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NEWS : THU, NOV 26, 2020 at 4:00 PM

Sub Pop’s 2020 ACTUALIZATION PLAN and Holiday Sale is happening now!

Each year, in a gesture of true benevolence and gratitude, we offer you, very nearly the best followers customers in the whole wide world, an irresistible holiday sale.

And, in this one way, this year is no different! We’re offering you true believers a once-in-a-lifetime (or, certainly not more than about once in a calendar year) opportunity to join us in total enlightenment by participating in our 30-60-90 Actualization Plan and Holiday Sale.

There are three different, yet intertwined paths your journey may take; only you can determine what action is best for you (though we strongly recommend the 90 option).

30: Get 20% off your entire order when you spend $30 or more.

60: Get 20% off you entire order, PLUS receive an email with a discount code for 20% off your next pre-order* when you spend $60 or more.

90: Get 20% off you entire order, receive an email with a discount code for 20% off your next pre-order*, PLUS get free domestic shipping when you spend $90 or more.

What is eligible?  Everything in the shop is eligible for 20% off, except pre-orders, Sub Pop Singles Club subscriptions and gift cards. We’re particularly fond of our 2020 releases, as well as our facemasks, super comfy flannels, and the jigsaw puzzle of the cover of Bleach.

Please note!  If there are any pre-order items in your cart at checkout, your entire order will not ship until the shipping date of the furthest out pre-order. That means your order will not ship until after the first of the year, and you will not receive any part of your order in time for the holidays.

The solution to this is: place multiple orders.

All orders placed by/on December 13th are guaranteed to ship out before we close up shop for the year, so get your orders in early and often. Related to this impending warehouse closure, any orders placed between December 14th and January 3rd will not ship out until after we are back in operation on January 4th. 

*Your discount code for 20% off your next pre-order will be sent out via email in January.

Thank you in advance for your ongoing support and patronage. This year has been a real mo-fo, and it requires a fair amount of chutzpah in that context to try to pull off the kind of Serenity Now BS we’re aiming for here. Know that we appreciate (what we hope will be) your wildly overzealous gift buying for you and your loved ones, and genuinely wish you a bitchen enlightenment.

With eternal gratitude,

Sub Pop.



Posted by Chris Jacobs

NEWS : THU, NOV 19, 2020 at 10:57 PM

Bob’s Burgers Thanksgiving and Christmas EPs available digitally worldwide from Sub Pop

Stream Bob’s Burgers Thanksgiving now in all the digital places -> smarturl.it/BobsBurgers_Tgiving

Stream Bob’s Burgers Christmas starting next Friday, November 27th.

Sub Pop will release Bob’s Burgers Thanksgiving and Bob’s Burgers Christmas which features holiday-themed songs from the 20th Television’s Emmy-award winning hit comedy, which just celebrated its 200th episode. 
 
The two holiday releases feature music performed by the main cast members – Bob (H. Jon Benjamin), Linda (John Roberts), their children Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman) and Louise (Kristen Schaal), and handyman Teddy (Larry Murphy).


 
Available today is Bob’s Burgers Thanksgiving, featuring five songs from the show:

Bob’s Burgers Thanksgiving 
Tracklisting
1. Gravy Boat
2. You’ve Got The Guts
3. Saving The Bird
4. Give It To Teddy
5. Kill The Turkey


Next Friday, November 27th, Bob’s Burgers Christmas will be released which features ten songs including “Twinkly Lights,” “Christmas Of My Dreams” and “The Bleaken.”

Bob’s Burgers Christmas
Tracklisting
1. Christmas of My Dreams
2. Teddy’s Bleaken Story
3. The Bleaken
4. Art Song
5. O Christmas Tree
6. The Bleaken Reprise
7. Do You Hear What I Hear?
8. Twinkly Lights
9. Snowballs and Sledding
10. You Can’t Spell Christmas Without Us


About Bob’s Burgers Thanksgiving and Bob’s Burgers Christmas:

Bob’s Burgers loves music. Bob’s Burgers loves the holidays. Bob’s Burgers loves holiday music during the holidays!

Sub Pop Records has gathered together these fan-favorite holiday musical moments from seasons one through eleven so you can enjoy them with your own burger family.  Produced by the series creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard’s Wilo Productions in partnership with Bento Box Entertainment, with Sub Pop licensing the rights from 20th Television. 

