Iron & Wine are set to release a new single as part of the upcoming ‘Black Friday’ event.
In case you haven’t noticed, Christmas is on the way. Supermarkets are slipping advent calendars in through the back door, waiting patiently for the Halloween rush to end so they can fill the aisles with tinsel.
Amid the morass of advertising, spare a thought for independent businesses. Huge supermarkets can write down music releases, confident in the knowledge that customers can spend elsewhere to make the practice worthwhile.
Now a new project in America aims to help out independent record stores. Brought to you by the boffins behind ‘Record Store Day’ the upcoming ‘Black Friday’ event will boast a similar array of new releases.
Black Friday is the name given by American retailers to the day after Thanksgiving. Traditionally the start of the Christmas rush, this year it falls on November 26th and will result in a flood of new music.
Iron & Wine are set to release their new single ‘Walking Far From Home’. Available on CD and 12 inch vinyl, the lead track is coupled with new songs ‘Summer In Savannah’ and ‘Biting Your Tail’.
Available from November 26th, Iron & Wine’s new single will only be released physically in independent record stores. Elsewhere, MGMT are due to release a special gatefold single while Grinderman, Cee-Lo and The Gaslight Anthem are all due to take part.
Even legends such as Bob Dylan are planning special releases, with the songwriter due to release a seven inch featuring archival versions of ‘The Times They Are A-Changing’ and ‘Like A Rolling Stone’.
A host of labels, promoters and stores are set to take part with events planned across the United States. Not quite as high profile as the more international ‘Record Store Day’ the releases will no doubt filter across the Atlantic in time.
‘Black Friday’ is on November 26th.
