2009 is here and we’re starting off the year real slow like, so there are no new records on which to report this month. There’s nothing like looking backward to see how you’re moving forward (?!), so let’s take a walk down Sub Pop employee memory lane via facebook. Thanks for uploading these unwanted embarrassing photos, friends of my coworkers! Keep ‘em coming and I’ll keep sharing! The first person to correctly identify all of these awkward teenagers will receive…

DICK LAING, SALES.
“Ten Appealing Songs”
Antony and the Johnsons – Another World
Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Which Way To Go
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
Grouper – Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Sleeping
Juana Molina – Un Dia
Obits – One Cross Apiece
No Age – Sleeper Hold
NOMO - Rings
Portishead – Machine Gun

CHRIS JACOBS, BOSS.
David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colours
Thomas Function – Celebration
Constantines – Kensington Heights
Obits – “One Cross Apiece” b/w “Put It…

Hey there e-shopper! We’ve had a busy year here at the Sub Pop International Headquarters of America and are taking a holiday-style break starting Monday the 22nd of December.

Please, do not fear. We will still be taking online orders at this time for your various Sub Pop needs and desires, but we won’t be shipping them until after the New Year. We are going to take this time to get some much needed R&R before regrouping and totally doing…

Hey! Good news! Our old friends The Murder City Devils are doing a string of west coast dates in February!

Those guys also just recently put together a fancy new website: themurdercitydevils.com. And, we’ll be reissuing all of The Murder City Devils’ full-lengths (plus Thelema) on vinyl in February, to coincide with the tour.

The Feb. dates are all up in the tour section of the Sub Pop site now!

The full press release on the tour can be found here

See you…