? IC Community Weekly #58: Bandcamp Friday Edition

Hey and welcome to a new edition of IC Community Weekly!

In a week where the UMG vs. TikTok battle ended not with a bang, but with a whimper , the IC community announced new jobs, released stellar music, announced tours, and more!

Keep scrolling for all of that, but first, the news from IC HQ and the wider community…

• Reminder that we’ll be at both Music Biz in Nashville (May 13th-16th) and A2IM Indie Week (June 10th-13th)! If you’ll be at either and want to meet up, just reply to this email!
• ?? This Week in IC ! Updated Zebralution and YouTube Publishingimporters, and look at how contracts work in IC!

• Joyful Noise are starting Artist Enabler Club , a way of releasing new music by art folk outsiders Danielson to the world. Starting on June 3rd, and continuing for 15 months, Danielson?will be creating new?songs and sharing the demos exclusively with club members and not releasing them on other formats.?
• Pack Records’ co-founder Sky McElroy has been nominated for the A2IM Board ?this year! He’s focusing on helping indies with funding, streaming rates, and developing more strategic, culturally relevant partnerships.

IC PARTNER NEWS

A new section where IC Partners - aka organizations we’ve teamed up with to further help catalogs/artists get royalties done - get to flex some news. Want to become an IC Partner? Reach out to our co-founder Hunter.

• Today marks the 40th Bandcamp Friday , the initiative that Bandcamp started during lockdown in 2020 to waive its revenue share for a day a month. Since then they say there have been over $123m of sales on Bandcamp Fridays and its community of 47 million fans is "growing at a rate of approximately 100,000 per month".
• Music Biz announced their After Party events for this year’s event, taking place May 13th-16th in Nashville.

JOBS IN THE COMMUNITY

???? Secretly Group have an entry level job as an Office Assistant! Apply .

???? Polyvinyl are seeking a part time Marketing Intern based out of their Austin office, as part of a program that’s designed to provide students with real-world experience working alongside music industry professionals with the option to earn college credit. This in-person position is open immediately but be quick - applications close today at 5 PM CST. More info and apply .

NEW IC CATALOGS

A very warm ?? to…

Basement Art , a Pretoria, South Africa based deep house label that was established in 2016 by DJs KiloBase & Sir KG.

BANDCAMP FRIDAY

Bandcamp is waiving their 15-20% fee today so all revenue goes to artists & labels.

Special events and offers from the community today include:

? Captured Tracks band The Lemon Twigs are hosting an album release listening party today (with the band in the chat) on their Bandcamp page at 2pm EDT (7PM GMT)! RSVP here .

? Sahel Sounds have once once again set their entire digital discography to name your price .

? Merge have set the catalogs of Caribou, Hiss Golden Messenger (incl. the new live album Jesus Is Bored and Other Favorites), Redd Kross and The Mountain Goatsto pay-what-you-want today .

And here’s what we’ve got our eye on here at IC:

?? Rachel is planning to get Light Verse , the seventh studio album by singer-songwriter Iron & Wine, which Sub Pop just released.

?? Ari is keen to order Never Coming Back by Antwerp-based composer and synth virtuoso MIAUX, which comes out June 7th on VIERNULVIER Records.

?? Austin has his sights set on Spectral Evolution by Portuguese artist Rafael Toralon Drag City.

?? Hunter wants to to get Stage of Love , the most recent record from the New York performer and video artist Mary Jane Dunphe on Pop Wig Records.

?? Adam has his eye on If I don’t make it I love u by Glasgow-based experimental songwriters Still House Plants on Bison Records.

NEW RELEASES

ALBUMS

?? Mexican Summer (with City Slang) released the new Jessica Pratt album Here in the Pitch , which just got a Best new Music commendation from Pitchfork alongside its 8.8 review . They call it a “…prime example of hypnagogic folk that quietly explores the simultaneity of time in all its misery, wonder, and promise.”

?? Captured Tracks released A Dream Is All We Know , the new album by The Lemon Twigs, which finds brothers Michaeland Brian D’addario exploring upbeat, shimmering arrangements that live in an imaginary space they call Mersey Beach: the sonic bridge between Liverpool and Laurel Canyon.

?? Father/Daughter released Steven , the sophomore album by NYC-based singer-songwriter Steven Raekwon Reynolds—who makes music under the moniker S. Raekwon.

?? Raw Tapes released Music for Superstars , the new record by Kapitan & Rejoicer, purveyors of “free-form ambient, instrumental music that touches the soul”.

SINGLES

?? Sooper released Too High To Die , the second single from the forthcoming Rami Gabriel LP, which is accompanied by a music video from filmmaker Stefan Fernandez.

?? Father/Daughter released a double single called Moth Penny Casino / The Way It Is by Perth, Australia singer-songwriter Mia June, which “…lays bare the complexities and contradictions of human emotion” and highlight her ability to “ceremoniously blend the rawness of connection into charged, undeniable songwriting.”

