Sub Pop 20th Anniversary is July 12 and 13
It’s best described by a term we regularly drop here at NWMB:
Class A Face-melting, Stomach-churning, Palm-sweating, Loin-tingling Two Day Music Candystore Assault That’s Not Bumbershoot or Sasquatch.
July 12 and 13 at Marymoor Park
Are you seated? Heart meds within reach? Then look here:
Beachwood Sparks / Comets on Fire / Fleet Foxes / Flight of the Conchords / The Fluid / Foals / Grand Archives / Green River / The Helio Sequence / Iron & Wine / Kinski / Low / Mudhoney / No Age / Pissed Jeans / Red Red Meat / The Ruby Suns / Seaweed / Wolf Parade, and more to be announced.
In unabashedly conspicuous celebration of 20 years of not going out of business (sometimes only barely), Seattle’s Sub Pop Records will gather past and present label-mates for a series of events, including a two-day festival at Marymoor Park on July 12 & 13 and a comedy show on July 11 at Seattle’s Moore Theatre. Proceeds from the sale of tickets will go to support beneficiaries of each participating act’s choosing. Tickets go on sale April 26 at 12 PM Pacific at SubPop.com and all Ticketmaster locations.
Be still, my beating heart.
Also, as part of the Sub Pop celebration, The Gutter Twins, Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers) and Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, QOTSA), will be playing at the Showbox on Saturday July 12th.
And the goddamn VASELINES will also be reuniting to play SP20 on Saturday; their first US show EVER!
The real question is: “is anyone gonna be able to talk Matt Lukin out of hiding in the North Cascades to play the Mudhoney set?” Or are we going to get the second-decade iteration of the band.
I won’t complain either way. While I consider their post-Lukin recorded catalogue to be entirely irrelevant, Guy Maddison has proven to be an admirable replacement for their live shows.
I need a ticket for the July 12 show – they are sold out. Anybody have one or know where I can get one?
Thanks!