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  Wind-Powered Electric Guitars? Sub Pop Records Goes Green (TreeHugger)
Sub Pop Records has always been on the cutting edge of the music industry, discovering and giving rise to bands like Nirvana, Iron and Wine and The Shins.
To date, Sub Pop Records is the first Green-e certified record label company in the United States.
Kelley Stoltz, an artist on the Sub Pop label, broke similar ground earlier this year when he used the Green-e tag to certify that his record, Below the Branches, was recorded using 100% renewable energy (we covered it here).
www.treehugger.com /files/2006/08/sub_pop_records_1.php   (1964 words)

  
  Sub Pop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sub Pop is a record label in Seattle, Washington famous for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, and many other bands from the local scene.
Sub Pop was started by Bruce Pavitt in 1980 as a fanzine called Subterranean Pop (which was changed to Sub Pop starting with the 2nd issue).
This allowed Sub Pop to become a powerful company in the local scene, as well as make their label's name synonymous with the music of the Seattle area, much in the same way Motown Records was to Detroit.
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 Sub Pop
Sub Pop is a Seattle, Washington-based record label, famous for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden and other grunge bands.
Sub Pop began in 1980 as a fanzine called Subterranean Pop (the name changed to Sub Pop starting with issue 2), which, inspired by Fast Forward cassette fanzine, began alternating issues with compilation tapes of American bands (though several foreign bands did appear on Sub Pop cassettes).
There were nine issues of Sub Pop fanzine in all, six magazines and three cassettes (issues 5, 7 and 9).
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/su/sub_pop.html   (222 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Sub Pop Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
After issue 9, Sub Pop switched to an all-cassette format, but the amount of work required scuttled the project.
Other artists who have been signed to Sub Pop or had material released through them include Tad, The Shins, Afghan Whigs, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney, L7, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Hot Hot Heat, Iron and Wine and The Postal Service.
Sub Pop is also known for sales representative Megan Jasper, who created the hoax of grunge speak.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sub-Pop-Records   (265 words)

  
 soundgenerator | record labels | Sub Pop Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sub Pop Records is the Seattle indie-rock label that gave birth to grunge in the late 80s.
Sub Pop launched and defined an era that rocked the music world from the 80s through today by signing such acts as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, and the Afghan Whigs.
Sub Pop was founded in 1988 by Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt.
www.soundgenerator.com /directory/label_detail.cfm?CompanyID=3078   (145 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - Klaatu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Klaatu didn't care...they were recording records their own way and if it sounded British or American than so be it.
Capitol Records by this time were increasingly tired of being told what to do by one of their own acts and threatened to pull the plug on the band unless they shipped up and delivered a radio friendly contemporary record.
The band briefly reunited in January 1988 to record "Woman" which was released as a single, but the song was a disappointing comeback and the band returned to their lives as before.
jam.canoe.ca /Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/K/Klaatu.html   (2332 words)

  
 Being There
Sub Pop released Nirvana's first single, "Love Buzz," and immediately sent the band on what turned out to be a fledgling and quickly aborted British tour.
Sub Pop's most recent acquisition was the female punk band Sleater-Kinney, formerly of the nearby Olympia's Kill Rock Stars label, who joined Sub Pop in October.
By their willingness to change with the ever mercurial popular music scene and by placing their focus on the always prolific Pacific Northwest, Sub Pop has outstayed many of their indie label contemporaries and continues to grow and change into a future as full of possibility as it is uncertainty.
www.beingtheremag.com /content/0502/indies.html   (951 words)

  
 Sub pop -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sub pop -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Sub pop is a sub-genre of (additional info and facts about indie rock) indie rock that is similar to (additional info and facts about twee pop) twee pop.
A focus on melodic hooks and simplistic orchestration, it varies from (Music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love) pop music by attempting to find a more common element with its audience.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/su/sub_pop.htm   (94 words)

  
 Sub Pop Records - Elusive Disc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Format: Sub Pop Records LP Deeply moving and endlessly surprising, an epic tapestry of crunchy guitars, ethereal textures and expressive hooks, Infiniheart is VanGaalen's first for Sub Pop.
Format: Sub Pop Records LP The Second full-length from Southern California's Beachwood Sparks, Once We Were Trees, finds the band expanding upon the psychedelic country rock of their self-titled 2000 debut.
Format: Sub Pop Records LP Co-produced by Low and David Fridmann, The Great Destroyer is a welcome surprise and, in the end, a rock n' roll revelation.
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 G4 - Feature - Sub Pop
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, Sub Pop Records, the defining independent label in the United States, provided a fertile breeding ground for the grunge movement.
Sub Pop's early catalog is peppered with names such as Mudhoney, The Flaming Lips, Soundgarden, Fugazi, Sebadoh, The Afghan Whigs, and Nirvana.
Sub Pop seems to want to turn itself into a global indie label such as Matador (the Sub Pop of the 90s).
www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/21607/Sub_Pop.html   (248 words)

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