Records, Hardly Art is run by three full-time employees and is distributed by the Alternative Distri...
Paper Bag Series
Sub Pop employee's, and Amy Seidenwurm, side project while working at label. Paper Bag Series' office was housed inside the same Terminal Sales Building at 1932 1st Ave as its parent lab...
Sub Pop Singles Club
The first volume of the Sub Pop Singles Club, a monthly subscription service run by Records. The club ran from November 1988 till December 1993 and issued one single per month to its subsc...
Sub Pop Singles Club V.2
Second iteration of the Sub Pop Singles Club running from April 1998 to March 2002. Subscribers received one 7" single in the mail each month, though production problems caused some singles to be i...
Sub Pop Singles Club 3.0
Third iteration of the Sub Pop Singles Club that ran from August 2008 to October 2009. Members received one 7" single by mail monthly, though releases were sometimes late. It was intended to last f...
Next Ambiance
Next Ambiance was founded by Jon Kertzer in 2008. It is a subsidiary of Sub Pop for certain world music releases. The label was named after Kertzer's former KEXP radio show "Best Ambiance."
SPF30 Singles Spectacular
Celebrating 30 years of Sub Pop "On August 11th at SPF30, Sub Pop will offer the “SPF30 Singles Spectacular”: 4 limited-edition commemorative split 7” singles featuring as-yet-unreleased tracks ...
Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 4
4th edition of notorious Sub Pop subscription service commencing April 2019. Type:Album Release Date:November 1, 2018 Catalog No:SP1309 Label:Sub Pop Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 4 This i...
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