✨ IC Community Weekly #13: RSD Edition

ft. RSD releases from Captured Tracks, Flying Nun and others, new music from ZORA, Ativin, RF Shannon, MAN ON MAN, Pickle Darling, COMMANDO, Stuck, Brevin Kim, Knifeplay tour dates + more

Hey and welcome to the IC Community Weekly, a special Record Store Day edition!

Soon enough people will be lining up outside indie record stores the world over, and many IC catalogs got on board with releases of their own, as well as dropping a bunch of excellent new music and videos as usual. Scroll on for all that plus tours, shows and more!

- Adam & the Infinite Catalog crew,

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NEW IC CATALOGS

A very warm 🤝 to Mexican Summer’s publishing division (Mexican Summer Music) and library music catalog (Sunset Songs), who just joined us. Mexican Summer is an indie label based out of Brooklyn, NY that focuses on “releasing the work of adventurous musicians without the limitations of genre or form”. Some of their current biggest names are Iceage, Connan Mockasin, Cate Le Bon and Jessica Pratt and their alumni include Washed Out, Best Coast, Kurt Vile and Weyes Blood.

RECORD STORE DAY

We know it’s quite a polarising institution but whether you think Record Store Day is “a retail initiative that saved vinyl from extinction” or a chance to stand in line “to get gouged on artificially scarce items… on Black Friday with inflated prices”, it’s an event that celebrates music, shopping at indie record stores and being part of a community, and we’re big fans of all those.

Here are some RSD23 releases from the community that are (probably) landing in your favourite indie record stores (stock permitting) this Saturday, April 22nd:

Kill Rock Stars is releasing the Ryan Cassata (pictured above) record Greatest Hits (So Far)

Captured Tracks are releasing RSD exclusive physical copies of the DIIV record Live At The Murmrr Theatre

Flying Nun announced a newly remastered (and first ever) vinyl reissue of the Cloudboy album, Down at the End of the Garden

Fire Talk band Deathcrash release their third album Less this weekend

ORG Music are releasing seven unique titles for RSD this year, covering everything from experimental noise to 70's funk. The titles are: Albert Ayler - Europe 1966, Vopli Vidopliassova - Tantsi, William Hooker - Shamballa, Willie Henderson and the Soul Explosions - Funky Chicken, The Happy Dragon-Band - s/t, Larry Mullins + Mike Watt - TV Eye & Sun Records Curated by Record Store Day Vol. 10: A Decade in Love

Refresh Records will be releasing three records in celebration including a special release of the Goings record Red / Colorblind / Blue, which will be available on vinyl for the first time this Saturday at noon and also features the band's 2019 self titled EP on the b-side

+ Joyful Noise project manager and A&R Jessica R. Clark is celebrating RSD by… opening a record store. It’s called Everything Nice and has a soft opening this Saturday, so head to Ellenville, NY if you’re in the area for “new & used records, Italian espresso, books, magazines & more!”

NEW RELEASES

🎧 Get Better Records released new track The Bitch is Back by ZORA ft. Destiny Spike:

🎧 Joyful Noise are releasing the new album by post-rock band Ativin, returning from a 19-year hiatus. The new record Austere, is “the group’s most expansive and cinematic work to date” and their first album on JN, after releasing earlier work on Secretly Canadian and Polyvinyl. It’s due out on 23rd June and you can pre-order various special editions here or check out new single Drought Shears:

🎧 Keeled Scales released the new RF Shannon track Heathen Nights, the lead single from forthcoming album, Red Swan in Palmetto. It’s due out May 26th, but you can pre-order here and listen to the single below:

🎧 Polyvinyl announced the release of Provincetown, the new album from MAN ON MAN, which comes out June 16th. It’s “a bold, fearless statement piece for today’s queer community” that you can pre-order here or check out new single Showgirls below:

🎧 Father/Daughter announced that Pickle Darling album Laundromat is out June 16th and you can pre-order it here / listen to new single Head Terrarium:

🎧 Kill Rock Stars released the new COMMANDO EP LUGGAGE N’ UMBRAGE: The Skeebo Sides EP, which you can listen to here

+ the new Your Heart Breaks single Snow Dusted Ponies featuring Christine Fellows and John K. Samson, which you can listen to below:

🎧🖥 Born Yesterday released a wild video for new single Time Out by Chicago post-punk quartet Stuck:

🎧🖥 No Matter just released the new album by brother duo Brevin Kim. Check it out in all the places here

They also released a stop-motion video for Chemical, the new track by Hamond, which he directed, shot, and edited himself:

SHOWS, TOURS + EVENTS

🚌 Becca Mancari (Captured Tracks) is supporting Joy Oladokun (Amigo Records) for a run of dates in September | TICKETS

🚌 Knifeplay (Topshelf) are heading out on a mini tour in the South at the end of next month inc. Dog Days Festival | TICKETS

🚌 Sun June (Keeled Scales) are touring the UK next month | TICKETS

🚌 Julia Jacklin (Polyvinyl) is touring North America this summer with support from Black Belt Eagle Scout (Saddle Creek), Macie Stewart (Full Time Hobby) or Kara Jackson (September) depending on the date, as well as playing a few festival shows | TICKETS

🚌 L.A. Witch (Suicide Squeeze) are heading out on a European tour next month, starting May 18th | TICKETS

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That’s all for this one! Stay safe and we’ll catch you next week for more.