Live at the Elks Lodge in Cambridge, MA on May 18th, 2013.
Photos from last night.
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Into It. Over It. playing their second set of CMJ at the Topshelf Records CMJ Showcase at Suburbia in Brooklyn, NY while Seth and Slingshot Dakota’s Tom Patterson look on.
Pre-order Life Is Suffering, the 200-page, full color, hard cover book featuring the above and hundreds of other photographs from Hilary Corts along with an accompanying Into It. Over It. live 7” record to commemorate the fall 2012 Into It. Over It. full band tour.
Today’s stream comes from Baltimore, MD-based Have Mercy. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new release, The Earth Pushed Back. The album was produced by J. Robbins. You can find it on their Punknews.org Profile. (Just to editorialize for a second, the first single from the album (and from th.
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The World is a Beautiful Place & I am no Longer Afraid to Die’s Whenever, If Ever is #1 on bandcamp! Thanks, everyone!
Into It. Over It. playing the Topshelf Records warehouse generator party at Fest 11 in Gainesville, FL. It was shut down by the cops shortly after. There’s video of it here.
Pre-order Life Is Suffering, the 200-page, full color, hard cover book featuring the above and hundreds of other photographs from Hilary Corts along with an accompanying Into It. Over It. live 7” record to commemorate the fall 2012 Into It. Over It. full band tour.
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Whenever, If Ever
- stream on Youtube for free.
- download on bandcamp immediately for just $7.
- listen to on bandcamp for free.
- listen to on soundcloud for free.
- and, of course, order physically on CD or vinyl.
Sharing is caring.
Whenever, If Ever
Today was an exciting one here at our office as it saw the unveiling of two very special, near and dear records and our first foray into putting out a book (even if it has 200 pages and probably less than 200 words, haha). The humbling feeling of validation when you see something you believe in getting such widespread praise and support is something I hope everyone gets to experience at some point or another, even if in just some simple small way. The response to these records going on sale today — the culmination of years of planning, writing, setbacks, collaborating, personal sacrafice, etc. — is just that. So I’m sure when I say thank you for your support I speak for Hilary, Evan, everyone here at Topshelf and everyone in The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, collectively.
So now, I am faced with the difficult decision of acknowledging that Whenever, If Ever is actively leaking a month before it’s release date. You can probably Google for it right now and get it.
This is arguably the biggest release we’ll have all year as a label and this spoils a lot of planning we had in place over the last few months, but these things happen. This also forces me to acknowledge the real-world truth that yes, records cost money. This oft-avoided subject in our community is a reality for everyone who tours or postpones real life to make music in nearly any capacity. It’s a thing. This record is no different.
So against my better judgement, we’ve made Whenever, If Ever available to:
- stream on Youtube for free.
- download on bandcamp immediately for just $7.
- listen to on bandcamp for free.
- listen to on soundcloud for free.
- and, of course, order physically on CD or vinyl.
Anyone who has pre-ordered the record already — thank you, sincerely — you’ll be getting downloads as soon as I can get everything set up (we weren’t planning on sending them for another month after all).
So, I’m appealing to you all to please use the above URLs to share, acquire and experience this record. I understand it’s 2013 and you can download and share this for free (and we’re not going to stop you) but I’m not doing my job if I don’t ask. Heh, I don’t have a job if I don’t ask.
Thanks, you guys.
“Let’s hope that this works out; this has got to work out”
-The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, “Fightboat”
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - “Picture of a Tree That Doesn’t Look OK” from Whenever, If Ever — which will be out June 18, 2013 and is available for pre-order now in our store.
Read Purevolume’s post with a quote from Greg about how the song came together along with the band’s upcoming tour dates here.
I think Greg [Horbal, guitarist/vocalist] said “the a-side of the record is pop-punk goes to space” and “the b-side is ‘weed,” kind of accurate. I think he showed the record to some teenagers in Northern Virginia and they said it sounded like The Wonder Years. That was upsetting.
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Derek Shanholtzer-Dvorak on the new The World is a Beautiful Place record http://mindequalsblown.net/2013/05/10/interview-the-world-is-a-beautiful-place-and-i-am-no-longer-afraid-to-die/ (via silence-kid) |
Crash of Rhinos // Topshelf Records
Ever since first hearing Distal in 2011 we’ve been hooked on Crash of Rhinos. The Derby, UK natives have written a record — entitled Knots — that is exactly what I ever want to listen to. So when we were asked to get involved with releasing it, it was kind of a no-brainer. Sonically, it fits perfectly with our catalog and if you’re typically a fan of records we put out, you’re gonna like this.
Photo by Dan Wheeler
We’ll be pairing up with Big Scary Monsters in the UK and To Lose La Track in Italy to bring this to y’all. Expect a late summer release. We’ll have pre-order details and an exact release date soon!
Have a listen to a new song, “Opener”, from their forthcoming full length right below and give ‘em a follow on Twitter and Facebook.
Jackets are in for The Saddest Landscape’s Exit Wounded and we just approved the test presses. If you haven’t pre-ordered it yet, you can do so here.
Album Review: Sainthood Reps / Weatherbox - Split EP
It’s long been established that when Topshelf Records releases something, that something is going to be good. Records like this Sainthood Reps / Weatherbox split are exactly why that’s the case. Clocking in at just seven minutes, each band has one three-minute-something chance to detail why people should take notice and each band is thoroughly successful in the head turning stakes.
Sainthood Reps are up first with ‘Deadlines,’ a track that winds its way around the mind and latches on like an emotional parasite. You’ll be feeding this one with every thought you have until finally it detaches itself, leaving only the shadow of a brilliant guitar line and the echo of desperate backing vocals to sate your racing mind.
From Have Mercy’s debut full length record, The Earth Pushed Back available May 21, 2013 through Topshelf Records.
From A Great Big Pile of Leaves’ debut full length album You’re Always On My Mind out everywhere July 2, 2013 on vinyl, CD & digitally.
I’m building out an extensive Topshelf Records discography for the new site. When I’m done, it’ll have pressing info, tracklisting, catalog info, photographs (of course) as well as a detailed account from myself and/or Seth about how the record came together — hopefully also some blurbs from members of the bands, engineers / producers, etc. as well.
Kudos to Zac Suskevich for sitting in our storage unit all day and taking photo after photo for this!
