We love music. We love books about music. And we love parties with music, which makes this Saturday, November 29th kind of a dream come true. Celebrate the recent publication of Bruce Pavitt's SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology, 1980-1988, at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery with tunes spun by Beat Happening front man and K Records founder Calvin Johnson.
If SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology, 1980-1988 isn't at the top of your holiday wish list, it should be. The book chronicles the first eight years of Sub Pop, which started out as a fanzine, cassette compilation, and broadsheet column by Bruce Pavitt, with art by Charles Burns, Lynda Barry, and Charles Peterson, and brought national attention to bands such as Sonic Youth and Big Black. In addition to reprints of the actual fanzines and columns, the book includes forewords by numerous indie music notables, including Kurt Cobain biographer Charles Cross, Matador Record's Gerard Cosloy, and Fantagraphics curator and former Sub Pop contributor Larry Reid.
SUB POP USA started fiercely independent, a call to arms from Issue #1, and remains so to this day. There could be no more appropriate tribute to Small Business Saturday. Hit the launch party and pick up a copy of the new book. Saturday, November 29 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. More information here.
Attention shoppers: For a holiday gift that ticks the experiential and charitable boxes, pick up a Dancing on the Valentine X ticket for a friend or loved one – plus one for yourself, of course – and mark your calendars for Friday, February 13th at Neumos.
Want to learn more about music and technology? There's no better event than this week's CASH Music Seattle Summit! This Portland-based non-profit (whose acronym is formed from "Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders") began in 2008 as a way to better connect musicians and labels to the listeners by …
