ARGONAUT BOOKS

A critical history of independent Seattle rock label Sub Pop. Reviews Attfield analyzes the indie Sub Pop record label, which helped launch Northwest grunge music. He begins with Bruce Pavitt's 1980 Subterranean Pop fanzine and moves to the origins of the label with the compilations of the 1986 Sub Pop 100 and the 1988 Sub Pop 200. Viewing the label as both a brilliant marketing tool and a crass, misogynistic, and unabashedly commercial venture, the author chronicles the selling of Sub Pop's regional punk/metal by using the antihero, anti-corporate, tongue-in-cheek caricatur...Read More