✨ IC Community Weekly #21
ft. new music from Desert Mambas, Montoya and Natasha Bai, a Velocity Press book release, a Fire Talk sale, tour dates, industry events & more!
Hey and welcome to a new edition of IC Community Weekly!
In the week where the craze for frenzied fans throwing things on stage at their favourite musicians reached a bizarre fever pitch when P!NK was handed someone’s mum’s ashes and Adele threatened to “f*cking kill” anyone that tried it at her shows (see this week’s Guardian article Choosing to throw a full wheel of brie at Pink is not a normal decision – but these are not normal times for more on this weird and worrying trend), you - as usual - released lots of great music. Keep scrolling for that as well as new signings, upcoming gigs, industry events, and more!
While we have you up here though, a couple of bits of news from us and the community:
Other Record Labels posed the questions Can a record label be digital only? and How should you price your records? in the latest episodes of their brilliant (and proudly IC-sponsored) podcast - listen/watch
Raw Tapes just launched their new website and online shop in celebration of their 15th Anniversary
Fire Talk are having a Scratch & Dent Sale where dinged up but still sealed and never played records are being offered at a steep discount. While supplies last choose from over 30 different titles for just $5 each. Check them out here
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NEW RELEASES
🎧 🖥 Kill Rock Stars released the new single Dry Heat by Desert Mambas, taken from their four song debut EP …But It’s a Dry Heat, which is out now. Check the EP out here and watch the video below:
🎧 Chapter Music released 1980s Bubblegum, a collection of the entire recorded output of Australian band The Particles, including digital bonus tracks from a 1983 live radio session on Sydney station Triple J. The record is out today on grape bubblegum vinyl, black vinyl and digital - order here
🎧 ZZK Records released El Nido (“The Nest”), the third album by Italy-based Colombian producer Montoya, a record that approaches love “as a yearning and a refuge, as a guide and an anchor, but also as a rhetorical figure that makes us vibrate and elevates us, while at the same time keeping us grounded and letting us settle in the place that we can use as our shelter.” Check it out here
🎧 Ransom Note released the new Natasha Bai record, Soldier of Love EP. It’s the follow up to her breakthrough on R$N, Transsib EP, and effortlessly weaves “a tapestry of emotions, coloured by her personal experience of Russia’s human rights violations.” Check it out here
PRE-ORDERS
🎧 Raw Tapes announced the second LP by Maya Dunietz, Thank You Tree, will be released this August! Pre-order it here and check out the first single from it Dear Major below:
🎧 Free Dirt Records announced Imaginary People, the new album from indie roots duo Viv & Riley, produced by Alex Bingham of Hiss Golden Messenger. It’s out September 15th and you can pre-order it and check out new single Kygers Hill:
🎧 Get Better Records announced pre-orders are open for a third vinyl pressing of the 2017 record Maggot by Dazey And The Scouts. Get yours
📕Velocity Press are publishing Egostrip Book 1, a collection of his illustrations of legendary artists from hip hop's golden era. In 2020 its author Dan Lish self-published it via a Kickstarter campaign and the books sold out quickly so Velocity Press have come on board to reissue it. The book features 138 illustrations of pioneering artists from hip hop’s golden era, such as De La Soul, Nas, Cypress Hill, MF DOOM, The Roots and The Beastie Boys. It’s not out until October but if you pre-order by 17 July you can get your name printed in the book.
NEW SIGNINGS
✍️ Kill Rock Stars announced they’d welcomed Trap Girl to their family and that their EP Diva’s Inferno comes out July 14th (pre-order)
✍️ Spartan welcomed Traindodge to their family, with new album The Alley Parade (their eighth LP) coming out September 22nd and available for pre-order
SHOWS, TOURS + EVENTS
🚌 Beach Fossils (Bayonet) are heading out on tour with Post Malone (Republic Records/UMG) this summer | TICKETS
🎤 📖 Iklectik is hosting their annual experimental records and book fair, Iklectika this weekend ft. nonclassical who are selling an exclusive early copy of Disruptive Frequencies | TICKETS
📖 Velocity Press have started a new Independent Prink Market in London, with the inaugural event taking place on Saturday 5 August at All My Friends in Hackney Wick. It runs from noon to 7pm and is free entry all day
🎤 Palehound (Polyvinyl) are playing Levitation in Austin, Texas in a few months and it has one of the best lineups for a festival we’ve seen all year | TICKETS
🚌 Mamalarkey (Fire Talk) are on their first European tour | TICKETS
🚌 Sea Moss (Ramp Local) are heading out on tour next week with Boston post-hardcore/noise rock band Rong | TICKETS
📆 UPCOMING INDUSTRY EVENTS
+ check out the newly public 🎟 Events Directory for more conferences, festivals, record fairs, webinars, etc!
July 6th - 8th ‣ NOS Alive (Oeiras, Portugal)
July 8th - 9th ‣ Iklectika 2023 (London, UK)
July 10th - 12th ‣ Fortune Brainstorm Tech (Park City, UT, USA)
July 14th - 16th ‣ Pitchfork Festival (Chicago, IL, US)
July 22nd ‣ Visions Festival (London, UK)
July 27th - 30th ‣ Calgary Folk Music Festival (Calgary, Canada)
July 27th - 30th ‣ Camp Bestival (Dorset, UK)
July 28th - 30th ‣ Newport Folk Festival (Newport, RI, US)
July 31st - August 3rd ‣ VenueConnect (Pittsburgh, PA, US)
August 3rd - 6th ‣ Lollapalooza Chicago (Chicago, IL, US)
August 4th - 6th ‣ Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, RI, US)
August 7th - 10th ‣ DJX (DJ Expo) (Atlantic City, NJ, US)
August 8th - 10th ‣ Record Store Day Summer Camp (New Orleans, LA, USA)
That’s all for this one! Stay safe and we’ll catch you next week for more.