It is with a great deal of excitement and optimism that we share with you the news that we'll be working with Brooklyn, NY's Infinity Girl in releasing their sophomore full length album Harm on August 28, 2015! Pre-orders and a song premiere are up now! read more →
This July Braid will be headed out on a summer tour around this year’s Wrecking Ball Fest! Along the way they’ll be playing with The Get Up Kids, Beach Slang, Prawn and Dikembe. For dates, info & tickets, read more →
We are completely elated to announce that we are working with Happy Diving to release a new 7" on July 17! For the uninitiated, the band has members in Seattle and the Bay Area and invokes comparisons to bands like Dinosaur Jr or peers like California X, Ovlov and Milk Music. I gushed about their debut full length album Big World last year to anyone that would listen (released by the absurdly wonderful Father/Daughter Records) as it's an album that completely took me by surprise and became my defacto life-soundtrack. The band's new two-song 7” was recorded in just four hours at The Atomic Garden in East Palo Alto, CA, with the help of producer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Joyce Manor, Whirr) and sees the band channeling their frenzied energy and deafening and vivacious live shows into two magnificently sludgy pop songs. For track listing, cover art and pre-order notification sign up along with upcoming tour dates, read more →
Apparently Sorority Noise are set on touring every single day this summer. In addition to their current dates with Fireworks and Turnover and their upcoming dates with Motion City Soundtrack, the band has now added August dates around Wrecking Ball Fest with You Blew It and Microwave. For dates and info, read more →
In addition to their current US tour, Sundials will be headed overseas this summer! For dates and info, read more →
Now that they're done recording their new EP, Baltimore's WIldhoney will be touring the east coast this June around their dates at NYC Popfest and Northside Festival. Joining them for the duration of the tour will be Edinburgh, Scotland's The Spook School — for dates and info, read more →
Last fall Swedish screamo four-piece Suis La Lune went back into the studio to begin recording new material. The resulting recordings make up the band's forthcoming four-song EP entitled Distance / Closure and today we're happy to announce the details for it! The band headed into Guitarist and vocalist Henning Runolf’s basement studio to record the new material. The new EP is set for release on July 31, 2015. For cover art, track listing and pre-order details, read more →
LITE have just released a free download of six live recordings. The tracks are from the live-streaming session at Red Bull Studios Tokyo in March. Named after their upcoming tour starting from Tokyo and Osaka, it is titled APPROACHES 4 and includes a new track called "Balloon". read more →
School's out, Kick's out and Sundials are gigging! As one of our favorite bands to see live, we wholly recommend catching them on their upcoming east coast tour if you have the opportunity — for dates and info, read more →
There's something really amazing about hearing music for the first time from a band you've never heard of and having it instantly resonate — so much so that you need to hear more of it. It's the kind of feeling that keeps me excited every day about music and why we will always love our "jobs" here at ~Topshelf Records, Inc.~. Without a doubt, my favorite thing about running a record label is taking that excitement and occasionally getting to share it with all of you. Today we're doing that in the form of Chicago, IL's Ratboys. read more →
It's been three years since The Saddest Landscape last released a full length album. Which might seem like a long time for an active band, until you consider the myriad of splits and EPs they've released in the interim. This time around, the band will be enlisting the help of Jay Maas (Title Fight, Ceremony, Defeater) to record the as-yet-untitled studio album with recording beginning today. read more →
Today we're excited to announce Joy, Departed, the new record from Sorority Noise, set to be released June 16th. For pre-order details, premiere details, track listing and cover art, read more →
Freshly out of the studio and armed with new material, Wild Ones are headed out on a quick west coast tour with The Helio Sequence in July! For dates and info, read more →
Back in 1996, Seth and I were in middle school while, completely unbeknownst to us, one of our favorite records of all time was being recorded. Nearly twenty years later, and here we are re-releasing Boys Life's seminal Departures and Landfalls. For pressing info and reunion show info, read more →
With the release of their Record Store Day 7-inch Kids Get Grids and last year's critically acclaimed full length No Coast, Braid now has more than an ample supply of new material to play live. The band will be taking said material overseas for their first Japanese tour since 2004 — for dates and info, read more →
Get ready to be seeing a lot of Sorority Noise on the road this year — starting with their upcoming tour with Motion City Soundtrack this summer for their Commit This to Memory tour. For dates and info, read more →
This summer Prawn will be heading overseas to tour the UK and Europe with Hindsights and Brightr — for dates and info, read more →
After a busy schedule that that saw the band tour the US with Kevin Devine and play this year's SXSW, Field Mouse are currently working on new material to follow up last year's Hold Still Life. The break will be short-lived, though, as they'll be joining Hop Along this spring and mewithoutYou and Foxing later this summer! For dates and info for the latter, read more →
In what can only be described as something that makes 100% no sense and I can't believe I am typing but is so awesome, this summer You Blew It will be headed out on tour with Coheed & Cambria — for dates and info, read more →
Effortlessly combining wall-of-sound power with delicate passages and gorgeous vocal melodies Wildhoney simply have a wonderful knack for balancing blasts of distortion and dense textures with beautiful pop tunes and chiming guitar work. So it's with a great deal of elation that I am announcing that we'll be releasing a new EP for the band later this year! read more →
With a new full length and EP under their belts, Prawn will be busy touring the US and Canada this spring — their first ever stint on the west coast as well! Accompanying them for the tour will be Frameworks, Whirr, Free Throw, Xerxes, Del Paxton, Gulfer and First Ghost. For dates and info, read more →
With four EPs under their belts, few bands have as expansive a catalog going into the release of their debut LP, but today's the day Diamond Youth finally unveil the details for their FIRST full length album. Pre-orders for the new LP Nothing Matters are up now! — and you can have a listen to a new song "Thought I Had It Right" over on BrooklynVegan. read more →
Fresh off a full US tour with Kevin Devine and riding the momentum of their debut full length — last year's Hold Still Life, Field Mouseare going on tour with the very wonderful Hop Along!! For dates and info, read more →
This summer, toe will be touring North America! For dates and info, read more →
Sorority Noise will be joining Fireworks and Turnover later this spring for the east coast leg of Fireworks' US tour! For dates and info, read more →
Diamond Youth will be headed out on a full US tour later this year with Superheaven & Rozwell Kid! For, dates & info, read more →
Congratulations to The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die on signing to Epitaph Records! They are the last of our bands still on the roster that we began working with over myspace messages. Truly the end of a bygone era. You can catch them on tour in the northeast later this spring as they embark on a short trip to get hot dogs with Spraynard & Makeshift Shelters read more →
We're elated to announce that we'll be releasing a new album from The Velvet Teen this summer. They're one of our favorite bands and as long-time followers of their music, this album has us the most excited of any to date — the album is titled All Is Illusory and will be released on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. read more →
We've announced our SXSW showcase details! read more →
Prawn & Frameworks will be heading out on a co-headline west coast tour later this spring! For dates and info, read more →