Blog: Shelflife Records

The Holiday Crowd are heading overseas to Germany, Italy, France and the UK. March 18 - Berlin, Germany at Marie-Antoinette w/ Der Elegante Rest. info March 20 - Rome, Italy at Blackmarket, presented by indieforbunnies.com. info March 21 - Carpi, Italy at Mattatoio. info March 22 - Treviso, Italy at Spazio MAAV Vittorio Veneto. info March 23 - Milan, Italy at Pop Days #1 @ Ohibò [...]

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Finally had a chance to finish this up. Have to say 2012 was a challenge to commit to a solid list. I especially found it difficult to exclude all Shelflife releases. Albums by Burning Hearts, Dylan Mondegreen and The Garlands would surely be in the mix for my top 5. The pains of being unbiased ... But top honors this year is still no real surprise. Violens "True" was an easy love affair. A sound that just defines "wheelhouse" for me. The first three tracks on the record are [...]

Download the new Dylan Mondegreen single for "Come Tomorrow" for free! Includes the full album version of "Come Tomorrow" featuring the lovely Maria Due sharing vocal duties with Børge, as well as two exclusive remixes: "Keeper of Secrets" by the legendary Ian Catt (producer of Saint Etienne, The Field Mice, Northern Picture Library, Trembling Blue Stars, etc) and "The Heart Is A Muscle" by our good friends Invisible Twin (Mario and Rose from Shoestrings). Dylan Mondegreen's self-titled album is still available on LP, CD and digital formats via Shelflife Records [...]

Here's the official video for Everything Goes Quiet in the End taken off the fab new Bart and Friends EP It's Not the Words That You Say released today! The video was directed by Claude Cardenas and features Paisley Fried and Janet Sanchez. You can stream the entire EP below: ORDER NOW

Airiel are hitting the road today and heading east. Don't miss your chance to see them! 8/16 @ P.A.'s Lounge - Somerville, MA (w/ Soccer Mom, Kestrels, 28 Degrees Taurus) 8/18 @ Cake Shop - New York, NY (w/ Screen Vinyl Image, The Stargazer Lilies, Luxa) 8/19 @ Strange Matter - Richmond, VA [...]

"Open Arms" is the first single from The Garlands upcoming self-titled LP coming this fall! Download it for free!

Download "It Takes Two" from the new Dylan Mondegreen album (coming Sept 25th)!

Very excited to announce Ian Catt will now be producing The Proctors upcoming album on Shelflife! Ian has worked on legendary records from Saint Etienne, The Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars, and Northern Picture Library - to name a few. Ian has also just completed production on another future Shelflife release, which we'll be announcing very soon.

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Airiel's "Kid Games" is released today on 123 vinyl and mp3! We are streaming the entire EP below. Order a copy here! Enjoy!

We welcome another new international addition to the Shelflife family, Picnic , who are one of Estonia's brightest groups. To celebrate the occasion, the band recorded this special limited edition 73 featuring their take on two of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written - "We've Only Just Begun" by Roger Nichols and Paul Williams and "Say a Little Prayer" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Picnic formed in 2006 by Marju Taukar, Andres Soosaar and Rivo Jaervsoo. Marju and Andres were previously in 90s indie band Dreamphish and Rivo is a current member of [...]

The Proctors have had a busy start to 2012 already. They're fresh off their London Popfest performance and are now heading to Madrid . In the meantime, they put together a new digital single "I Need To Tell You," which also includes one of our favorite tracks "Perfect World." The single is a teaser for their new album, which is slated to come out on Shelflife later this year. You can download it now for free just by entering in your e-mail address. Enjoy! [...]

Order Burning Hearts "Extinctions" on limited 180 gram vinyl, cd or digital formats in North America on Shelflife and world-wide on Solina Records.

Here is The Holiday Crowd's brand new music video for their single "Pennies Found." The video, directed by visual artist Matthew Sitler, was filmed entirely on his iPhone. Order their debut "Over the Bluffs" on limited 123 vinyl, cd or digital formats in the US on Shelflife and world-wide on New Romantic .

I can't believe it's already mid-December and already time for top 10s of 2011. This year has been a complete blur. In putting this post together, I completely forgot about so much music that came out this year. I'm sure it's no surprise that I've reformatted this list numerous times. I have left out some previous top 10 favorites (Digitalism, Washed Out, Korallreven, among others) as their records all kind of lost their spark for me. Top honors this year goes to "Weathering" by Epic45 . I absolutely adore this record! On first [...]

The debut single "Two Rings" from the Ice Choir is officially released today in the UK/EUR through Yesboyicecream and in the US through Shelflife . Here's the official video for the track directed by Ryan Louie. Order here!

Days celebrated their very first US performance this last weekend at the NYC Popfest. The show was simply incredible. As a bonus, they were invited to do a live studio session and interview for Grey Skies at WNYU. Thanks Brian for setting that up. The entire session is available for download below. Enjoy! Free Download

Burning Hearts debut the title track and video from their upcoming EP "Into The Wilderness", out June 21 on Shelflife. Preorder the EP now! The Alaskan tundra and the wild bears I am returning to that nightmare Life and death are given a different meaning in grizzly kingdom above the treeline where the permafrost's growing deeper I could never climb those mountains, I could never be sleeping safely under the same stars as timothy Into the [...]

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