Washed Out‘s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks in part to Ernest Greene’s cooed vocals backed by sleek, icy snyth lines played through gentle layers of reverb and delay pedals […]
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Released through Sub Pop Records, Metz’s self-titeld album landed on number 12 on this site’s Best of 2012 list, thanks in part to blistering, face-melting, sludgy power chords, pounding drums and howled vocals. When you […]
Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler has had a reputation for being weird, going back to his days as a member of the Grammy-winning Digable Planets. After all, for a hip hop act, Digable Planets was extremely weird […]
Italian band His Electro Blue Voice has been around for a bit, releasing singles and EPs through a number of indie labels. The band recently signed to Sub Pop Records and contributed “Kiduit,” to Sub […]
http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1369096816 Daughn Gibson‘s Me Moan had received quite a bit of attention for it’s mixture of brooding, old school country with the use of modern recording techniques – samplers, effect pedals, synths and the like. All Hell is the […]
Sub Pop Records will be releasing the London-based duo, Still Corners’ sophomore effort Strange Pleasures on May 7th. “Berlin Lovers,” the first single off the album has the band gently expanding their sound with a greater emphasis […]
Ishmael “Butterfy” Butler, formerly of Digable Planets has a long developed reputation for creating an uncompromising hip hop sound – one that defies easy description or categorization. His current project, Shabazz Palaces, furthers cements that […]
Metz’s self-titled album was number 12 on this site’s Best of 2012 list, and that’s because the album absolutely kicks ass with the grungy power chords familiar to those who loved the classic Sub Pop […]
http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1362214440 Sub Pop Records artist Rose Windows can trace their origins to Fall 2010 when lead singer Chris Cheveyo found himself tiring of the limited sonic palette of his prior band. Although he was interested […]
http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1362004231 Over the last couple of years, Denton, TX has developed a reputation for being a hotbed of some really interesting and at times strange music, including Sub Pop Records’ own, the Baptist Generals. The […]
http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1361818290 Still Corners, the duo of songwriter Greg Hughes and vocalist Tessa Murray released their 2010 debut, Creatures of an Hour to generally favorably critical reviews – NME, and Drowned in Sound in particular offered praise of Creatures. The […]
Survival Knife is a new band featuring Justin Trosper (guitar/vocals) and Brandt Sandeno (guitar) from Unwound, as well as Meg Cunningham (bass/vocals) from Blues Druid and Kris Cunningham (drums) from Western Hymn. Sub Pop Records […]
Canal + TV series, Les Revenants is adapted from the eponymous Robin Campillo-directed film of the same name. The series like the movie is set in an isolated, French mountain village where the locals have been disturbed after children […]
The Baltimore, MD-based duo of Beach House released their critically acclaimed album, Bloom through Sub Pop Records last year – the album managed to land on the Best of 2012 lists of about 50 publications, including the Village […]
Sub Pop labelmates Shabazz Palaces and the Helio Sequence are touring as part of a co-headlining tour throughout January and February — you can catch them in Atlanta, GA; Miami, FL; Asheville, NC; Orlando, FL; Nashville, TN; Louisville, KY; St. Louis, MO; and ending in Bloomington, IN before the […]