Fans know that music is more than just a condiment to Bob’s.  With a combination of silliness and heartfelt emotion, the music of Bob’s Burgers is part of the meat of the thing itself.  So put these holiday sound burgers in your mouth-ears and enjoy!

Bob’s Burgers Thanksgiving and Bob’s Burgers Christmas available worldwide through all DSPS from Sub Pop.

About Bento Box Entertainment
Bento Box Entertainment (BBE) is an Emmy® award-winning entertainment content and technology company.  With studios in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Toronto, BBE produces animated comedy series for broadcast, cable and digital networks.  This includes Bob’s Burgers, the Primetime Emmy®-winning FOX series with 20th Television and creator Loren Bouchard; Comedy Central series Legends of Chamberlain Heights; among many others. With creative thinking, disruptive content and innovative technology at its core, BBE is dedicated to extending its reach to new audiences through its digital; Sutikki (kids); content rights; and live events, merchandise and brand management business units. BBE can be followed across social media channels @bentoboxent.


Posted by Rachel White

NEWS : WED, NOV 18, 2020 at 10:58 PM

Lael Neale shares official video for her new single “For No One For Now”

Lael Neale is sharing an official video for new single “For No One For Now,” an uptempo lament set in Didion’s Los Angeles. The disco drum track of the Omnichord calls to mind the agitated beat of driving fast on the freeway against the backdrop of the San Fernando Valley with its bent palms. Lael offers this, “I’ve always loved these stretches of road where the magic of the city seems hemmed in by the mundane.” The song contrasts romantic idealizations with the banality of folding sheets and toasting bread. “For No One For Now” is available worldwide on all DSPs from Sub Pop.


 
Lael grew up on a farm in Virginia among acres of clouds, fields, and woods. It was writing and writers close to nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Steinbeck, and Mary Oliver - that she most connected with. In 2009, she moved to California with a rising devotion to music and for nearly 10 years has called Los Angeles home.  She worked with countless musicians, producers and collaborators, making entire records and eventually stowing them away. Despite endless frustration, she never resigned.  After discovering a new instrument, the Omnichord, she experienced a moment of illumination and began recording a deluge of emerging songs with the intention to capture them in their truest form.  She remarks, “Guy Blakeslee who had been an advocate for years facilitated the process. He set up a cassette 4-track in my bedroom and provided empathic guidance, subtle yet affecting accompaniment, and engineering prowess.”


 
She returned to her family farm back in April 2020 and has taken advantage of the limitations imposed by this period. She resurrected her old Sony Handycam from high school and is using it to make impressionistic companion pieces to the songs she recorded in Los Angeles.


 
She continues, “I am enjoying the strong contrast between the songs I wrote and recorded in California and the videos I am making for them in Virginia. It offers something unexpected.” In this installment, starry-eyed fantasy is cut with dull reality and a touch of the otherworldly.  It is at once dreamy and creepy. The sweetness is skinned by subtle humor as she pokes fun at her own romanticism. 


Lael Neale
“For No One For Now”

Single Artwork


Posted by Rachel White

NEWS : TUE, NOV 17, 2020 at 10:58 PM

The Postal Service’s ‘Everything Will Change’ live album will be available on all DSPs December 4th

Now Watch/Stream: “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (Live)” and “Natural Anthem (Live)”

The Postal Service’s Everything Will Change live album will be available digitally for the first time on December 4th, 2020 worldwide through Sub Pop. The beloved band’s 15-track set, which features fan favorites ”Such Great Heights,” “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight,” “Sleeping In” and “Natural Anthem,” along with a cover of Beat Happening’s “Our Secret” and a rare live take on Dntel’s “(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan,” was performed live at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA, during their 2013 reunion tour. This 2020 release of Everything Will Change was remixed by Don Gunn and remastered by Dave Cooley earlier this year, from the recordings that were originally released as part of the the 2014 concert film.
 
Relive that night by watching live performances of “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight,” and “Natural Anthem” now.
 
A collaboration between Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (from Dntel), with Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis, The Postal Service released Give Up, their one and only album, in 2003. That record went on to sell over a million copies and most of the band’s fans never had the chance to see them perform live. In 2013 and in celebration of the 10-year anniversary of Give Up, Sub Pop released an expanded, deluxe version of that album and the band reunited to tour the world.



Everything Will Change was also released in 2014 as a feature-length documentary concert film directed by Justin Mitchell and includes intimate interviews, backstage footage of the band. The Everything Will Change film and Give Up are also available through Sub Pop.

