DICK LAING, SALES.
“Ten Appealing Songs”
Antony and the Johnsons – Another World
Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Which Way To Go
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
Grouper – Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Sleeping
Juana Molina – Un Dia
Obits – One Cross Apiece
No Age – Sleeper Hold
NOMO - Rings
Portishead – Machine Gun

CHRIS JACOBS, BOSS.
David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colours
Thomas Function – Celebration
Constantines – Kensington Heights
Obits – “One Cross Apiece” b/w “Put It…

New session of the Ruby Suns posted today on Daytrotter.com – check it out here

Also on Pitchfork today too!

With Vetiver’s Sub Pop Records debut slated for early next year, you don’t have much time to purchase and digest all of their previous releases. So please do not hesitate, the time is nigh.

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For the first time on our website, we have a Fleet Foxes t-shirt available. We are a bit nervous that our site won’t be able to handle the extra e-traffic generated by the high-demand for these t-shirts. I guess what I’m saying is, get em while you can.

Right here

Hey! Good news! Our old friends The Murder City Devils are doing a string of west coast dates in February!

Those guys also just recently put together a fancy new website: themurdercitydevils.com. And, we’ll be reissuing all of The Murder City Devils’ full-lengths (plus Thelema) on vinyl in February, to coincide with the tour.

The Feb. dates are all up in the tour section of the Sub Pop site now!

The full press release on the tour can be found here

See you…

It’s true. The Ruby Suns song “Oh, Mojave” has been used by Microsoft in their commercial for somthing called Windows Vista. I asked our IT department what that was and apparently its what makes your computer go, but only if you’re using the John Hodgman kind of computer. So there you have it. Anyway, if for some reason you overhear your friend (or even someone else’s friend) mumbling to his or herself “My oh my that’s a catchy little ditty…

To Whom it May Concern,
I’m writing to say how much I appreciate including a digital download with your packaged vinyl. LP records have long been my preferred format for a multitude of reasons. On the other hand, I lack the components to transcribe my analog collection to a compressed digital format. So, for all recently purchased music, this meant making sacrifices when buying on my preferred medium. Sub Pop vinyl means no compromises Now, I always check the vinyl section…

[Hey Philly Kid—Send me your address and I’ll send you a treat! -ed.]

From: thephiladelphiakid@XXXX
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 10:34 AM
To: info
Subject: How is this? Re: Mail Bag Back in Action – L. Swain

Too Sober Right Now For Anything Too Interesting

I’ll write something better after I’ve had a few. Saw Mudhoney in Lancaster, PA last weekend. I wish I would have had a chance to talk with them, because I would have asked, “WHY THE HELL ARE YOU ALL THE HELL…

We at Sub Pop Records have always thought quite a bit of ourselves. But lately, it’s been getting a little ridiculous, even for us. However, it is our innate ability to cast aside just these sorts of, fortunately fleeting, moments of self-doubt and humility that fills us with such overwhelming pride to announce… THE SUB POP SCHOLARSHIP! Somewhat incredibly, and momentarily ignoring the fact that we have managed to misspell our own name (which consists of two three-letter words…) on…

From the very outset, we at Sub Pop Records have displayed a deep commitment to conspicuous self-promotion (and questionable taste in “music”). But, a bit more discreetly and when we have found ourselves flush enough to afford such largesse, we have also done our best to support worthy organizations in our community, and beyond. Seattle’s Vera Project (a music/ arts center run by and for youth) and The Service Board (a community service, mentoring and snowboarding program for high school-age…

2009 is here and we’re starting off the year real slow like, so there are no new records on which to report this month. There’s nothing like looking backward to see how you’re moving forward (?!), so let’s take a walk down Sub Pop employee memory lane via facebook. Thanks for uploading these unwanted embarrassing photos, friends of my coworkers! Keep ‘em coming and I’ll keep sharing! The first person to correctly identify all of these awkward teenagers will receive…

Well, well, it’s November already and I’m sure I probably don’t need to mention it, but if you don’t vote on November 4th then you are a total asshole. Moving on…

In a somewhat unprecedented but sure to be financially viable move, Sub Pop will only release vinyl singles for the remainder of 2008 or until gay marriage is legal in Washington state, whichever comes first. In celebration of Obama’s win tomorrow we are letting loose onto the earth three singles…

Hey there e-shopper! We’ve had a busy year here at the Sub Pop International Headquarters of America and are taking a holiday-style break starting Monday the 22nd of December.

Please, do not fear. We will still be taking online orders at this time for your various Sub Pop needs and desires, but we won’t be shipping them until after the New Year. We are going to take this time to get some much needed R&R before regrouping and totally doing…

(Stream Stray Age in full here!)

On October 7th, Stray Age, the debut recording from Daniel Martin Moore will be available to you on CD and as modern, downloadable MP3s. You’ve never heard of Daniel Martin Moore, from Cold Spring, Kentucky and that’s okay. Before we got his unsolicited demo in January 2007, neither had we. Luckily, he’d heard of us, and contacted us the way people in Cold Spring still do—he sent us a package, just to see what would…

As you are one of our preferred clients, we have gone to the small trouble of assembling the following information for you: Lisa, our resident antiquarian, offers the following tidbit with regard to the colors and types of vinyl used in the manufacture of musical recordings: “it might be worth mentioning, in regard to colored vinyl, that it’s not always completely consistent, and that sometimes there are variations in coloring. Sometimes they even used leftover colored vinyl that was lying around the plant, so it’s possible that there are odd copies of odd singles on completely different colors.” Wisdom well ?

No.

Iron and Wine is back and groovin’ like you’ve never heard him groove before. On this song Innocent Bones from the new album The Shepherd’s Dog you’ll hear very prominent bongos and piano that are probably new to your ears but the sweet banjo melody and beautiful layered vocals are still the same, this tune is a gem!

Punching Goodbye out Front is the first download we’re offering off the new Kinski record, Down Below It’s Chaos (which is out August 21st). It’s also one of three tracks on the new record that features vocals courtesy of guitarist Chris Martin. We’re pretty fond of it and hope you are too.

We’re now offering instant gratification to our web customers by means of streaming-album-access-emails!

When you purchase selected titles directly from subpop.com in any format (LP, CD, even MP3) we’ll send you a link with your receipt that allows you to stream the album immediately.

Currently, the following album purchases entitle you to a Sub Pop Instant Gratification Stream™:

The Helio Sequence, Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Kelley Stoltz, Circular Sounds
Grand Archives, The Grand Archives
The Ruby Suns, Sea Lion
Oxford Collapse, Bits
Death Vessel, ??Nothing Is Precious…

Did you know: the MP3s we’re offering for sale on the site of the Fleet Foxes stunning new Sun Giant EP at 256k? It’s the first of our MP3 records that we’ve been able to make available at the higher bitrate.

Lap it up! All 256k bits are belong to you.