Seattle label Sub Pop, home to the Postal Service, Low (as of their as-yet-unreleased album), Wolf Eyes, the Shins, Damien Jurado, Iron and Wine, and other great bands with impeccable indie cred, has gone RSS, offering RSS 1.0 feeds for the following content:
- All downloads (including music, videos, and other goodies)
- All news
- Tour dates for all bands
- Localized tour dates (I'm currently subscribed to the Massachusetts feed, there are others available on the main RSS page)
- Individual band feeds
This is a brilliant and as far as I know unprecedented move—I don’t know of any other label that is doing this in a consistent way like this. Bravo, Sub Pop.
Except… because the downloads/media feed is RSS 1.0 and not 2.0, it doesn’t appear to work with iPodder. This is unfortunate; I’d love to subscribe to that feed in iPodder and have all the latest Sub Pop releases automatically hit my iPod. Also, the tour dates feeds include dates that are way past (2003?) for some bands and feature links that go nowhere on the Sub Pop main site. Ah well, hopefully this will be cleaned up soon. Until then, this is a pretty good way to keep on top of what’s happening across the label or with your favorite band.
(originally posted on Jarrett House North)
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
great job Tim - thanks for putting it in context for me