The Postal Service
Everything Will Change
Tracklisting:
1. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
2. We Will Become Silhouettes
3. Sleeping In
4. Turn Around
5. Nothing Better
6. Recycled Air
7. Be Still My Heart
8. Clark Gable
9. Our Secret (Beat Happening cover)
10. This Place Is a Prison
11. A Tattered Line of String
12. Such Great Heights
13. Natural Anthem
14. (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Dntel)
15. Brand New Colony


Posted by Rachel White

NEWS : FRI, NOV 13, 2020 at 7:00 AM

Marika Hackman’s new album ‘Covers’ is out today. Join her tonight for the worldwide album release live stream.

Covers is out now in North and South America through Sub Pop.

Today, Marika Hackman releases Covers, a darkly beautiful, self-produced new album which showcases a more vulnerable side. 

Marika will be performing with her full band tonight in an abandoned swimming pool. Tickets for the show available here - the show starts at 8.30pm GMT with a second stream at 9pm EST/6pm PT.



During the extended stay-at-home orders of the last few months, Marika felt that creating a covers record was a way of exploring new sound ideas and expressing herself without having the pressure of the blank page. She recorded and produced Covers between home and her parents’ house, then got David Wrench to mix it. In contrast to her last two albums (including 2019’s Any Human Friend & 2017’s I’m Not Your Man), this collection of songs is more akin in tone and feel to her debut We Slept At Last, with a darker and more introspective sound. On Covers, we hear Marika’s emotive voice set against sparse arrangements of guitars and strings with the occasional synth or scattered drum groove.
 
Breathing new life into the songs she’s chosen, Marika reimagines work by some of the world’s most beloved artists, such as Radiohead, Grimes, Beyonce and Elliott Smith. It’s a suitably varied collection, but Marika’s intimate delivery and soft, nuanced and atmospheric touch to production, thread them all together effortlessly.

Marika explains how she came to choose the material:
“When it comes to covers, I like to pick songs which I have been listening to obsessively for a while. It gives me a natural understanding of the music, and lets me be more innovative with how I transform it.”

For Covers, Marika turned to her musical heroes to get her through the year’s weirdness. The album is a new way of hearing some familiar things, and some less known, through the lens of this formidable artist.

“Realiti” is a stripped back piano and guitar based version of the Grimes classic from her most celebrated album Art Angels. Marika’s take is a total reinvention and yet it feels wholly her own. Muna’s ”Pink Light” from their 2019 record Saves The World is a slice of dark pop, reminiscent of The Cure. In Marika’s hands, it’s a remarkably seamless switch-up to convert these into slower, brooding soft jams.

Marika was obsessed with the Shins growing up and cites their songwriting as a major influence. ”Phantom Limb” the track she chose to cover was always a favorite and, whilst looking up the lyrics she discovered that the song was written about a “hypothetical, fictional account of a young, lesbian couple in high school dealing with the shitty small town they live in.” Finding this out created an even deeper connection with the song and band.

Marika’s version of Air’s ”Playground Love“ is one of the highlights, taken from the soundtrack that Air composed for Sofia Coppola’s coming of age The Virgin Suicides, the result being a moodier, disorientating reworking of a classic modern moment.

Final track ”All Night” sees Marika tackling one of the standouts from Beyonce’s Grammy nominated Lemonade. Again, Marika flips the song on its head. Joined by a choir of stacked vocal harmonies, Marika’s voice transcends to conjure a deep emotional resonance.


Adventurous and versatile, Covers continues Marika’s lineage in turning each body of work into a new take and perspective on her creative vision. She twists and turns, always surprises, and is never afraid to wear her heart on her sleeve. It remains anyone’s guess to imagine where she will head next.


Covers is now available through Sub Pop (the Americas), Marika Hackman’s official website, and Transgressive Records (ROW). The LP will be available as a limited edition Navy Blue/Purple colored vinyl.

Marika Hackman
Covers

Tracklisting:
1. You Never Wash Up After Yourself (Radiohead)
2. Phantom Limb (The Shins)
3. Playground Love (Air)
4. Realiti (Grimes)
5. Jupiter 4 (Sharon Van Etten)
6. Pink Light (Muna)
7. Between The Bars (Elliott Smith)
8. Temporary Loan (Edith Frost)
9. In Undertow (Alvvays)
10. All Night (Beyonce)


Posted by Rachel White