Posted on 04/17/2008 10:41:12 AM PDT by weegee
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Sub Pop Records, the indie label that gave the world Nirvana, will celebrate its 20th birthday with a weekend of concerts in a Seattle park in July.
Among the groups reuniting or breaking long hiatuses for the July 12-13 event at Marymoor Park are Green River, Red Red Meat, the Fluid, Beachwood Sparks and Seaweed.
Current label acts confirmed to appear include Mudhoney, comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, Fleet Foxes, Foals, Grand Archives, the Helio Sequence, Iron & Wine, Kinski, Low, No Age, Wolf Parade, Pissed Jeans and the Ruby Suns.
Additional bands will be added to the bill, tickets for which go on sale April 26. As an adjunct to the music, a comedy night will be held July 11 at the Moore Theatre, featuring Patton Oswalt, Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry and other guests.
For Jeff Ament, who played in Green River with Stone Gossard before they left to form Mother Love Bone and then Pearl Jam, the show will be a chance to dig back into his shared history with Mark Arm and Steve Turner, who went on to form Mudhoney.
"There's been a few emails exchanged and a few jokes about how we'll get our hair that big and long again," he told Billboard.com. "We might all have to go in for weaves. If we got together and wrote a couple of songs and put out a single, that'd be more important to me than playing a show; just getting in a room together."
Rock and Roll PING!
Oh, so they're to blame.
If they could only get the mighty Tad to reuinte, I might fly to Seattle!
one of the best rock bands in history....
As a former ink-stained wretch at “The Rocket,” this takes me back! Thanks for the post!
Too bad the A-Frames aren’t on the list. Awesome stuff by those guys.
For bringing hard rock/punk rock back into the mainstream a bit? Hell yeah. Let's hear it for Soundgarden and Screaming Trees, too.
And then the lid was put on independent music again for awhile while the industry focused on pre-fab boy bands and hip hop.
And they wonder why the industry is in shambles today.
They killed it.
What, no U-Men?
Good times!
At least The Fluid are back. They could have been Nirvana.
Wouldn’t mind seeing Beat Happening, Seven Year Bitch, Love Battery, or even the Thrown Ups or Cat Butt.
You mean one of the most overrated rock bands in history.
They were touring together that year IIRC, RRM broke from the tour and Nirvana joined up, because I saw them in Cincinnati with Smashing Pumpkins, although they more or less had joint billing for the concert, but Liz Phair opened for them.
good times indeed.
“load up your guns bring your friends its fun to lose and to pretend”
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