Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Festival
Saturday, July 12 – Sunday, July 13, 2008, Noon -
Marymoor Park Amphitheatre, Redmond, WA
Venue . Seating . Map . Sub Pop Records . MySpace . Craigslist

Saturday: Flight of the Conchords / Iron & Wine / Mudhoney / Fleet Foxes / The Vaselines
Eric’s Trip / Seaweed / The Helio Sequence / Pissed Jeans / The Fluid / Low

Sunday: Green River / Wolf Parade / Grand Archives
The Ruby Suns / Kinski / Foals / Les Thugs / No Age / Red Red Meat / Comets on Fire / Beachwood Sparks

Local independent superlabel Sub Pop Records has been going out of business since 1988, and its year-long anniversary celebration is culminating with a two-day lineup of Sub Pop’s groundbreaking artists. As if that isn’t enough, all proceeds are being donated to charity. Nope, I don’t know why The Shins aren’t booked. Okay, read on..

“Sub Pop would not have been Sub Pop without Seattle,” Poneman says. “Seattle is an essential component to the story. Sub Pop is less geographical [now] – it has less of a regional focus. But Seattle is still home – I can complain about the irresponsible development going on downtown, I can complain about the traffic and real-estate prices, but it’s still my home. And I think I can speak for Sub Pop: The people living in Seattle have always been very supportive of Sub Pop.” — Seattle Times

Class A Face-melting, Stomach-churning, Palm-sweating, Loin-tingling Two Day Music Candystore Assault That’s Not Bumbershoot or Sasquatch. — Northwest Music Blog

20 years ago this month, Sub Pop Records’ Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman threw caution (and their dayjobs) to the wind and rented an office in Seattle’s Terminal Sales Building. Two decades on, that little Pacific Nortwestern upstart has become an indie juggernaut. — Pitchfork

See you there!