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 Sub Pop 20, still mean something to at least one of our staffers.
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The Month In: Techno
This month, the Kompakt Total 9 party and more at C/O Pop, plus a whole mess of great records and remixes, from Hot Chip, Todd Terje, DJ Koze, Joakim, and even José González.
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Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Pitchfork.tv takes a detailed look at one of the greatest albums ever recorded, including interviews with Chuck D, Hank and Keith Shocklee of the Bomb Squad, El-P, and Prefuse 73.
Interview: Silver Jews
In a lengthy interview, we talk to David Berman about everything from the subjects that populate Silver Jews songs to topics such as Teddy Roosevelt, Diane Keaton, taking over the world via Coca-Cola, and the meaninglessness of Radiohead.
Column: Silent Party #4
Girl Talk's self-made iconography maps out a very different artistic terrain, one in which performance personalities are inseparable from market ideologies, production and distribution concerns are spoken of more often than artistic ones, and the differing valences attached to music genres come into sharper relief.
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Interview: Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman
To kick off a five-part celebration of Sub Pop's 20th anniversary-- and the concert/party the Seattle label is throwing itself this weekend-- we spoke to the men who founded the classic indie imprint, Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman.
Interview: Spiritualized
Songs in A&E, Jason Pierce's sixth studio album as Spiritualized, is a full-volume, ultra-dynamic return to glory-- and here he talks at length about it.
Interview: Why?
We spoke to Why?'s Yoni Wolf and he wondered out loud about his sound, the origin of his words, and whether or not making music is making it more difficult to forget the past.
Interviews
Interview: Justice
The French duo on Daft Punk, the nature of hype, why they no longer do remixes, painting John Travolta, and being MySpace friends with the Jonas Brothers.
Interview: Orchestra Baobab
We caught up with Orchestra Baobab's Barthélemy Attisso-- two albums into his band's richly deserved comeback-- to talk about his early days in Dakar as he entered the music scene and helped create the distinctive Baobab sound.
Interview: King Khan & the Shrines
The magisterial King Khan mouths off on the Canadian welfare system, Little Richard, Germany, racism, black metal, having sex with cheese-- pretty much everything except his latest release, The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines, a Vice Records compilation that collects tracks from obscure singles and mostly European-only releases.
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