Seattle's pioneering indie label Sub Pop is about to enter quarter-life crisis territory, and they're celebrating appropriately. They'll throw a big, free party called the Silver Jubilee on July 13 in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood, which will include "actual live bands, playing actual live music! Some sort of art-related something or other! Like, in a gallery space, we're thinking! A record-type event! Food! Beer and wine!" Details are still being sorted.
Sub Pop celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2008 in grand fashion with a blowout festival. Revisit our list of our favorite albums in the label's history, plus overlooked gems.
In advance of the party, on April 20, Sub Pop will release a Record Store Day compilation called Sub Pop 1000. Inspired by the 1986 compilation Sub Pop 100, it's an assortment of previously unheard songs from bands like Peaking Lights, Starred, My Disco, Iron Lung and more. That'll be available digitally and on limited-edition vinyl.
Sub Pop 1000:
Side A:
01 His Electro Blue Voice: "Kidult"
02 Chancha Via Circuito: "Lacandona"
03 Protomartyr: "French Poet"
04 Lori Goldston: "Tangled North"
05 Iron Lung: "A Victory for Polio"
Side B
06 Soldiers of Fortune: "Money"
07 Peaking Lights: "Subterranean Brainblow"
08 Ed Schrader’s Music Beat: "Radio Eyes"
09 My Disco: "Guided"
10 Starred: "Doomed"
Watch Mudhoney perform "In 'n' Out of Grace" at Sub Pop's 20th anniversary bash: