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Welcome to arctic reviews, where our aim is simple – to publish intelligent, thought provoking record reviews of both new and classic album releases from the last 30 years.
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Sub Pop is 20
This year marks the twentieth of Sub Pop's existence; the label that effectively brought us grunge, it's become iconic and synonymous with Nirvana (Although it only released their sludgy debut Bleach, their failure of which to promote in Kurt Cobain's eyes prompted their defection to Geffen and well..you know the rest) but is now home to The Shins and Fleet Foxes amongst others. So let's raise our beenie hats to them - christ it's cold and wet up there - and salute an organisation which has broadly stayed true to itself.
RP
Date posted: Saturday, 05 Jul 2008 - 07:43 PM | Comments( 0 )