Topshelf

Jeremy’s picks include TWIABP, A Great Big Pile of Leaves, Really From, and more…

Boston’s Really From will release their self-titled third album this March, and lead single ”Try Lingual” is one hell of a first taste.

Pittsburgh screamo band Shin Guard put out two great releases last year, and they’re now teasing a new album and gearing up for a tour with Standards, who are prepping their debut album for Topshelf.

The album was recorded by Dave Vettraino (Melkbelly, NE-HI), and mastered by Total Control’s Mikey Young, and it’s one part Pavement, one part jangly ’60s Brit-psych.

Also, watch People Like You’s new video for “Variations on an Aria” off their clean, mathy, horn-filled new album ‘Verse.’

In protest of President Donald Trump’s declaration that transgender people will no longer be able to serve in the military, Bandcamp is donating 100% of its share of all sales today (August 4) to the Transgender Law Center…

Mock Orange are the latest “golden age” emo band to sign to Topshelf, and they’ll release their first album for the label (sixth overall), Put The Kid On The Sleepy Horse, on May 20. It follows 2011’s Disguised as Ghosts. In case you haven’t been keeping up with Mock Orange, they haven’t sounded like an emo band in a while. The album’s new single “Nine Times” is arty mid-tempo rock with shaky vocals, and weird musical twists and turns…

Boston-born record label Topshelf stuffed their CMJ party with the sort of bleary-eyed, ruddy-cheeked indie rock that they’ve built their modest name off of since 2006, but the funereal crawl of Brooklyn folkies Lizard Kisses was asynchronously tapped to kick off the proceedings…

Short-lived but influential ’90s emo band Boys Life reunited this year and signed to Topshelf for a reissue of their 1996 album, Departures and Landfa…