Sub Pop Records’ 20th Anniversary

Happy Birthday, Sub Pop

Most of you are probably scratching your heads right about now and saying “Who?” “What?” “Huh?”

2008 is Sub Pop Records’ 20th anniversary, and if you’re one of those who believes good music isn’t sponsored by Ford Trucks or a by-product of the American Idol scrap heap, then you need to celebrate this one. They’re the guys who signed Mudhoney, Nirvana, and Soundgarden - and instead of becoming some shack-house relic to grunge, they’ve managed to profit from actually fostering bands the major labels wouldn’t event touch. Thus, enabling the rest of us to shoulder a feeling of superiority to have even heard of these groups years later. In other words, they’re always ahead of the curve.

Want proof? How about acts like The Shins, Sleater-Kinney, Afghan Whigs, L7, Band of Horses, Iron & Wine, The Postal Service…ah sweet Jesus, I could go on forever. Take a look at the following…and folks, this ain’t even their entire catalogue… Just a taste of the Sub Pop musicians:


10 Minute Warning, 5ive Style, A Frames, Afghan Whigs, The Album Leaf, All Night Radio, Band of Horses, The Baptist Generals, Beachwood Sparks, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Big Chief, The Black Halos, Blitzen Trapper, The Blue Rags, Broken Girl, The Brunettes, Sera Cahoone, The Catheters, Chappaquiddick Skyline, Billy Childish, Chixdiggit, Chris and Carla, Codeine, Combustible Edison, Comets on Fire, Constantines, Cosmic Psychos, David Cross, CSS, Damon and Naomi Davis, Dead Moon, Death Vessel, Dntel, Julie Doiron, Heather Duby, Dwarves, Earth, The Elected, Elevator Through, Elevator to Hell, Jeremy Enigk, Eric’s Trip, The Evil Tambourines, Fastbacks, Steve Fisk, Fleet Foxes, Flight of The Conchords, Fluid Fruit Bats, Gardener, Gluecifer, Go! Team, The Go, godheadSilo, Grand Archives, Green Magnet School, Green River, The Grifters, The Gutter Twins, Handsome Furs, The Helio Sequence, The Hellacopters, Holopaw, Hot Hot Heat, Mike Ireland, Iron and Wine, Jale, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Damien Jurado, Mark Lanegan, Les Thugs, Jason Loewenstein, Loney, Dear Looper, Love as Laughter, Love Battery, Nebula, Nirvana, No Age, Patton Oswalt, Oxford Collapse, Pernice Brothers, Pigeonhed, The Postal Service, Radio Birdman, The Rapture, Red House Painters, Red Red Meat, Rein Sanction, The Reverend Horton Heat, Rogue Wave, The Ruby Suns, Sebadoh, The Shins, Six Finger Satellite, Sleater-Kinney, Soundgarden, The Spinanes, Rosie Thomas, The Vaselines, The Walkabouts, Wipers, Wolf Parade, The Yo-Yo’s, Michael Yonkers, Zen Guerrilla, Zumpano

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