✨ IC Community Weekly #26
✨ IC Community Weekly #26
ft. IC passing 200 customers, new music from Locate S,1, Eliza McLamb and Katie Von Schleicher, an Ian Sweet video, Nonclassical's artist in residence program, tour dates, industry events & more!
Hey and welcome to a new edition of IC Community Weekly!
In the week where Twitter/X tried to raise money by selling vinyl and AI tried to kill us, you, as usual, released lots of great music.
Keep scrolling for that, but first, some general community news…
There are now over 200 active catalogs on IC! Thank you so much to all the folks who helped us get here, lots of whom will be on this email. We’re so grateful for you putting your trust in us and are excited to keep improving for you ❤️
We’ve had so many amazing applications for our Catalogs Team role and will be closing this out today and interviewing in the coming weeks. Thanks for taking the time to apply or share the post - we look forward to introducing you to our new hire(s) in the not-too-distant future!
Topshelf was awarded Label of the Month by Redeye 🏅
There are three days left to apply for the Nonclassical AiR (Artist in Residence) program, which is seeking to find four UK-based composers who will each be given professional coaching and mentoring. Applications are open until 10AM BST on Monday 14 August
NEW RELEASES
🎧 Captured Tracks released Wicked Jaw, the new record by Locate S,1 (aka Athens, Georgia-based songwriter Christina Schneider). It’s “sonically, a jubilant summer album and thematically a deep dive into darkness”, a record that spans genres “from doowop to cold wave, disco to soft rock” as it takes the listener on a deeply personal exploration of her trauma. Stream/buy it here
🎧 Royal Mountain released Mythologize Me the new track by Carrboro, North Carolina based singer-songwriter Eliza McLamb (who also co-hosts the excellent Binchtopia podcast). Check out the track, produced by illuminati hotties, here
🎧 Sipsman released the new Katie Von Schleicher track Montagnard People, which you can check out here (or watch the lyric video here)
🎧 Joyful Noise released This is Just a Mountain Song, the new track by “psychedelic banjo” specialists Tall Tall Trees, the musical pseudonym of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Savino and drummer Josiah Wolf of revered Anticon band WHY? Check it out here
🎧 Asi Suena Productions released Rockerita, the new single by Isaac Montijo today, which you can check out here. Isaac is an artist of Yoreme descent and has the distinction of speaking, singing and composing in the Mayo language of his ancestors, who are an indigenous group in Mexico
🎧 Earth Libraries released the Mad Anthony LP The Lost Tapes today, which was originally recorded in 1976. The release came about when Ben Schwab (Drugdealer/Sylvie) found the lost tapes of his father's 1970s group Mad Anthony and for several years tried to convince him to release them. The elder Schwab relented and along with his bandmates decided it was time to release the early recordings in to the world. Stream or buy them here
PRE-ORDERS
🎧 Polyvinyl announced that Sucker, the new album by Ian Sweet (the stage name of Jilian Medford) is out November 2nd and available to pre order. They’ve released the first single from it, Your Spit, which you can check out the video for here
🎧 Suicide Squeeze celebrates Chastity Belt with the latest in its split 7" single series – a pair of covers by Friends of the Band and tourmates Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, who each recorded a song from the band's third album, 2017's I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone, in their signature styles. Stream Courtney’s Different Now here. Kurt's version of This Time of Night will be available to stream soon, with a one-time vinyl pressing limited to 1500 copies (250 pink, 250 black, 1000 blue) incoming and available to pre-order here
NEW SIGNINGS
✍️ Spartan welcome Milliseconds to their family. The band features Eric Axelson (The Dismemberment Plan / Maritime), Joe Easley (The Dismemberment Plan), and Leigh Thompson (The Vehicle Birth) and their debut album So This Is How It Happens will be released on October 13th. Hear their first single Time and Distance via Streogum here
VIDEOS
🖥 Nicolette, the Enny Owl (Weird Sister) track we mentioned last week now has a music video:
SHOWS, TOURS + EVENTS
🎤 Big Joanie (Kill Rock Stars) are playing Black & Loud Music Fest next month in Seattle 🆓
🎤 Pedro the Lion (Polyvinyl) are playing with The Postal Service and Death Cab For Cutie at their Santa Barbara Bowl event on October 14th | TICKETS
🚌 Screaming Females (Don Giovanni) are going on tour this fall | TICKETS
🚌 Rodeo Boys (Don Giovanni) are supporting The Menzingers (Epitaph) on tour this November/December | TICKETS
🎛️ Ransom Note are taking over The Social in London tonight with musicians and selectors including Jay Duncan, who’s released music on the likes of Erol Alkan’s label Phantasy and Midland's emerging artists label Intergraded, as well as babyschön, Rosie Ama, Ally Tropical and Matt Cowell | TICKETS
📆 UPCOMING INDUSTRY EVENTS
+ check out the newly public 🎟 Events Directory for more conferences, festivals, record fairs, webinars, etc!
Aug 7th - 10th ‣ DJX (DJ Expo) (Atlantic City, NJ, US)
Aug 8th - 10th ‣ Record Store Day Summer Camp (New Orleans, LA, USA)
Aug 10th - 14th ‣ WE OUT HERE (Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire, UK)
Aug 11th - 13th ‣ Telluride Jazz Festival (Telluride, Colorado, US)
Aug 11th - 13th ‣ Outside Lands Festival (San Francisco, CA, US)
Aug 12th - 13th ‣ Day In Day Out (Seattle, WA, US)
Aug 12th - 13th ‣ Osheaga (Montreal, QC, Canada)
Aug17th - 20th ‣ Green Man Festival (Crickhowell, Wales, UK)
Aug 24th - 26th ‣ Cutting Edge Music Biz Conference (New Orleans, LA, US)
Aug 25th - 27th ‣Reading and Leeds Festivals (Reading, Leeds, UK)
Aug 27th - Sept 4th ‣ Burning Man Festival (Black Rock City, Nevada, US)
Aug 30th - Sept 3rd ‣Pop-Kultur (Berlin, Germany)
Aug 31st - Sept 3rd - End of the Road Festival (Blandford, Dorset, UK)
Sept 1st - 3rd ‣Electric Zoo (New York City, NY, US)
Sept 1st - 4th ‣ Pax West (Seattle, WA, US)
Sept 5th - 7th ‣ Music Pro Summit (Online)
Sept 5th - 7th ‣Mastering The Music Business (Bucharest, Romania)
Sept 5th - 8th ‣ BigSound Music Conference (Brisbane, Australia)
Sept 7th ‣ The Mercury Prize (London, UK)
Sept 7th - 9th ‣ Waves (Vienna, Austria)
Sept 9th - 10th ‣ Lollapalooza Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
That’s all for this one! Stay safe and we’ll catch you next week for more.
- Adam & the Infinite Catalog crew
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