Sub Pop Get Ready For Record Store Day

Sub Pop Records have put together a whole raft of releases (seven in all!) to help entice people into record stores for Record Store Day to enjoy the many pleasures offered there. Each destined for future collector's item status, the Sub Pop Record Store Day 2010 series of releases is sure to appeal to the minor OCD tendencies of every true music enthusiast.

Originally conceived in 2007 as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally, the first Record Store Day took place on April 19, 2008. Now celebrated the third Saturday every April, it's the one day each year that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists and labels to celebrate the art of music. To find a participating store, go to: http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venues.

FOR: RECORD STORE DAY 2010
FROM: SUB POP, WITH LOVE

Beach House "Zebra" 12" (sp877)

The "Zebra" 12" features 2 new tracks ("The Arrangement" and "Baby") and 2 alternate takes on songs from the popular 2010 Teen Dream album (a UK radio edit of "Zebra" and the Cough Syrup remix of "10 Mile Stereo"). Available now: Beach House's Teen Dream SP845, CD+DVD/2xLP+DVD.

Side One:

1. Zebra (UK Radio Edit)
2. The Arrangement

Side Two:

1. Baby
2. 10 Mile Stereo (Cough Syrup Remix)

The Album Leaf "There Is a Wind" 12" (sp878)

The "There Is a Wind" 12" features 2 new tracks ("Landing in Snow" and "Resonations") and 2 alternate takes on songs from the popular 2010 A Chorus of Storytellers album (an acoustic version of "There Is a Wind" and the Jamuel Saxon sunburnt remix of "Falling from the Sun"). Also available now: The Album Leaf's A Chorus of Storytellers SP805, CD/2xLP.

Side One:

1. There Is a Wind (acoustic)
2. Landing in Snow

Side Two:

1. Resonations
2. Falling from the Sun (Jamuel Saxon sunburnt remix)

Dum Dum Girls/ Male Bonding 7" (sp876)

Two brand-new and exclusive tracks for Record Store Day 2010, one each from LA's Dum Dum Girls and London's Male Bonding. Both bands have debut albums out this spring on Sub Pop. Also available now: Dum Dum Girls' I Will Be SP840, CD/LP. Available May 11th: Male Bonding's Nothing Hurts SP854, CD/LP

• Side A: Dum Dum Girls "Pay for Me"
• Side AA: Male Bonding "Before It's Gone"

Happy Birthday 7" (sp874)

Two brand-new and exclusive tracks for Record Store Day 2010 from Kyle "King Tuff" Thomas' Happy Birthday. Both of these tracks, like those of Happy Birthday's self-titled March 2010 debut album, were recorded and mixed at Kyle's home studio. Available March 16th: Happy Birthday's Happy Birthday SP850 CD/LP.

• Side A: "Shampoo"
• Side B: "Alien"

Soundgarden "Hunted Down" 7" Reissue (sp12a)

This reissue of a Sub Pop classic was arranged specially for Record Store Day. "Hunted Down" was released in June 1987 as the band's first single and was later available on Screaming Life. This single is pressed on translucent orange vinyl. The original, now a Soundgarden collector's item, was pressed on blue vinyl.

• Side A: "Hunted Down"
• Side B: "Nothing to Say"

CocoRosie "Lemonade" 7" (sp884)

The A-side to this limited-edition single is an edit of one of the stand-out tracks from the new CocoRosie album Grey Oceans and the B-side is the band's cover of the Beach Boys' classic "Surfer Girl." Grey Oceans, CocoRosie's Sub Pop debut (and fourth full-length album overall) will be released on May 11, 2010. Artwork.
Watch a "Smokey Taboo "trailer from Grey Oceans.

• Side A: "Lemonade"
• Side B: "Surfer Girl"

SP20: Casual Nostalgia Fest CD (sp879)

We at Sub Pop Records celebrated our 20th anniversary in 2008 with, among other things, a 2-day music festival July 12th and 13th at Marymoor Park, somewhat unimaginatively called SP20. We've collected here some of our favorite performances from the SP20 festival. Sub Pop will be donating all of the profits from the sale of this CD to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Artwork.

1. Green River: "Leech"
2. Wolf Parade: "Fine Young Cannibals"
3. The Vaselines: "Dying for It"
4. Obits: "Run"
5. Les Thugs: "Dirty White Race"
6. Eric's Trip: "Smother"
7. Beachwood Sparks: "You Take the Gold"
8. Blitzen Trapper: "Furr"
9. Flight of the Conchords: "Carol Brown"
10. Iron & Wine: "Woman King"
11. Constantines: "Why I Didn't Like August ‘93"
12. Seaweed "Baggage"
13. Grand Archives: "Dig That Crazy Grave"
14. Low: "Silver Rider"
15. The Helio Sequence: "Lately"
16. Kinski: "The Wives of Artie Shaw"
17. Pissed Jeans: "Caught Licking Leather"
18. Mudhoney: "The Open Mind"
19. Comets on Fire: "Dogwood Rust"

In-Store Performances

• Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba at Waterloo Records in Austin
• Male Bonding & Dum Dum Girls at Origami Records in Los Angeles
• No Age at Sweat Records in Miami

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