July 1st: SODA BLONDE instore, JOE BONAMASSA Coloured Vinyl, BOWIE Glastonbury, JONI MITCHELL Box Sets, new FOR THOSE I LOVE and more from the Troublesome Three

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Hi all! So as ye know Ray is on his holibops so its me, Mia and Shane today. The boss is tanning it up as we speak. Mightnt come back if he gets too used to it! Anyways we’re grand! (Please come back!) 

 

Moving on…

 

Releases for Friday the 4th of July include

Just a reminder, we have the OLAFUR ARNALDS/TALOS release listening party on THURSDAY the 10th of July at 6 pm. Book your spot in the link there.

Releases for the 11th of July include…

For July 18th first and foremost we have Fontaines D.C with Romance (Bonus Edition). This on Turquoise Vinyl & comes with a 7” with the non-album tracks “It’s Amazing To Be Young” & “Before You I Just Forget” 

Uni for the 18th:

Warner 18th 

Sony 18th

Cargo 18th

Orchard 18th

Proper 18th 

Thats it from me. Go have a listen to The Mary Janes – Bored Of Their Laughing. Watched the Mic Christopher Doc recently on youtube and it reminded me how underappreciated that band was! Anyways, over to Shane…

Cheers, Adam.
Hi all, the Troublesome Three here today alright as Ray is away on a well deserved break on the yacht.
Newsletter today instead of the usual Wednesday as I’m off to see Weezer in Baile Aithe Cliath tomorrow.
Hope ye’re all doing well!

First up, we have an exciting in-store to mention coming up on Saturday July 26th at 4pm, SODA BLONDE will be with us launching their new EP, People Pleaser, on 12 inch red vinyl.
The new Irish pressing plant, Anthem Vinyl, did the vinyl.
Looking forward to seeing the band. Bit of a Kate Bush sound in parts.
Here’s a new track from the EP: https://youtu.be/f-EsavsvghE?si=fRJGF5ylmP46wKlJ

You can book a spot at the instore here:  https://musiczone.ie/product/soda-blonde-people-pleaser-ep-launch-instore/

Onto the further down the road releases, no messing around today, with some big hitters.
There’s a very cool sounding JONI MITCHELL release, ‘Joni’s Jazz’ coming on September 5th.
Here’s some info about it:

“Joni Mitchell introduces Joni’s Jazz, a passion project years in the making. This career-spanning collection features recordings chosen by Mitchell that reflect jazz’s profound influence on her music.

Spanning 61 tracks, Joni’s Jazz includes studio recordings, live performances, rare alternate takes, and material drawn from multiple decades and record labels, among them are two previously unreleased 1980 demos.

The set features contributions from some of Mitchell’s most important collaborators in jazz, among them Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock and Charles Mingus. Mitchell, who calls Shorter her favourite collaborator, dedicates the collection to him following his passing in 2023.

Covering nearly every era of her recording career, the collection includes selections from Songs to a Seagull, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Mingus, Turbulent Indigo, Both Sides Now (a 2001 Grammy Award winner) and more. It also features her guest appearances on projects like Hancock’s Grammy Award-winning album, River: The Joni Letters.

Across the collection, the music follows Mitchell’s artistic growth — from the rhythmic layering of “Harry’s House / Centerpiece” to the bold experimentation of “The Jungle Line,” the narrative scale of “Paprika Plains,” and the airy, improvised feel of “A Chair In The Sky.”

It draws from more than five decades of Mitchell’s recordings, going back to 1968 for “Marcie,” from Song to a Seagull. The most recent is her performance of “Summertime,” recorded live at the 2023 Newport Folk Festival. It marked Mitchell’s first full-length concert in over two decades — a powerful return that resonated around the world.

As a self-portrait in sound, Joni’s Jazz captures an artist in conversation with jazz over a lifetime — never imitating, always inventing. Last year, in the liner notes for Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 4, she joked, “People ask me my favourite of my albums, it’s going to be Joni’s Jazz.” Now it is.”

4 CD or 8 LP sets of that.

After Glastonbury weekend, there’s DAVID BOWIE – Glastonbury 2000 coming out on August 1st.
Legendary performance, it hasn’t been on vinyl for a long while.
Here’s ‘Life on Mars’ from it (Jack O Rourke did an amazing version of this in-store back when we were in Douglas Village): https://youtu.be/sJB24LVx6fw?si=VIRNjMKrVF-AumCx

And the new album from Dublin’s FOR THOSE I LOVE – Carving the Stone is coming out the week after Bowie. Their last/debut album was great! There’ll be CD, indies clear vinyl or an Irish exclusive transparent orange vinyl of this.
Here’s a new track from it: https://youtu.be/mp-f6cG6rco?si=scBZigpVFQlfmLbc

Just to clear up, as a couple people have asked, with the releases that we list, the blue ones are live links that you can click into and see more info about the product, and BUY IT on our website. And the other black ones we didn’t get a chance to create links for, so if you’re interested in ones without the link just pop us an email and we can order for you.
We get more links done when Mia is on board.
It’s all linked to hawking anyway!

Here’s some more interesting down the road releases:

That’s all from us today folks, we didn’t burn mailchimp down at least.
Might see some of ye Rory heads down the Marquee later.

As Ray says, Sin e from us.
Thanks for listening.
Shane, Adam Og and Mia.