My city’s airport is way hipper than yours.

SeaTac  has an awesome new addition. The record label Sub Pop has opened up a shop in the airport, so swing on by Concourse C to check out some good tunes!

It is a really interesting installment to highlight Seattle’s music scene, demonstrating a local label that showcases incredible talent from all over, but quite a bit from this region. They have a wide variety of artists signed to Sub Pop as well as other artists representative of Seattle: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Macklemore, etc, from agreements with other record labels to showcase staple Seattle artists.

As far a music labels go, for an indie music junkie, good-god… you don’t get much better than Sub Pop. Just look at Sub Pop's current line-up, and their historical line-up. Unfortunately, not all of these are available at the shop. It mostly focuses on current Sub Pop artists and Seattle staples.

The shop has mostly Sub Pop merch: t-shirts and crap. But in the back of the store there is this beautiful little oasis of album art; shelves of records. It is my new favorite place in any airport. Its a nice place to drool over beautiful artwork and all the potential eargasms waiting on those nicely-lit shelves. I could spend a lot of time here.

  

It is also really cool because most of the artists on the Sub Pop label are far from ‘mainstream’, and this shop gives them broad exposure that they may not otherwise see. Random people passing through the airport, can check out some fantastic local indie bands.

The partnership between  Sea-Tac Airport, the Seattle Music Commission, and PlayNetwork also will include “overhead music in common areas, a program of live artist performances in the terminal, artist- recorded overhead announcements, and curated videos on terminal and baggage claim monitors.”

I think I most definitely miss my flight if one of my favorite indie bands is playing a free live set in the airport. I almost missed my recent flight just browsing the records!

However, the last thing I would want to do is tote a record on a plane...

10 years ago - the birth of Funeral

Arcade Fire's stellar debut album, Funeral, turned 10 years old on September 14, 2014.

So I just wanted to say happy birthday to a fucking incredible album. An album which basically turned me on to indie rock.  It is more responsible for my interest in indie rock than just about any album I can think of. An album that is deeply ingrained into my psyche and vital to my well-being.

I was lucky enough to have downloaded this album from a college friend, just after Pitchfork picked it up, and launched Arcade Fire into well-deserved stardom. 10 years later, I was privileged enough to attend their show on the Reflektor tour and thoroughly enjoyed the many sing-alongs that made the setlist from this masterpiece. (more on that show later).

If you haven't listened to this album in while, I recommend you do yourself a favor and give it a spin.

Scrobbling Data:
According to Last.fm I have scrobbled this album 272 times, (as of this post). My feeling is that number is a gross underestimate of how much I have listened to this album.