While Shearwater may have traveled two-thousand miles to be at the Sub Pop Silver Jubilee, the Texans seemed right at home in Seattle. KEXP went backstage at the Jubilee to capture Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg deliver not only his work with Shearwater and Blue Water White Death but a song by a band that put Sub Pop and Seattle on the map. Watch Jonathan enthusiastically perform (complete with "special" vocal effects) his original songs as well as Nirvana's "Negative Creep" then bring it back to Texas with "Fucked Up Life," a cover of fellow Sub Pop band The Baptist Generals.
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Apart from their various shows around the U.S. and Europe, we haven't heard much from Texan lo-fi indie rock band The Baptist Generals since their debut Sub Pop album, No Silver/No Gold ten years ago, but the band is back with the highly anticipated Jackleg Devotional to the Heart. The Baptist Gene…
In addition to the wealth of artists imported into Seattle to work with the city's legendary label, Sub Pop Records highlighted the best of the Northwest's seemingly endless talent, from Mudhoney to Rose Windows, during their Silver Jubilee. Before Seattle's The Moondoggies ended the night with the…