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Finally, the official announcement of Sub Pop’s 20th Anniversary party.

The legendary label, which helped launch the careers of bands like Soundgarden and Nirvana, will celebrate it’s 20 years with a two day concert at Seattle’s Marymoor Park on July 12 and 13.

Performing at the show will be a reunited Green River, which was the band that Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard where in before Mother Love Bone, as well as, Mark Arm and Steve Turner, who went on to Mudhoney.

Also on the bill will be: Red Red Meat, the Fluid, Beachwood Sparks, Seaweed, Fleet Foxes, Flight of the Conchords, Foals, Grand Archives, the Helio Sequence, Iron & Wine, Kinski, Low, Mudhoney, No Age, Wolf Parade, Pissed Jeans and the Ruby Suns.

Tickets will go on sale April 26.

This is what the Green River reunion meant for Jeff Ament in an interview with Billboard:

“There’s been a few emails exchanged and a few jokes about how we’ll get our hair that big and long again. We might all have to go in for weaves. If we got together and wrote a couple of songs and put out a single, that’d be more important to me than playing a show; just getting in a room together.”

Very, very cool.

If you’re able to go, then have a blast, it should be a good time.

Have a listen to Green River – “Swallow My Pride”

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