Sub Pop Silver Jubilee

 

Sub Pop will take over Georgetown this Saturday, July 13, from 10 am till 1 am with four stages and over 20 bands, to celebrate it's 25th Anniversary year. And it's all FREE (the music parts, at least). The music is all-ages, too, except for the Hardly Art Slideshow, which is 21+. They've got some great local bands, and some well-respected big acts, too. Here's the lineup. The bands we're excited for are bolded.

	Sub Stage S Homer St.	Pop Stage S Vale St.	Elysian Stage S Lucile St. Overpass	The Mix: The Hardly Art Slideshow
1:00 PM			David Buhler
1:30	Shearwater
2:00			The Tom Price Desert Classic
2:30	King Tuff
3:00		clipping.	Jack Endino’s Earthworm
3:45	Pissed Jeans
4:00			Brothers of the Sonic Cloth
4:10		The Baptist Generals
5:00	METZ		The Catheters
5:20		Shabazz Palaces
6:00	J Mascis
6:15			Chad VanGaalen
6:30		Greg Dulli
7:15	Mudhoney
7:30			TBA
7:45		Father John Misty
8:30	Built to Spill
9:30				Hausu
10:30				Protomartyr
11:30				Deep Time
12:30 AM				TBA

Be sure to get yourself over to the Hardly Art Slideshow (at The Mix, 6006 12th Avenue South) in the evening, because it'll be awesome, and probably really busy. Remember our previous post about Hausu? I'm curious who Sub Pop has in store for us in those TBA slots. There are a lot of great old guys from bands that reach back to the '80s (Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs, J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., etc.). Speaking of J Mascis, he was ranked 86th in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, and I've also read he's kind of a nut, so his set is probably worth watching, too.

But wait, there's more! You know, I think Sub Pop just wants to see how far they can push the envelope, and good on them, because it means a lot of great entertainment for all of us. On Friday, July 12, at 7 pm they're doing their Silver Jubil-eve, a "25th Anniversary Comedy-Thing (For Charity!)" at The Moore. Tickets are $25 and the lineup includes Marc Maron, Jon Benjamin, Kristen Schaal, Kurt Braunohler, and more, hosted by Eugene Mirman. Check it out if comedy is your thing!

Also, the Sub Pop Mega Mart store has opened at 6003 12th Ave S. This pop-up record store will remain open until July 21. They're selling rare and out-of-print vinyl, merch from the label's catalog, plus there's an art exhibit featuring materials from the label's history (think label ads, sketches and artwork, all from Sub Pop). While you're bouncing from stage to stage on Saturday, drop by the Mega Mart and check it out!

SWL# 28: Hausu, "Vasari Joust"

  

Hausu is a phenomenal new post-hardcore band from Portland, OR and I’m not kidding when I say I’ve been waiting for weeks to write about them--ever since I got my early copy of Total after their show at Black Lodge on the 6th. The record is staggering in scope—assimilating the melodic introspection of the late 80’s D.C. post-hardcore scene (e.g. Rites of Spring, Fugazi) with the biting urgency of west-coast emotive hardcore (see Gravity Records) and patches of highly proficient math and indie-rock style arrangements. However, now that the record has been officially released and posted to BC by the folks at Bridgetown Records, I can finally tell you about my favorite song: “Vasari Joust”. Like all of the songs that I pick for these posts, I think that this track is a perfect picture of the group at large—not an easy thing to find in a record whose title is a nod to the sum of different stylistic contributions of “four people in a band following four different paths to their singular vision”. Indeed, even “Vasari Joust” itself alternates between dissonant breakdowns filled with post-punk influenced bass work and a blistering hardcore chorus, but ultimately these somewhat disparate influences coalesce to create a highly textured sound that just oozes vitality. Highly recommended. You can get the Total cassette from Bridgetown and the LP/CD from Hardly Art.  They don't have any Seattle dates on their schedule at the moment, but if we all get really excited maybe we can change that. Update 6/30: "Vasari Joust" is no longer available on BC...I would guess at Hardly Arts request...sigh. Enjoy "Leaning Mess" instead.