Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt. In 1988, Sub Pop Records LLC was formed by Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for ...

Man, it's heart-warming to see young people flock to a club to cheer for a young buzz band on Sub Pop, just like regularly used to happen in the good ol' pre-pandemic days. Such was the case last ...

Sub Pop's latest video collection is a testament to the label's continually amazing and diverse roster. Once known only as the birthing house for grunge, it's expanded to include peaking pop (The ...

The pride of Boise, Idaho, Built To Spill are one of the most beloved and time-tested acts in indie rock. Now the band, led by venerable frontman Doug Martsch, have signed to Seattle’s storied Sub Pop ...

Chicago band Deeper have signed to Sub Pop, and they’ve just released their first single for the label.”Sub” is straight-ahead indie rock, with pops of punk and new wave in its guitar and drums. The ...

Fucked Up have been insanely prolific lately, having released three albums in less than two years, most recently including November’s guest-filled Someday, and they just keep going. Toady, they’ve ...

Back in 2020, the Chicago band Deeper released their sophomore album, Auto-Pain, and we talked to them about it at the time. Today, they’re back with their first new single since then, “Sub,” which is ...

The seminal record label that brought us a slew of greats since the late ’80s, from spearheading Seattle‘s grunge movement to aiding indie rock’s steady growth into adulthood, Sub Pop is celebrating ...

Jonathan Poneman, who gave Nirvana and Fleet Foxes their start at Sub Pop, revealed the philosophy that conquered the world of music from an unlikely place as he accepted the award. By Tim Appelo ...

(Editor’s note: Total F*king Godhead, author Corbin Reiff’s outstanding new biography on Chris Cornell is out tomorrow. Ahead of its release, we’re sharing a blurb on how Soundgarden‘s 1985 concert in ...

Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman were two rock-and-roll fans who met at exactly the right time and place: Seattle in the early 1980s, where a raw hybrid of metal and punk was finding its voice in ...