America\u2019s legendary Sub Pop record label will curate a stage at OFF Festival 2014.<\/p>\n
Press Release:<\/p>\n
Artists signed to America\u2019s legendary Sub Pop record label are frequent guests of the OFF Festival, but this time we\u2019re taking things one step further! Sub Pop will be taking over the Experimental Stage for an entire day, serving up a lineup that features Wolf Eyes, Clipping, Rose Windows, and more!<\/p>\n
Sub Pop has changed the history of music on at least one occasion. In the late 80s Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman decided to launch their own label to promote music that was similar to the bands on SST and Touch and Go, but more listener-friendly. Sad and dirty, but catchy. The Seattle-based label took inexperienced rookies and their bands under its wing: Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney\u2026 Despite the enormous commercial success of grunge rock, the label never lost its indie cred, and has instead become a trendsetter over the last two decades. Though Sub Pop started out as a rock label, it\u2019s made a name for itself outside the guitar world, fostering the careers of such greats as The Postal Service, Fleet Foxes, and Shabazz Palaces; according to several influential music review sites, the experimental hip-hop on Black Up was the best thing to happen to music in 2011. And so we\u2019re proud to announce that Sub Pop will be one of the curators of the Experimental Stage at this year\u2019s OFF Festival. The lineup selected by the label will perform in Katowice on August 1.<\/p>\n
Artists performing include: Wolf Eyes (Detroit, MI), Rose Windows (Seattle, WA), clipping. (Los Angeles, CA), Lyla Foy (London, UK), Protomartyr (Detroit, MI), Kaseciarz (Krakow, PL) and Wild Books (Warszawa, PL).<\/p>\n
Please find additional information about each of the performers below\u2026<\/p>\n
Wolf Eyes
\n\u201cChoking Flys\u201d (From No Answer \u2013 Lower Floors \/ Destijl)<\/p>\n
Some say Rock N Roll will never reach the same primitive raw vein hit of Bo Diddley at his more subhuman lurch, or that no unit could ever scramble the marbles left of what brain-boiling suburban electronic punk outsiders did in the mid-\u201970s: Whatever you think, there is no denying the homemade nuclear war Wolf Eyes has declared on music. Wolf Eyes was birthed in the shadows of late-\u201990s Michigan. However, Wolf Eyes has grown beyond a band into a collective mutant ensemble, an art abstraction unit: musicians, print makers, photographers and more, all sharing a primal vision of decoding the wilderness of the humanoid soul using their deep audio arsenals.<\/p>\n
clipping.
\n\u201cWork Work\u201d feat. Cocc Pistol Cree (From CLPPNG \/ Sub Pop)<\/p>\n
Before the release of clipping.\u2019s debut, 2013\u2019s Midcity, the trio of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson did not expect to find an audience for their abrasive brand of rap music. But since the formation of clipping. and the release of their debut album, the field of commercial music enlarged ever so slightly, making room again for noisier, more adventurous elements in electronic production. Examples of this have been incremental, mere baby steps, so far. And despite clipping.\u2019s insistence that they\u2019re really just making rap\u2014 not noise-rap, industrial-rap, or any other mashup genre\u2014 their music might be more sonically challenging than that of the punkish rap rockers, lo-fi bedroom producers, and street goth hybridist\u2019s they\u2019ve been lumped with so far. The band will release their Sub Pop debut, CLPPNG, this June.<\/p>\n
Lyla Foy
\n\u201cFeather Tongue\u201d (From Mirrors the Sky \/ Sub Pop)<\/p>\n
Lyla Foy (formerly known as WALL) released Mirrors the Sky, her Sub Pop debut in March. The London singer and producer specializes in intimate vocals effortlessly intertwined with delicate, emotive instrumentation. The production is an integral part of her writing process, capturing not only the intended notes but also the incidental and accidental sounds that bring the recordings to life and provide endless intrigue. While the patter of keyboards, guitars and pulsing bass lines create a beguiling backdrop, it\u2019s Foy\u2019s sense of melody and turn of phrase that takes centre stage. Subtle nods to classic refrains, mingled with her own inflection, suggest a writer who draws from many different eras, resulting in a sound that is both timeless yet modern.<\/p>\n
