The sound of Seattle was shaped in part by a record label founded in 1988 called Sub Pop. Thirty years ago, that label was just a fanzine in Olympia called Subterranean Pop. The founder ...

SEATTLE — Some highlights of a Friday-morning walking tour of Sub Pop’s spacious third-floor office in downtown Seattle: A “wood record” award for the Shins, commemorating sales of 100,000 ...

Get live updates now on our Festival Blog! Sub Pop is more than just a record label. It’s an attitude, a way of life, a symbol of Seattle like Microsoft and Starbucks. America’s greatest indie ...

Sometimes the best plan is not having one. This bodes well for Sub Pop Records co-founder Jonathan Poneman, who for 30 years has helped steer the company through an increasingly unpredictable ...

1988: Sub Pop Records LLC is officially formed by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman. 1989: Nirvana’s debut album, Bleach, is released, a benchmark “grunge” album that helped popularize the genre. It’s ...

The Seattle grunge scene may have faded, Nirvana may be no more, but the Emerald City's famed record label, Sub Pop, still lives on. June 20, 2008, 8:41 PM EDT Venerable indie label Sub Pop has ...

As mentioned, beloved Seattle label Sub Pop is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and part of their anniversary celebration includes — wait for it — an airplane! The label partnered ...

Fans dance during Clipping's set at Sup Pop Records' 30th anniversary party at Alki Beach, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018. The free event included four stages with Sub Pop signed bands playing throughout ...

Click here to subscribe. The Grunge Dictionary: In the prank that started it all, Jasper, then working for Sub Pop distributor Caroline Records, took the opportunity to pull the leg of an inquiring ...

As promised, we cap our five-feature celebration of Sub Pop's first 20 years with a look at some records and artifacts from the label's history that, while they didn't make the cut in last week's ...

Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Hole, L7, pre-Pearl Jam group Green River: All had records released on the legendary Seattle label Sub Pop in the late ’80s and early ’90s. And in the process ...