✨ IC Community Weekly: Bandcamp Friday Edition
ft. what's in the IC team's basket this Bandcamp Friday, new music by Tomato Flower, Bruiser and Bicycle, Cola, DJ Burrito Boy, Holy Wave, a Roxy Gordon reissue, Deerhoof on tour & much more!
Hey and welcome to another special edition of IC Community Weekly, featuring IC Staff picks for this hallowed Bandcamp Friday, as well as your latest releases, tours, shows and more.
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Adam & the Infinite Catalog Crew
BANDCAMP FRIDAY
It’s that glorious Friday, when Bandcamp waive their revenue share and everyone gets an (even better) opportunity to directly support the independent artists and labels they love. Go out and buy something already!
What we’re plunking down good money for this time around:
Austin has his eye on the self titled new record by De Leon on Mana Records:
As well as a pre-order of Wave Notation 3: Erik Satie 1984 by Satsuki Shibano on Swiss label WRWTFWW Records
Elene is planning to get a digital copy of Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music, a compilation of country-rock obscurities from Numero Group
Ari has his sights set on De La Friche by Flavien Berger on Pan European
Adam has the new Lucinda Chua record YIAN on 4AD in his basket:
… and Hunter gripped the most recent Work, Money, Death record Thought, Action, Reaction, Interaction, on the great ATA Records:
And what are the community doing to celebrate?
Nonclassical is doing an exclusive offer today - vinyl copies of both The Harmonic Canon + Tintinnabulation together for £30 and 10% off screenprints by multidisciplinary artist Quinta with the code mixtape10 (includes a digital download of Aeolian Mixtape)
NEW IC CATALOGS
A very warm welcome to:
🤝 Fertil Discos, a Buenos Aires based record label focusing on distributing and platforming emerging Latin American music.
🤝 San Juan Music Group, a music and DVD licensing company specializing in the licensing of primarily back catalog masters and new recordings of catalog artists.
🤝 Fortune Signal, a club-centric dance music label “with a sonic focus on diverse house-inspired sounds squarely aimed at the dancefloor”. It was born in 2022, is based in New York City and run by DJs, producers and promoters: D.D. Curry, K.Mal, DJ Fang and Quantreau.
🤝 Stutter In Words Music Publishing, a music publisher based out of Riverside, CA, and the performance rights publisher for indie folk band Amarante.
🤝 Afroludo, the parent company of label, booking agency, artist residency, club night & pan-African festival of the arts Nyege Nyege, Ugandan record label Hakuna Kulala and Athens, Greece based label Heat Crimes.
NEW RELEASES
🎧 Topshelf put out Holy Red Wagon, “an explosive, frenetic introduction to the progressive rock-skewed artpop” of recent signee Bruiser and Bicycle. For fans of The Fiery Furnaces, Animal Collective, Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, Alex G, check it out for yourself now
🎧 Ramp Local released the track Destroyer, an “an epic piece of hallucinatory art rock” by Baltimore band Tomato Flower, which you can listen to here and here:
🎧 Fire Talk released a new track by Cola, the Canadian band led by Tim Darcy alongside Ben Stidworthy & Evan Cartwright. The new single, Keys Down If You Stay, arrives ahead of their Spring tour, starting 19th April. Check it out here or here:
🎧 Fortune Signal released the lead single of their first EP of 2023 today. It’s Hot Pink Stinger Missile by DJ Burrito Boy from the upcoming album Doomsday Ravebot (out May 19th). Pre-order it and listen to the single here
🎧 Born Yesterday released a new song from glow in the dark flowers called YOUR HEAD’S A CATHEDRAL. Buy or listen on Bandcamp or stream:
🎧 Suicide Squeeze band Holy Wave shared their new single Cowprint:
🎧 Paradise of Bachelors released another Roxy Gordon song from the upcoming reissue of Crazy Horse Never Died. It’s called An Open Letter to Illegal Aliens and is an “acid retort to conservative white America’s hysteria about immigration”. Listen below or pre-order the album
🎧 Polyvinyl are releasing a new record by Generationals called Heatherhead on June 2nd, their first full-length in four years and one that “broke through it all”, managing to survive scrapped sessions and a thunderstorm knocking out the power to the grid. Pre order it here and hear latest single Dirt Diamond below:
🎧📖 Kill Rock Stars released the new Caleb Nichols EP & book Chan Says & Other Songs, a collection of “spoken word poetry and songs that explores Nichols’ identity as a non-binary person navigating spaces that range from childhood desire to present uncertainty, doubt, and dissociation.” Listen and buy the book/EP here
🎧🖥 Father Daughter released Bug, the title track from the forthcoming Annie Blackman EP of the same name. The EP comes comes out on April 28th but you can listen here in all the places to the single or watch the animated lyric video for it, hand drawn by Annie herself, below:
🎧 Raw Tapes released the debut album by Shir Frum, the newest member of their family. It’s called Party Pooper and you can check it out now on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal.
NEW SIGNINGS
✍️ Get Better Records signed Queen Of Swords, the Toronto based “magnetic mercurial healing-rock project” created by Aerin Fogel, who played in The Bitters with Ben Cook of Fucked Up and Young Guv. To celebrate this addition to their family, Aerin shared new single Waiting To Love, from her forthcoming sophomore album.
SHOWS, TOURS + EVENTS
🎤 Drugdealer (Mexican Summer) is playing a show tonight in Mexico City | TICKETS
🎤 Godcaster (Ramp Local) are playing a live show and doing an album signing at Rough Trade’s 30 Rock branch in New York on April 26th at 6pm | FREE TICKETS
🚌 Deerhoof (Joyful Noise) are currently on a tour of the US, Canada and the UK in support of their latest album Miracle-Level | TICKETS
🚌 alexalone (Polyvinyl) recently kicked off their tour and if you’re in Texas there’s still chance to see them! | TICKETS
That’s all for this one! Stay safe and we’ll catch you next week for more.