Bruce Pavitt
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Bruce Pavitt is the Chicago-born founder of record label Sub Pop.
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Pavitt started a fanzine entitled Subterranean Pop in Olympia, Washington in 1979, about American independent rock bands. A total of three cassette compilations were released through the fanzine. In 1986 Pavitt moved to Seattle and released Sub Pop's (the "-terranean" was dropped earlier from the name) first LP: the Sub Pop 100. Green River's Dry As a Bone EP followed in 1987.
At a mattress store, Pavitt met Jonathan Poneman that year and the pair agreed to join forces. Subsequently Soundgarden's Screaming Life EP was released and the grunge phenomenon quickly followed.
There is some speculation is to whether it was Bruce Pavitt or Johnathan Poneman who cornered the term "grunge", as grunge music was the type of music Sub Pop was known to produce. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana later said in a 1993 interview that it was indeed Poneman, though it is still unknown who for sure started the term. Some speculate that Mark Arm invented the term, who has ties to Sub Pop through the various grunge bands he was in that were on the label, such as Mudhoney.
Pavitt eventually left Sub Pop (around 1996) to spend more time with his family (he is married and has two children).
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- [1] Interview
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