Headquarters: Seattle, WA
Founded: 1980
Founded by: Bruce Pavott
Link: Sub Pop
Genre(s):
- Indie Rock
- Alternative
- Comedy
- Spoken Word
- Alt. Country
Active Roster
- A Frames
- Afghan Whigs
- Arlo
- Beachwood Sparks
- Beat Happening
- The Black Halos
- Chappaquiddick Skyline
- Billy Childish
- Chixdiggit
- The Constantines
- Cosmic Psychos
- David Cross
- Damon and Naomi
- Thornetta Davis
- Julie Doiron
- Heather Duby
- Dwarves
- Earth
- Steve Fisk
- godheadSilo
- The Hellacopters
- Hot Hot Heat
- Iron & Wine
- Damien Jurado
- Kinski
- Mark Lanegan
- Les Thugs
- Looper
- Love As Laughter
- Low
- The Makers
- Eric Matthews
- Eugene Mirman
- Pernice Brothers
- Pigeonhed
- Plexi
- Postal Service
- The Rapture
- Red Red Meat
- Scud Mountain Boys
- Seaweed
- The Shins
- Six Finger Satellite
- Sleater-Kinney
- Sunny Day Real Estate
- Ten Minute Warning
- Thee Headcoats
- Rosie Thomas
- Trembling Blue Stars
- Ugly Casanova
- Velocity Girl
- Vue
- The Walkabouts
- Wolf Eyes
- Wolf Parade
- The Yo-Yos
- Zen Guerrilla
- Zumpano
Inactive Roster
- The Catheters
- Combustible Edison
- The Fastbacks
- Jesus & Mary Chain
- L7
- Mudhoney
- The Murder City Devils
- Nirvana
- Radio Birdman
- Sebadoh
- Red House Painters
- The Reverend Horton Heat
- Saint Etienne
- Soundgarden
- Supersnazz
- Supersuckers
- Tad
- The Flaming Lips
Key Releases
- Fastbacks - Zücker
- Nirvana - Bleach
- Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
- Sebadoh - Bubble and Scrape
- Soundgarden - Fopp
- Supersuckers -- Must've Been High
Biography
Started in 1980 as a fanzine, it beccame a real label in 1986, and became the center of the early 1990s Grunge movement. Is relatively reknowned for putting out good records, or at least at the time many people would buy anything that came out on Sub Pop just because it was on Sub Pop. They used this credibility to expand their repertoire to other genres and archival records (like the Radio Birdman disc they released, from an obscure Australian punk band).