?? DFA released a new 7” (After Us/Look of Disgust ) from Museum Of Love, the musical project of Pat Mahoney and Dennis McNany. and I Got, She’s Got , the new single from Argentinian producer Fernando.

?? Paradise Music Group released Perfect , a new single from pestotrip.

?? H1 Massive shared the latest Joey Wit single, Slower , on all major streaming platforms.

REISSUES

?? Merge announced that they’ll be reissuing the 2000 masterpiece The Coroner’s Gambit by The Mountain Goats, which has long been out of print. It returns to CD and LP (and makes its cassette debut) on June 28th, with new liner notes by John Darnielle.

?? Propleller are releasing the first ever vinyl pressing of Stands for deciBels by The dB’s, the US power pop/jangle pop group who first came into prominence in the late 1970s. The record was cited by Pitchfork as one of its Top 100 Albums of the 1980s.

?? Suicide Squeeze are re-pressing Tunnel Blanket by Texan post-rock band This Will Destroy You, “…an ever-shifting, always moving work, which seems to evolve before the listener - spidery guitar lines feeling their way forth like vines scrambling up trunks in time-lapse photography.”

BOOKS

?? Velocity Press published the new Matthew Smith zine The Tories Are The Real Criminal - a 68 page, A5 zine of his photos of non-violent direct action from demonstrations in 1994?against the Criminal Justice Bill. Available now in all good book shops, record stores and directly from them .

PRE-ORDERS

?? Carpark announced that Compassion , the debut album by Venezuelan-born, Indiana-based songwriter Rui Gabriel will come out June 21st. In the meantime check out the video for the latest single from it, Summertime Tiger and grab tickets to his upcoming US tour .

NEW SIGNINGS

?? Royal Mountain have signed Fold Paper, a post-punk band led by the Nigeria-born, Michigan-raised and Winnipeg-based Chell?Osuntade and released their second ever single, Nothing To Report .

?? Fire Talk?announced they’ve signed Why Bonnie, the New York-based project of Blair Howerton, and released their new single/video, Dotted Line , the band’s first piece of new music since 2022 record 90 in November.

?? Sooper signed Chicago singer-songwriter & producer Carlile and released a video for new single My Neighborhood .

VIDEOS

??? INNI released a video for Reaction, the first single from the upcoming audio-visual EP Stages of Change by Swedish composer and musician Jakob Lindhagen.

https://youtu.be/O_reRlDisCg

INTERVIEWS

??? Jessica Pratt (Mexican Summer) spoke to Stereogum about the headspace that went into making Here In The Pitch her most embodied album yet, how true love affected her creative process and the darker undertones of the record.

FROM THE ARCHIVE

??? Where I choose a video I love from YouTube’s treasure trove of music videos, live performances and curiosities.

This week: celebrating the aforementioned This Will Destroy You (Suicide Squeeze), with the trippy Lilfuchs-directed video for their track New Topia from 2015.

https://youtu.be/V_tDiEwjAEU

SHOWS, TOURS + EVENTS

?? Packs (Fire Talk) are playing with Why Bonnie TONIGHT at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn from 7pm | TICKETS

?? nonclassical are holding a 20th anniversary celebrations event tomorrow at the Southbank Centre in London. It features: a FREE sound installation in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer at 6pm, a concert in the Purcell Room ft. six world premieres at 7pm, and an After Hours concert in the foyer ft. cello, electronics, Gaelic songs, dance and more at 9pm | TICKETS

?? Paper Garden Records are hosting the next in their monthly concert series, Market Hall-Pass, on May 17th. It’s a multi-sensory travel-themed experiential music series and promises live music, drinks, and cuisine from all around the world. Doors open at 6pm, with the first act kicking things off at 7pm | TICKETS

?? NNAMD? (Sooper) is heading out on a European tour next week with Hurray For The Riff Raff (Nonesuch) | TICKETS

?? The Get Up Kids (Polyvinyl) will celebrate 25 years of their discography staple,?Something To Write Home About, with a special run of shows performing the album its entirety | TICKETS ?

?? UPCOMING INDUSTRY EVENTS

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

May 3rd - 4th ? Spot Festival (Aarhus, Denmark)

May 4th - 5th ? Sound City Conference (Liverpool, UK)

May 13th - 16th ? Music Biz (Nashville, TN, US)*

May 15th - 18th ? The Great Escape (Brighton, UK)

May 22nd - 24th ? Brighton Music Conference (Brighton, UK)

May 27th - 28th ? Africa Rising Music Conference (Johannesburg, South Africa)

May 30th - June 2nd ? Primavera Sound (Barcelona, Spain)

June 1st - 8th ? Canadian Music Week (Toronto, Canada)

June 3rd - 5th ? NIVA 2024 (New Orleans, LA, US) *we’ll be there!

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

- Adam & the Infinite Catalog crew