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Wild Rocket - Dissociation Mechanics OUT NOW on 12″ vinyl and CD / Digital.

Live Dates August / September See the Psychedelic/Stoner/Noise/Doom Rockers Wild Rocket as they make appearances around the country in support of their latest record ‘Dissociation Mechanics’:

Saturday 19th August - GGI Fest, Carlow Sunday 20th August - Whelan's, Dublin w/ Boris Friday 1st September - Emerald Haze, Dublin Saturday 2nd September - Roisin Dubh, Galway

Limited electric blue vinyl is still available from the AFB bandcamp.

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We are delighted to announce that we will be pressing the third full length album SALT by Katie Kim on CD. We hope the CD version will be available in time for October 15th album launch in Dublin at the Unitarian church and you can pre-order the CD here: https://artforblind.bandcamp.com/album/salt

We have been big fans of Katie’s unique and unearthly take on folk since moving to Ireland and are really happy to be working with her on Salt. Above is a little teaser video and we will have some tracks from the record available very soon!

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Lorraine - Gimbal Lock :: Pitch/Roll/Yaw EP Incoming! We are co-releasing the debut 7″ by Viennese four-piece Lorraine next month. The band have shared Pitch/Roll/Yaw in advance of the full release on 16th August. The EP is a refreshing blend of post-punk and No Wave and we are buzzed to be teaming up with a bunch of rad Euro labels!

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The Altered Hours Summer Live Shows

After some respite following their lengthiest ever tour back in Spring in support of In Heat Not Sorry, their debut LP; The Altered Hours will be hitting the festival circuit with these summer shows: :: 18th Jun - Body&Soul  :: 24th Jun - Wellington Weekender (Workman's Club, Dublin) :: 1st Jul - Castlepalooza :: 9th Jul - Townlands Carnival :: 23rd Jul - Knockanstockan

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Announcing Ellll ‘Romance’ on vinyl EP!! We are very pleased to announce that we will once again be dipping our toe into the River Lee to work with the Cork-based electronic producer Ellll to release her debut outing on vinyl. ‘Romance’ will lead a four track EP, which earlier this year got a video premiere on The 405.  Ellll plays live this bank holiday weekend at Open Ear on Sherkin Island tonight and Boiler Room, Dublin on 6 Jun. Video by Louise Adelaide McKeown.

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Snake Premiere at Noisey

Aussie good guy Tim Scott did a brief Q&A with The Hipshakes this week and is hosting a special bank holiday premiere of their new album Snake. Head over to the link below for a sneak peak before we release the record on Tuesday!

http://noisey.vice.com/en_au/blog/stream-snake-the-latest-album-from-manchester-punks-the-hipshakes

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The Hipshakes - Snake Limited Edition Screen Printed cover artwork

We are delighted to announce a super limited hand screen printed version of our upcoming release Snake by The Hipshakes. This is the first in what we hope will be many collaborations with new Dublin based Design & Print studio Tonal Press. The bespoke jackets are a 4 colour re-working of the original artwork, complete with cover embossing and have been printed in a limited edition of 30. 

These will be available from the band themselves at their Record Store Day gig in Manchester this evening and from Liber Records in our hometown of Sligo today. The record is also available online from our bandcamp. Online orders will ship from Monday so it is also a chance to hear the full album ahead of it’s official release on April 29th.

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We are pleased to announce that our next release is ‘Snake’ by The Hipshakes and available to pre-order today. The fourth full-length by the band from Bakewell, Snake is their first outing on Art for Blind. The LP contains thirteen tracks of unadulterated garage-punk, bursting with catchy chorus lines, raucous guitars, ferocious drum beats and vocals belted out by all four 'shakes. Clocking in at just over 30 mins, the self-proclaimed experts at intros, have paid particular attention to outros this time round and the results are guitar pop confection. You can watch the video for ‘Unforgiven Eyes’ premiering over on waxmusicuk now.

The LP will be released on 29th April and available from local record shops via Cargo. The pressing is limited to 300 copies, 100 on transparent magenta with artwork by Daniel Russell.  

To support the release of ‘Snake‘, the band are playing a record store day show (16th April) at The Ruby Lounge in Manchester – tickets are available here. 

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We are pleased to announce that you can pre-order the debut album IN HEAT NOT SORRY by The Altered Hours now on LP / CD / Digital.

IN HEAT NOT SORRY is their first full length album, recorded at the Funkhaus studio in Berlin.

Following their work with Fabien Leseure on the Sweet Jelly Roll EP (A Recordings) in 2013, plans were made to further explore the potential for capturing the band's intense live energy. The group returned to Berlin in 2014 and spent three weeks exploring, experimenting and recording with Leseure at the controls.

The project began with a great variety of songs and ideas and from these a direct and cohesive approach with an emphasis on live recording was decided upon.

