✨ IC Community Weekly #17

ft. new releases from Chris Farren, Teenage Fanclub, Layng Martine Jr., Namian Sidibé, and Paper Bee, a dog-centric Death Valley Girls video, Music Biz' Speed Quiz, tour dates, industry events & more!

Hey and welcome to the IC Community Weekly!

In the week where goth-punk icon Siouxsie Sioux returned to the stage for the first time in a decade 🖤 and indie distributor CD Baby announced it will cease distributing physical products next month 😔, as usual, IC catalogs and creators released lots of great music.

Scroll down to for that, plus meet the newest IC catalogs, new signings, upcoming gigs, industry events, and more!

- Adam & the Infinite Catalog crew

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NEW IC CATALOGS

A very warm 🤝 to:

TaylaMade, Inc, a company housing the many ventures of Grammy-nominated songwriter, singer, actress and businesswoman Tayla Parx who, in 2019, was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for penning the Ariana Grande smash Thank U, Next, the Panic at the Disco! song High Hopes and four tracks on the Janelle Monae album Dirty Computer.

Orgone Music Inc, administering the catalog of Orgone, a 20+ years deep LA-based band whose sound draws from 60s and 70s-era funk and soul!

NEW RELEASES

🎧 🖥 Polyvinyl announced the new Chris Farren record, Doom Singer, produced by label-mate Melina Duterte (Jay Som). Pre-order it here + watch the very funny music video for new single from it, Cosmic Leash, below:

🎧 Merge announced a new Teenage Fanclub album Nothing Lasts Forever, out September 22nd. Pre-order it and check out new single Foreign Land:

🎧 Kill Rock Stars in collaboration with Bloodshot Records released the Layng Martine Jr. record Music Man. Layng is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and has written songs for, amongst many others, Elvis, The Pointer Sisters, Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Order or stream it here

🎧 Sahel Sounds released the self-titled new record by Namian Sidibé. Showcasing another side of modern Malian praise songs, Namian is from a rising generation of young Malian divas leveraging social media and has built a following publishing videos and dedications in song, accompanied by her cousin Jules Diabaté on acoustic guitar. Check out the record, full of “epic generational songs and poetry, brought into the Tik Tok age”, over on Bandcamp

🎧 Get Better released Thaw, Freeze, Thaw, the new record by Philadelphia band Paper Bee, which includes members of All Dogs and Radiator Hospital. The band crafted the record with producer Kyle Gilbride (Swearin’, Waxahatchee) while all living together as housemates through the COVID-19 quarantine. Check this “story about queer love, heartbreak, and belonging” out now here

+ They also announced the new 7", Pottery Class from British artist Lande Hekt of Exeter indie-punk trio Muncie Girls (who’s currently supporting The Beths on tour). It’s out June 9th and you can pre-order it here

🖥 Suicide Squeeze shared a dog-centric video for the track Say It Too by Death Valley Girls. They said about the video: "Our band text group chat is called “Animal Welcoming Committee” every dog we meet, in every city we visit, we want to make  feel like a famous superhero! Almost like we are moonlighting as musicians, but really we are on tour to love dogs. Last summer Rikki covertly filmed every dog interaction (around 150!) we had on tour in Europe, and secretly made it into a video for Bonnie’s birthday!!  We are so excited to share with you the heroes we met in June 2022!"

🎧 Arrowhawk announced Spacious Minds a new EP release from Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders on cassette/digital, which comes out June 16th. Check out the first single from it, Sequoia Seed Escape Pod, on Spotify:

🖥 Cassandra Jenkins released a new music video for Hailey, from her 2021 album An Overview on Phenomenal Nature:

🎧 Weird Sister announced that the new Madge track Notss is out next week (on June 1st) and you can pre-save it here

NEW SIGNINGS

✍️ Double Double Whammy announced they’ve signed singer-songwriter Allegra Krieger. Her album I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane is out July 21st but you can check out her new music video for Nothing In This World Ever Stays Still now:

✍️ Kill Rock Stars Nashville welcomed Desert Mambas, the nom-de-plume of Foxx Bodies guitarist Bailey Moses, to their family and shared the new video for their single Buzz Cut Blues, “a tender ode to dealing with the absurdity of transphobia in public”:

SHOWS, TOURS + EVENTS

🤷 The folks at FFWD Music conference have tamed up with Karousel Music for Music Biz Speed Quiz, which takes place next Thursday (June 1st) at Phoenix Arts Club in London! | TICKETS

🎤 NTS is hosting a one day festival in London this weekend in South London’s Burgess Park | TICKETS

🎤 Etran de L'Aïr (Sahel Sounds) are touring the US this summer | TICKETS

🚌 Chris Farren (Polyvinyl) is touring the US this September + October after some shows in the UK. With “wild projected visuals and the guarantee of a perfect set” be sure not to miss out and grab tickets now | TICKETS

🚌 Jeff Rosenstock (Polyvinyl) is touring the US later this year | TICKETS

📆 UPCOMING INDUSTRY EVENTS

+ check out the newly public 🎟 Events Directory for more conferences, festivals, record fairs, webinars, etc!

May 27th - 28th ‣ Your City Festival (Stoke-On-Trent, UK)

May 29th - June 4th ‣ Primavera Sound (Barcelona, Spain)

June 5th - 10th ‣ Canadian Music Week (Toronto, Canada)

June 5th - 11th ‣ Primavera Sound (Madrid, Spain)

June 11th - 13th ‣ Copyright Society Annual Meeting (Newport, RI, US)

June 12th - 15th ‣ A2IM IndieWeek (New York, US)*

June 13th - 17th ‣ NXNE (Toronto, Canada)

June 14th ‣ NMPA Annual Meeting (New York, US)

June 15th ‣ Libera Awards (New York, US)*

*we’ll be there // If you will be too, give us a shout

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