SUB POP USA’s Bruce Pavitt: “I Was Literally Visualizing Washington State as an Island”

Bruce Pavitt in his natural environment—a record store (photo: Andy Bokanev)

In its 50th issue, HUCK Magazine has posted a vivid interview with Sub Pop Records Bruce Pavitt, author of EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: Grunge in Europe, 1989, and SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Reader, 1980-1988. Writer Casey Jarman goes exceptionally deep in examining the philosophical underpinnings behind Pavitt’s role exposing unheard regional music as a radio DJ, fanzine editor, newspaper columnist, record store...