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BREAKING: Mayor Durkan proclaims Saturday, August 11 Sub Pop Day

In honor of the Seattle record label’s 30th anniversary, tomorrow will forever be known as Sup Pop Day

Dan Ray August 10, 2018
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BREAKING: Mayor Durkan proclaims Saturday, August 11 Sub Pop Day August 10, 2018

Raised by a single mother in the suburbs of Detroit, Dan discovered an early passion for singing, songwriting, and the arts as a whole. She got her BA in English and music at the University of Michigan, where she reported for the school’s paper, The Michigan Daily. She worked as a Senior News Reporter on the government beat, transitioned to arts writing, and eventually became the managing editor of the social media department. She moved to Seattle in 2017. After losing her job during the COVID-19 pandemic and discouraged about the lack of press surrounding Seattle’s music scene, Dan made the decision to turn Dan’s Tunes, a fully fledged music journalism website focused on showcasing the Seattle area’s musicians, into its own startup. There’s so much music happening in the city that spawned Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Jimi Hendrix — among others — and Dan’s Tunes is determined to find and expose those outstanding acts. The goal is to have satellites in every major US city, uplifting diverse and compelling voices and helping music communities thrive. In 2020, Dan was featured in the Seattle Times’s year-end music critic poll. Other than her musical endeavors (singing, playing ukulele, and auditioning for American Idol four times before the age of 24) Ray is passionate about food and education around the American food system, and she’s also a large proponent of eliminating the stigma around mental health. Ray loves cats, especially her own, who is named Macaulay Culkin (but she’s a lady).

Photo courtesy of Sub Pop

Tomorrow, Saturday, August 11, 2018, Sup Pop will be hosting a free festival on Alki Beach in West Seattle, dubbed SPF30, in celebration of the record label’s 30th anniversary. The celebration kicks off tonight at the Moore Theatre with a ticketed comedy show from the cast of Bob’s Burgers, but tomorrow, from noon to 10 p.m., Sub Pop is hosting a variety of bands at the free festival, from Mudhoney to METZ to Father John Misty.

Around noon today, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issued a proclamation that forever marks tomorrow as Sub Pop Day.

In a press release, Sub Pop intoned, ”we’ve been campaigning the Mayor’s office tirelessly for the past 30 years for a Sub Pop Day to take place any or every day, with little to no perceptible results. We’re all together elated, and not a little surprised, that Mayor Durkan has finally made this dream a reality on our anniversary.”

The proclamation notes Sub Pop’s influence in launching many of the grunge bands that came out of Seattle in the 90s, such as Nirvana and Soundgarden, and that the record label has engaged with many local nonprofits to steep SPF30 even more so in Seattle culture.

But, we can’t forget Sub Pop’s trademark off-the-cuff humor: “Subpop has a long history of challenging the cultural mainstream in irreverent and often hilarious ways, like in 1992 when CEO Megan Jasper tricked the New York Times into publishing ‘The Lexicon of Grunge,’ a list of nonsense words on the premises that they were critical to the grunge subculture,” the proclamation reads.

Read the full text of the proclamation below.

 

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Raised by a single mother in the suburbs of Detroit, Dan discovered an early passion for singing, songwriting, and the arts as a whole. She got her BA in English and music at the University of Michigan, where she reported for the school’s paper, The Michigan Daily. She worked as a Senior News Reporter on the government beat, transitioned to arts writing, and eventually became the managing editor of the social media department. She moved to Seattle in 2017. After losing her job during the COVID-19 pandemic and discouraged about the lack of press surrounding Seattle’s music scene, Dan made the decision to turn Dan’s Tunes, a fully fledged music journalism website focused on showcasing the Seattle area’s musicians, into its own startup. There’s so much music happening in the city that spawned Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Jimi Hendrix — among others — and Dan’s Tunes is determined to find and expose those outstanding acts. The goal is to have satellites in every major US city, uplifting diverse and compelling voices and helping music communities thrive. In 2020, Dan was featured in the Seattle Times’s year-end music critic poll. Other than her musical endeavors (singing, playing ukulele, and auditioning for American Idol four times before the age of 24) Ray is passionate about food and education around the American food system, and she’s also a large proponent of eliminating the stigma around mental health. Ray loves cats, especially her own, who is named Macaulay Culkin (but she’s a lady).