• Pillow Queens Sign to Sub Pop

    February 10, 2021 - By 

    Pillow Queens have signed a publishing deal with legendary Seattle label Sub Pop. The Dublin indie-rock quartet, who released their debut album, In Waiting, last year, announced the news via social media. “Very excited to announce that we’ve just signed a deal with Sub Pop Publishing,” they said. “We’re over the moon that our album is getting recognition we couldn’t have even dreamed of when we decided to self release during a pandemic but we’re really feeling the love.” Sub Pop initially rose to prominence in the late 1980s via acts such as Nirvana, Mudhoney and Soundgarden. Since then, the…

  • Goat – Requiem

    October 12, 2016 - By 

    Goat are one of the most unusual bands around at the minute. Based in Gothenburg, the band’s core trio have built up a shadowy mystique with their knack for storytelling – they claim to hail from the remote village of Korpilombolo in northern Sweden, which allegedly has a centuries old history of voodoo practice, and is still haunted by a curse placed on it by inhabitants fleeing the attack of Christian crusaders – all of which fits quite neatly with their stage show’s involvement of elaborate costumes and tribal masks. Other claims include the idea that Goat is an ongoing multi-generational communal entity that…

  • Clipping – Splendor & Misery

    September 13, 2016 - By 

    For those who don’t know Clipping, they are an LA based trio who single-handedly make up the most prominent hip-hop and avant-garde contingent of legendary label Sub Pop. Since their critically received label debut CLPPNG the group have become a reckonable leftfield force, creating music that is challenging, beguiling and academic all at once. While their last EP Wriggle may have been little more than loose tracks after the release of their LP it continued, musically and verbally, to chronicle humanity’s burnt suburban landscape where society is little more than its bodily functions and lust for cheap thrills and short term gains. On the surface Splendor…

  • Stream: No Age – ‘C’mon Stimmung’

    June 13, 2013 - By 

    Taken from their new album – set for release via Sub Pop on August 19 – Los Angeles noise duo No Age are streaming a new track, titled ‘C’mon Stimmung’. Set to feature as the third track on An Object – the follow-up to 2010’s impressive Everything In Between – the song is a brief but characteristically exuberant burst of experimental punk from the two-piece. Listen to ‘C’mon Stummung’ via YouTube below.