The resulting ten tracks bring to light the group's evolution since their last EP – starting with a lush psychedelic sound and pushing towards a stark and honest headspace. This album has clearly been influenced by the dismal yet beautiful surroundings of the 1950s Funkhaus studio building, a former DDR radio center. In many ways IN HEAT NOT SORRY'S sound and atmosphere encapsulates the band's ongoing fascination with testing (and sometimes disrupting) that fine balance between tranquility and chaos.

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Ireland's Altered Hours Premiere The Invigorating "Silver Leather"

A psychedelic, distortion-heavy track about disgust.

The Altered Hours shared a second track from their forthcoming debut LP IN HEAT NOT SORRY.

The track is called ‘Silver Leather’ and Cathal explains what it’s all about over on the The Fader!

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This year has been a slightly quieter one for Art For Blind on account of us adding a new member to our team in March, but we will be making up for it with 3 new releases early in the new year from The Altered Hours, The Hipshakes and Autumns. For the remainder of this year we will be running a couple of sales to make space for new things and to bring in a few bucks. Free Shipping on all orders from the distro (over €10 & excludes bundles) http://artforblind.limitedrun.com/

Entire digital discography on bandcamp for €20.32 http://artforblind.bandcamp.com/album/way-of-sorrow

New 7” and 12” bundles http://artforblind.limitedrun.com/categories/bundles Our tenth year has been great and we had a lot of fun with the records we released this year. It feels like it gets harder to keep this going every year and we really appreciate anyone who supports the label in anyway.

Thanks x

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The Altered Hours Debut Album

We are excited to announce that Cork's The Altered Hours who released their excellent 7” single Dig Early through Art For Blind in Spring 2014 will be returning to the label for their long awaited debut album. The album titled In Heat Not Sorry, will arrive in January next year on CD / LP and Digital Download and will be released in collaboration with our good friends Penske Recordings. The first single from the album, Way of Sorrow is available to stream/download right now on Bandcamp/Itunes and the band will be heading out for a few live shows over the coming months.

Live shows:

Sheffield - 24/9 @ Audacious Art Exp. w/ Sun Araw Liverpool - 26/9 @ Liverpool Psych Fest Cork - 3/10 @ The Pavilion w/ Girl Band Dublin - 1/10 @ HWCH Festival (Hangar venue)

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No Ditching Mini-tour

No Ditching are hitting the road come early June for a mini-tour they will be making the following stops: 04/06 - Spread Eagle, York 05/06 - The Urban Bar Whitechapel, London 06/06 - Birmingham 07/06 - Wharf Chambers, Leeds

Pre-orders for the Inseparable EP have shipped!

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WEEK 29 // NO DITCHING // DICKHEAD // 2015

No Ditching are most definitely my find of the week. These mega babes are out to steal my heart. They’ve nailed that whole teen angst, nonchalant aesthetic in their new track Dickhead; the combination of raw sound and emotionless, almost bored performance is perfect. These girls are a prime example of bands emerging from the north that are killing it on the grunge front and it always gives me so much pleasure to see punk bands made up soley of women that ooze power and attitude. They’ve given us just a little taster of what’s to come on their forthcoming EP and I for one can not wait. Keep nailing it guys!

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Phil Taggart's Mixtape, Phil Taggart - BBC Radio 1

Phil is back with another future music mix.

No Ditching’s “Dickhead” was played on Phil Taggart's Mixtape on BBC radio 1 last night, listen back here, the track kicks in around the 52 minute mark.

Pre-order the full EP over on our bandcamp.

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Watch: “Dickhead” by No Ditching

No Ditching are the latest offering from the hot bed of DIY pop that is Pity Me, Durham. Featuring members of Martha, the all female line-up of No Ditching deliver sardonic and infectious pop punk tunes that aim to have a great time whilst purging gripes along the way.

The video is directed by Nathan Stephens-Griffin.

“Dickhead” features on the three-track EP Inseparable coming soon on 7″ vinyl, limited transparent blue moon vinyl is available to pre-order now. 

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The Hipshakes join the AFB family!

We are delighted to announce that The Hipshakes are joining the Art For Blind ranks. Former teen sensations from small market town, civil parish, capital of the Peak District and home of the Pudding - Bakewell - The Hipshakes have been friends since before they can remember. They bought instruments at 15 and have been playing together ever since. Early efforts were snotty-nosed and short, brilliant and bratty. With advancing years their noses may have dried up but the hits haven’t. The highly photogenic bunch will be releasing their 4th album with us later this year, which is extremely exciting news for us having being big fans of them for a while now. Fortunately, you won’t have to wait too long for a taste of The Hipshakes brand of power pop punk as the band have self released two(!) previous studio albums which we will be distributing on their behalf. “Sounds We Found” and “Maximum Growth and Vigour” will be available from your local record shop from May 18th and are available to order right now both on vinyl and Digitally from our shop. 

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Listen here: https://thehipshakes.bandcamp.com/track/hold-you-tight

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