If you read one thing today (or if you just need to get that CocoRosie profile out of your head), make it the lengthy interview with Sub Pop founders Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman where the two look back on the label's first 20 years. It has dish on records that the two thought were underheralded (Zumpano's Going Through Changes, Eric's Trip's Love Tara), what effects the bidding wars that the alt-rock boom of the '90s had on the label, and other bits about the business of indie music. (If you want a pre-digsted version, Scott from Pretty Goes with Pretty is live-blogging his reading of it. Yes, it's that long.) [Pitchfork]
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5:45 PM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
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