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that we realise that these wily dogs continue to confound, contuse and explore – a sub-two minute Bowie malaise over a quickfire drumbeat, underlining why bands like Muse seem ... Lewis takes the vocal reins for Re-Invent Your Second Wheel , a good little pop song; and while Stealth Of A Stork and Eels Sang riff off old times, Change

amid their throng. This is, after all, the same band that was signed to Sub Pop throughout the entire grunge explosion of the early '90s and who got to witness ... went on tour we were always playing the alternative/punk venues. “So in the Sub Pop years, one of the reasons they signed us was because we were already playing

Today we flash back on another of our favourite labels: SUB POP RECORDS . They're responsible for the careers of a diverse range of bands, from Nirvana ... affiliations with the label. Following a less than amicable split,  Pavitt left  Sub Pop in the mid-'90s. This gave  Poneman the opportunity to change the direction

Gino in whitey wifebeater and gold chain, the dismay of his by-the-book pops) forming an unlikely alliance, unaware of the sins of their fathers, but still carrying them ... becomes-surreally-wonderful camp), a revisionist Western whose sub-von-Trier American-history-on-Danish-backlot seemed like a symbolic revenge-fantasy played out on the US movie industry ( Dear

Sub Versus sees Akron/Family performing as pop musicians doing their best no wave interpretation. It's a record full of disparate tones and textures and challenges you in the same

Status and Sub Focus, establishing themselves as credible newcomers with Space Time / Take The Stairs . The Radio 1 faves have since enjoyed a cult pop video with Get By . They

latest album finds her trying to split the difference between electronica and classic pop songwriting. She had a chat to us about how one makes a comeback like this work ... Courts  – Light Up Gold (Create/Control) Wire – Change Becomes Us (Popfrenzy) Still Corners – Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop/Inertia) Dungeonesse – Dungeonesse (Secretly Canadian/Inertia

entire discography, each record is distinct, lived-in, its own beast. Seventh long-player Sub Verses is no different, and the changes are evident before a note is played ... incessant drum ramble introducing Sand Talk gives way to an Animal Collective mirroring psych pop explosion, a reminder that the two bands came forth from similar musical aesthetics before taking

follow-up King Tuff in 2012, which came out on the inimitable Sub Pop label. Yet Thomas doesn't use the name as a smokescreen that separates him from

real ambition, then found it all change when they signed to legendary indie label Sub Pop. “There was such a change that occurred in the life of that band ... doing it totally for fun, as almost this social thing. Then we signed with Sub Pop, and started touring a lot, and things got a bit more complicated,” remembers Thomas

their recorded versions for much of the set. While they lose some of their pop intensity in translation, the emotions become clearer, more of a dominant focus. It's interesting ... Tracks seem to run up against the limits of the sound-system quite often: sub-bass thrums, crackles, and fades; high guitar lines feel lost in the cavernous venue. When