Our pals at MTV’s Subterranean have unearthed some footage of Sunny Day Real Estate playing live on 120 Minutes. (Woah, man, I’m having a flashback.) Check it out here

Our friends at Fantagraphics Books have a whole bunch of cool stuff planned for the month of August at their store here in Seattle. This whole bunch of cool stuff includes an appearance by our old pal and former Low member Zak Sally!

Here are the details:

Zak Sally, a notorious Minneapolis-based musician and cartoonist will perform music and sign books on Saturday, August 2 from 6:00 – 9:00 PM at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery (1201 S. Vale Street, Seattle…

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

Welcome to the content section of this informational post. I’d like to take this opportunity to inform you of five new t-shirt designs we have recently made available for your upper-half – your better half. First off, we have two shirts from No Age, both featuring a shiny metallic silver ink – futuristic? Yeah, maybe. Second, we have a Sera Cahoone shirt featuring the noblest of all woodland creatures, the mighty stag. Up next, we’ve got a Foals shirt. And…

Popular Seattle combo Fleet Foxes were interviewed by legendary broadcaster John Norris. Filmers filmed said interview and put it into the internet. You can take it out of the internet and into your life using the links below.

Interview part one

Interview part two

White Winter Hymnal

You can buy Fleet Foxes music here. I recommend buying the vinyl version of Fleet Foxes as it includes the magnificent Sun Giant EP and a download code to get all the music digitally.

You can buy…

New news from The Go! Team!

The Go! Team’s free digital stuff site is live today here.

You’ll find a new recording of “Milk Crisis,” the 4 track EP of “Get It Together,” their first release, some remixes they’ve done of others and others have done of them and some song parts for you to monkey around with—”Ladyflash” and the Chuck D-featuring “Flashlight Fight.” Feel free to send yr remixes to remix@thegoteam.co.uk.

The Team will be adding more downloads…

From: Victoria
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:57 PM
To: info
Subject: Vinyl is awesome

Hey Sub Pop!
I wasn’t sure where to send this so I just picked an e-mail I found on your site. I just wanted you to know that you hold the distinction of releasing the only CD I have bought all year, the Fleet Foxes EP Sun Giant. This week I have bought two more new albums, The Grand Archives and Fleet Foxes’ full length, both of which I…

hey guys…

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…

Hello, friends! This column is late so we’re just going to deal with the facts this month. Fact One: The new album by CSS entitled Donkey will finally be released on LP on August 5th—summer can officially begin! CSS is on tour—click here to see if they’re coming to your neck. Fact Two: Oxford Collapse is also releasing a new record on the 5th. Theirs is called BITS and you can get it here. They’ve been making all these crazy…

The Fleet Foxes record comes out on June 3rd and the LP—and it’s a gate-fold LP, mind you—comes with a digital download code, AND includes the Sun Giant EP on a second piece of vinyl! This is currently the only way to get Sun Giant on vinyl so it seems crazy not to buy it. Oh, this record is coming out on CD, too, if you’re into that. Buy it here. Want to know all about Fleet Foxes? Look here...

On August 19th, we’re releasing Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us, the brand new Death Vessel record, on both CD and fidelity-maximizing LP (with free digital download code). Because we are intent on you purchasing this record from us, we are offering it to you for two bucks off the already thrifty price of $12, making it, until August 19th, a budget-defying $10! And that’s not all; we’re also going to throw in a Death Vessel button and a couple…

On August 5th, Brooklyn’s Oxford Collapse are giving the world BITS, their latest record, and here at Sub Pop, we couldn’t be more motivated to sell you this record! Don’t believe us? How about this: if you pre-order BITS by August 5th, we will throw in, at no extra charge, a very special, very limited photograph taken by Oxford Collapse while on tour. We say very limited because we had doubles printed so the band could have a copy too…

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.

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.

You may have noticed that Sub Pop Radio has been down for the past couple of days. You may even be concerned about it’s safety. Don’t worry, it’s not going anywhere. We’re currently between broadcasting servers—until now the radio station has been running from my the iTunes on my desktop machine, which, (while I love Sub Pop Radio) proved to be unsustainable at best. But we’ve got an art-department-retired mac that we’re setting up as a separate broadcast station and…