Protomartyr
\n\u201cScum Rise\u201d (from Under Color of Official Right \/ Hardly Art)<\/p>\n
Protomartyr\u2019s taut, austere rock was incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed, feebly, by space heaters. Despite the cold, Protomartyr emerged with a sound that is idiosyncratic but relatable, hooky but off-kilter. Protomartyr\u2019s economical rock elicits comparisons to possible antecedents like Pere Ubu or The Fall as well as local contemporaries like Frustrations or Tyvek (whose frontman Kevin Boyer played bass in an early iteration of Protomartyr). Singer Joe Casey\u2019s dry declarative snarl serves as a reliable anchor, granting his bandmates \u2014 guitarist Greg Ahee, drummer Alex Leonard and bassist Scott Davidson \u2014 the opportunity to explore textures and reinforce the rhythm section. This is never more apparent than on the band\u2019s sophomore LP and Hardly Art debut, Under Color of Official Right.<\/p>\n
Rose Windows
\n\u201cHeavenly Days\u201d (From The Sun Dogs \/ Sub Pop)<\/p>\n
Rose Windows began in late 2010 in Seattle. On their debut album, The Sun Dogs, the band incorporates elements of The Band, The Doors\u2019 organ-driven psychedelia, and Black Sabbath\u2019s dirges, along with Persian, Indian, and Eastern European music.\u00a0 Rose Windows have toured the West Coast several times, fluidly sharing the stage with underground art-metal bands one night and popular indie Americana acts the next. The Sun Dogs was recorded and produced by Randall Dunn (SunnO))), Boris, Earth) at Avast! in Seattle.<\/p>\n
Wild Books
\n\u201cOranges & Lemons\u201d (from Wild Books \/ Instant Classic)<\/p>\n
Who said you could only play rootsy, dirty, sunburned rock in Texas or Tennessee? The duo Wild Books proves that you set out from a Polish garage to follow in the footsteps of Jack White and The Black Keys. Wild Books\u2019 self-titled 2014 debut record showcases retro-rock in its whole ass-kicking glory.<\/p>\n
Kaseciarz
\n\u201cDance\u201d (from Mot\u00f6rcycle Rock and Roll \/ Instant Classic)<\/p>\n
Three years ago, this guy proved you could be a surfer in southern Poland. This year he\u2019s back withMot\u00f6rcycle Rock and Roll, a mix of psychedelia, garage, and surf, or as he likes to call it, \u201cgarbage rock.\u201d Fortunately the sound quality is inversely proportional to its aesthetic value. Maciej Nowacki\u2019s music will blow your socks off, even though he himself admits that the only reason he got into music in the first place was to prove he was in the arts at parties.<\/p>\n
About Sub Pop Records:
\nSub Pop Records, founded in 1998 by Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt, is the Seattle indie-rock label that gave birth to grunge in the late 80s. Sub Pop launched and defined an era that rocked the music world from the 80s through today by signing such acts as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, and the Afghan Whigs.\u00a0 Sub Pop\u2019s catalog also includes recordings by the Reverend Horton Heat, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sebadoh, L7, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Saint Etienne, Pigeonhed, Supersuckers, the Dwarves, Combustible Edison, Mark Lanegan, the Vaselines, Red House Painters, the Murder City Devils, The Postal Service, the Shins, Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, Father John Misty, Beach House, Shabazz Palaces, and many others<\/p>\n
Watch some of the best bits from 2013…<\/p>\n
Tickets:
\nThree-Day OFF Festival Passes are now available at the OFF Shop. These passes are valid for all shows at Three Pond Valley. The price of the pass is a low 180 PLN \/ 42 EUR! Hurry up: the price goes up in March.<\/p>\n
Important information:<\/p>\n
1. This year, the price of the pass does not include a camping spot. You can buy a separate camping spot for 60 PLN \/ 14 EUR (this lets you stay at the campsite from Friday, August 1, to Monday, August 4). If you buy a three-day camping spot and want to come to Katowice a bit early, you can purchase an extra night (Thursday\/Friday) for 25 PLN \/ 6 EUR per person.<\/p>\n
2. As always, we\u2019re planning a Before Party in downtown Katowice on Thursday, July 31, but the event will be slightly different this year. To enter, you need to buy a separate ticket. A detailed schedule for Thursday night will be announced shortly.<\/p>\n