✨ IC Community Updates! Feb 10th 2023
ft. new Father/Daughter signing Pickle Darling, fresh music from Ultra Q, Screaming Females' annual Garden Party Festival, an award nomination for GRADUATION*, plus upcoming shows, tours & more
Fresh off our big announcement, welcome to another IC community update!
If you’re an IC catalog/creator and have any news you’d like featured, just reply to this email and let us know <3
NEW IC CATALOGS
Up first, we’re stoked to call out some new folks who joined the IC community recently:
Strangers Candy is an indie label, established in 2011 and based out of Dalarna, Sweden, with a roster that includes Francis, Grapell, Many Voices Speak, Humfree Bug Art, Daniel Westin Quartet and Bengtsarvet. Check out their Bandcamp or Spotify to take a listen. Krow Music Entertainment, is a music distributor and services company based in Mexico and Music Embassies Distribution, is the distribution arm of music support organisation The Worldwide Music Embassies.
NEW RELEASES
Here’s a selection of what you’ve been announcing and putting out over the last couple of weeks:
🎧 Sahel Sounds announced Tounga, the debut by one of the key figures in Gao Rap, Babsy Konate. The mixtape gathers “…a decade of tracks that merge sweet autotuned vocals, crunchy drum loops, and plucked digital harpsichord, in a playful testament to 2000s PC music, with the sample packs of a modest FruityLoops project” and is available to order here. Or, get a preview below:
🎧 Royal Mountain band Ultra Q, fronted by Jakob Armstrong, the youngest son of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, announced their debut album My Guardian Angel, out 9th June. Listen to the new single from it, VR Sex, below:
🎧 Don Giovanni Records just released the new album from R. Ring titled War Poems, We Rested, which is available to stream / order now here.
🎧 Kill Rock Stars released the new Brian Dunne single Bad Luck, and announced their forthcoming album Loser On The Ropes, as well as putting out the new single from Mya Byrne called Lend You A Hand:
🎧 Lights and Lines put out the Rebel Tramp EP, Intra Dimensional Fantasies, as well as releasing pre-orders for albums by Shaun Panda Nicolson, Gozer Goodspeed and Mikey J
🎧 Fire Talk released an expanded version of the latest album Fairy Rust by Louisville Kentucky based trio Wombo
🎧 Suicide Squeeze band Death Valley Girls shared the third single from forthcoming album Islands In The Sky. It’s called Magic Powers and you can listen below:
🎧 Raw Tapes released the debut solo album of Daniel Dors, called Four Petals, which you can order here
🎧 Joyful Noise shared the new song by experimental Montreal-based rock trio SUUNS. Listen to Wave below:
🎧 nonclassical announced new release Tintinnabulation from musician and sculptor Marcus Vergette, out March 9th. “Centring the music around hand-sculpted bells which sound with the rising sea levels, Vergette collages sounds from the bells with field recordings and instrumental improvisations to form a collection of dark and dramatic soundscapes.”
You can pre-order it here and the release will be launched with a live performance at their climate-themed event the greenhouse event on March 12th
NEW SIGNINGS
Father/Daughter welcomed Pickle Darling, otherwise known as Lukas Mayo - a Aotearoa/New Zealand bedroom pop composer and multi-instrumentalist who’s also been busy working on the music for ShelfLife, ‘…a story-driven video game about a non-binary art student who begins to experience flashes into a parallel dimension after becoming injured on their daily commute’.
Listen to their first single on the label, King of Joy, below:
AWARDS
🙏 GRADUATION* has been nominated for 'Best Label' at Young Music Boss Awards 2023! Voting is now open and you can vote for them here
SHOWS, TOURS + EVENTS
📅 Velocity Press is holding a launch party at The Social in London on March 9th where you'll be able to buy the vinyl compilation that accompanies the book Who Say Reload for reduced prices. Full details will be on their socials soon.
🎤 Around the February 17th release of their album Desire Pathway, Screaming Females (Don Giovanni) will host their annual Garden Party Festival at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City NJ the weekend of February 17th and 18th, with a lineup including Armand Hammer, Laura Stevenson, Catbite, Nina Nastasia, Gel, Paisley Fields, Sug Daniels, Truth Cult and more. Tickets for the two day festival, including limited discounted two-day passes, are available now here.
🚌 Sooper co-founder NNAMDÏ announced a massive US tour, which starts next week in New York. Tickets here
🚌 Godcaster (Ramp Local) are heading out on a US tour, with additional February shows just added. Tickets here
🚌 Death Valley Girls (Suicide Squeeze) announced upcoming US and Europe dates, starting February 4th in LA. Tickets
Feb 4 - Gold Diggers - Los Angeles, CA
Feb 12 - NL - Den Haag - Grauzone Fest
Feb 14 - NL - Utrecht - Db’s
Feb 15 - FR - Amiens - La Lune des Pirates (nuit de l'alligator)
Feb 16 - FR - Angers - Le Chabada (nuit de l'alligator)
Feb 17 - FR - Vannes - L’Echonova (nuit de l'alligator)
Feb 18 - FR - Paris - La Maroquinerie (nuit de l'alligator)
Feb 20 - BE - Brussels - Botanique (Witloof Bar)
Feb 22 - CH - Dudingen - Bad Bonn
Feb 23 - FR - Annecy - Hors Pistes Fest
Feb 25 - DE - Berlin - Berghain Kantine
Feb 28 - UK - London - Moth Club
Mar 1 - UK - Nottingham - Bodega
Mar 2 - UK - Newcastle - The Cluny
Mar 3 - UK - Manchester - Projekts Skatepark
Mar 4 - FR - Lille - L’Aéronef
Mar 7 - FR - Nimes - Paloma
Mar 9 - FR - Macon - Le Matilda
Mar 10 - FR - Bordeaux - Bordeaux Rock (festival)
Mar 11 - FR - St Malo - La Route du Rock Hiver (festival)
Mar 14 - The Quarry - Bisbee, AZ
Mar 15-17 - SXSW - Austin, TX
Mar 18 - Beer City Music Hall - Oklahoma City, OK
Mar 20 - Lost Lake - Denver, CO
Mar 21 - Quarters - Salt Lake City, UT
Mar 23 - Treefort Music Festival - Boise, ID
Mar 24 - The Loving Cup - Reno, NV
Mar 25 - Eli's Mile High Club - Oakland, CA
Mar 31 - Whistle Stop - San Diego, CA
Apr 1 - Pappy & Harriets - Pioneertown, CA
🚌 Kolb (Ramp Local) is doing a mini North American Tour, dates below:
Mar 11 - ATTNEVERYBODY - Kingston, NY
Mar 12 - Casa Del Popolo - Montreal, QC
Mar 14 - Bishop’s Lounge - Northampton, MA
Mar 16 - seCret loCation - Brooklyn, NY
🚌 Will Johnson (Keeled Scales) is embarking on an Undertow Living Room Tour next month that will take him through the Midwest and down the East Coast from March 22nd through April 9th. Tickets here
Mar 22 - St Louis, MO
Mar 23 - Chicago, IL
Mar 24 - Detroit, MI
Mar 25 - Cleveland, OH
Mar 26 - Pittsburgh, PA
Mar 27 - Buffalo, NY
Mar 29 - Syracuse, NY
Mar 30 - Boston, MA
Mar 31 - Weehawken, NJ
Apr 1 - Philadelphia, PA
Apr 2 - Baltimore, MD
Apr 4 - Washington, DC
Apr 6 - Athens, GA
Apr 7 - Atlanta, GA
Apr 8 - Waverly, AL
Apr 9 - New Orleans, LA