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10 Quick Questions with Robynn “Cup” Iwata from cub

Long ago, I was a teenage punk. I did not have a ticket to the final Ramones show at The Warfield, and didn’t have any tricks yet for getting into a sold out show. My friends and I waited a bit, and eventually got a flyer that said “Free All Ages Punk Show at Trocadero Transfer: The Queers, cub, The Potatomen.” This was a key show for me. I bought a cub / Potatomen split 7″ and cub became one of my very favorite bands. The record they were touring was Come Out Come Out, which has become a twee punk classic. Mint Records has recently released a 30th anniversary remaster of this classic jam(buy it here), and we got to talk with Robynn “Cup” Iwata, the band’s guitarist as well as a member of Bay Area experimental legends I Am Spoonbender, and once part of the highly influential and legendary record store, Open Mind Music. 

1.) Things have been quiet with cub for a long time. What made you folks decide to get together for this reissue after all that time apart? Continue reading “10 Quick Questions with Robynn “Cup” Iwata from cub”

Vinyl Reissue Spotlight: “Come Out Come Out” by cub

The day was August 31st, 1995. A group of friends and I made our way to The Warfield in an attempt to catch the final SF Ramones concert. Sadly, the show was sold out. And not a scalper to be found… At least not a scalper our broke teenage wallets could work with. Outside the venue, someone was yelling, “Free Punk Show.” It was a Lookout Records showcase with The Queers, The Potatomen, and the band that blew my teenage mind clear off, a group of Canadian women that called themselves cub. I was transfixed. I used the little cash I had on me to buy their 7″ “The Day I Said Goodbye.” I wore it out. I went deep into the catalog. I sadly never got to see cub again. I missed them opening for They Might Be Giants, but was thrilled that They Might Be Giants covered “New York City.” 

I love this band. But I NEVER put on their first two records. Mostly because, um, they released them as 7″ collections instead of long players. This morning, I opened up my email and saw a press release that made me ever so happy… cub’s sophmore record, Come Out Come Out, has been remastered by original guitarist Robynn Iwata (who eventually moved to SF and starting the experimental band i am spoonbender and opened the legendary record store Open Mind Music), and is being pressed as a 12″ record! YOU ONLY HAVE TO FLIP IT ONCE! And she found a bunch of art from the period, and is going all out on a fancy, deluxe reissue from Mint Records. It’s coming out January 15th and can be preordered from cub’s Bandcamp page!