Key facts
- Parent company
- Warner Music Group (49%)
- Founded
- 1986 ( 1986 )
- Founder
- Bruce Pavitt , Jonathan Poneman
- Status
- Active
- Distributors
- ADA (US), Outside Music (Canada), Merlin Network (digital)
- Genre
- Various; primarily alternative rock punk rock indie pop hip hop comedy
- Country of origin
- United States
- Location
- Seattle , Washington
- Official website
- www .subpop .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Sub Pop is an independent record label founded in 1986 in Seattle by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman. Sub Pop achieved fame in the early 1990s for signing Seattle bands such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney, central players in the grunge movement. They are often credited with helping popularize grunge music. The label's roster includes Fleet Foxes, Tad, Beach House, The Postal Service, Sleater-Kinney, Flight of the Conchords, Foals, Blitzen Trapper, Father John Misty, clipping., Shabazz Palaces, Weyes Blood, Guerilla Toss, Bully, La Luz, Low, METZ, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Kiwi Jr., Built to Spill, Sunn O))), TV Priest and The Shins. In 1995, the owners of Sub Pop sold a 49% stake of the label to the Warner Music Group.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sub Pop” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.