New Release Highlights August 3rd (August 6th in UK)
The G-Man Release Of The Week is :
Official Antony & The Johnsons website
Other ditties/releases of note this weekend…
(…and the past two weeks which I omitted whilst on holidays)
Purity Ring – Shrines
Micachu & The Shapes – Never
The Antlers – Undersea (EP)
The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends
Seams – Tourist/Sleeper
*If anyone is about Cork I recommend popping in to Jim and Albert in Plugd Records. The new store is up and running on Tobin Street as part of the new Triskel Arts Centre and you can even have a cup of tea and a bite to eat in their new café, Gulpd.
If you are located elsewhere I strongly recommend picking up at least one album when you can from your local independent store. Most independents now take orders by email and post out the stock if you are unable to get to the store so it may be worth checking out.
Current list of independent record stores in the Republic of Ireland (obviously still a work in progress):
Cork
Plugd Records – plugdrecords.blogspot.com
(Located on 1st floor of Triskel Arts Centre on Tobin Street – behind Soho off Grand Parade)
Dublin
Tower Records – www.towerrecords.ie
(6-8 Wicklow Street – just off Grafton Street)
Elastic Witch – elastic-witch.tumblr.com
(Located at the back of the Twisted Pepper on the ground floor – 54 Middle Abbey Street)
Sound Cellar – www.freewebs.com/soundcellar
(Located at 47 Nassau St Dublin 2)
The R.A.G.E. – theragedublin.tumblr.com
(Located at 16b Fade St Dublin 2)
Galway
Wingnut Records – www.facebook.com/wingnutrecords
(Located in The Bell, Book and Candle at Small Crane)
Limerick
Wingnut Records – www.facebook.com/wingnutrecordslimerick
(Located in Moviedrome, Henry Street)
Waterford
Wingnut Records – www.facebook.com/wingnutrecords
(Located in Hard Times, 2 Peter Street – just at the entrance to City Square)
Ben O’Neill Music Sho[ – www.benoneilldungarvan.com/
(Located in 19 O’Connell Street, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford)
Coming Soon :
Dead Can Dance – Anastasis (August 10th)
Cheek Mountain Thief – Cheek Mountain Thief (August 10th)
James Yorkston – I Was a Cat From a Book (August 10th)
The Parlez – Glisten (August 10th)
Of Monsters And Men – My Head Is An Animal (August 10th)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes (August 17th)
Wild Nothing – Nocturne (August 17th)
Bill Fay – Life Is People (August 17th)
Jogging – Take Courage (August 24th)
King Creosote – To Deal With Things (EP – August 24th)
Dan Deacon – America (August 24th)
Cat Power – Sun (August 31st)
Alberta Cross – Songs of Patience (August 31st)
Stealing Sheep – Into The Diamond Sun (August 31st)
Animal Collective – Centipede Hz (August 31st)
Iamamiwhoiam – Kin (August 31st)
Stealing Sheep – Into The Diamond Sun (September 4th)
No Spill Blood – Street Meat (September 4th)
David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant (September 7th)
Toy – Toy (September 7th)
The XX – Coexist (September 7th)
The Helio Sequence – Negotiations (September 7th)
Grizzly Bear – TBC (September 14th)
Dinosaur Jr – I Bet On Sky (September 14th)
How To Dress Well – Total Loss (September 14th)
Dum Dum Girls – End of Daze (September 21st)
The Jim Jones Revue – The Savage Heart (October 12th)
*All dates subject to change
**If anything is missing please let me know, especially unsigned bands!