#Shelflife Records

[joanofarc]

about you, the shermans (2001).

i'm sad to say i'll use you as the proof that people never change they just get better at hiding who they are

[mymelodic-chapel]

Brittle Stars- Brittle Stars (Twee Pop, Indie Pop) Released: September 1999 [Shelflife Records]

[bandcampsnoop]

7/15/23.

Soft Science (Sacramento, California) combine indie pop with a shoegazey instrumentation. I can't help but think of Say Sue Me or Stars on Fire. And speaking of Sacramento, there's a bit of Tiger Trap happening here. This is being released by Shelflife, Spinout Nuggets and Fastcut Records.

Our good friend Eric turned me onto another Sacramento band - The Baddest Beams. They don't have a physical release (yet). Kind of reminds me - lyrically at least - of Black Country, New Road.

The Sacramento music scene is just like the heat dome currently hovering over it - hot, hot, hot!

[daggerzine]

MY FAVORITE RECORDS OF 2023! (lists in no particular order....well, sort of)

MY 20 FAVORITE RECORDS OF 2023  

Anna Hillburg- Tired Girls (Speakeasy Studios)

RVG- Brain Worms (fire) 

The Tubs- Dead Meat (Trouble in Mind) 

Seablite- Lemon Lights (Mt St Mtn)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples- The Town That Cursed Your Name (Slumberland)

Lewsberg- Out and About (12XU)

Melenas- Ahora (Trouble in Mind)

Blues Lawyer- All in Good Time (Dark Entries) 

Colored Lights- S/T (Bobo Integral)

Doe St- Stepping Stones (Legless) 

Guardian Singles- Feed Me To The Doves (Trouble in Mind) 

Corvair - Bound To Be (WIAIWYA)

The Garment District- Flowers Telegraphed To All Parts of the World (HHBTM)

Royal Ottawa- Carcosa (self released)

Tough Age- Waiting here (Bobo Integral)

Soft Science- Lines (Shelflife)

The Midnight Sailors- S/T (self released)

Robert Forster- The Candle and the Flame (Tapete) 

Civic – Taken By Force (ATO) 

Sumos- Surfacing (Meritorio) 

WAIT….HERE’S 20 MORE!

Connie Lovatt- Coconut Mirror (Enchante’)

En Attendant Ana- Principia (Trouble in Mind) 

Withered Hand- How to Love (Reveal) 

The High Water Marks- Your Next Wolf (Minty Fresh)

The Feelies- Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground (Bar-None)

Connections- Cool Change (Trouble in Mind) 

The Ex Bats- Song Machine  (Goner)

The Photocopies- Top of the Pops (Ultra Modern)

Amanda Brown- Eight Guitars (Lillipilli) 

Arthur Alexander- …Steppin’ Out!  (Big Stir Records)

Eyelids- A Colossal Waste of Lights ((Jealous Butcher) 

Panic Pocket- Mad Half Hour (Skep Wax)

Yo La Tengo- This Stupid World (Matador)

Swansea Sound- Twentieth Century (Skep Wax)

Kevin Robertson- Magic Spells Abound (Futureman)  

Super 8- Hoopla (The Beautiful Music) 

The Radio Fields- Dos and Dont’s (Subjangle)

Joe McAlinden- Where The Clouds Go Swimming (self -released)

The Black Watch- Future Strangers (ATOM) 

Rob I Miller- Companion Piece (Vacant Stare)

….AND HERE’S 10 MORE

The Lost Days- In the Store (Speakeasy Studios) 

Life Strike- Peak Dystopia (Bobo Integral)

Belle & Sebastian- Late Developers (Matador)

Lauds- Imitation Life (Fort Lowell) 

The Hepburns- Only the Hours (Lavender Sweep) 

Lomma- Torrey Pines (self released)

C.O.F.F.I.N.- Australia Stops (Goner)

Special Friend- Wait Until the Flames Come Rushing In (Skep Wax)

Burning Ferns- World of the Wars (Country Mile)

Wojtek the Bear- Second Place on Purpose (Last Night From Glasgow)

I ALSO REALLY LIKED ALBUMS BY:  Diners, Moving Targets, Bill Orcutt, Skull Practitioners, the Suncharms, Divine Horsemen, The Flashcubes, Hurry, Teenage Fanclub, Lydia Loveless, The Make Three, Shana Cleveland, The Ekphrastics, Ryan Allen, Fruit Bats, Nicole Yun, Dippers, Lost Film, Tony Jay, Cindy, Class, The Clientele, Lemon Twigs, Sweeping Promises, The National Honor Society, The Whiffs, Infinite River, Silver Biplanes, Jason Isbell, The Cuticles, Mudhoney, Alex Lahey, Crocodiles, Peter Hall, Cherry Fez, The Angles, Scott Gagner, Mainland Break, Christian Kjellvander, Sick Thoughts, Grand Drifter, The Motifs, The Sunshine Convention, The 1981, Roy Moller, Youth Valley, Soft Covers, Deadlights, The Smashing Times, The Spires, Helen Love, Motorbike, Silverstiles, Water Damage, Uni Boys, The Royal Arctic Institute, Gina Birch, Gee Tee, etc.

MY  10 FAVORITE REISSUES OF 2023 

The Chills- Brave Words (Fire)

The Replacements- Tim (Sire)

The Ocean Blue- Davy Jones Locker (Korda)

Wild Carnation- Tricycle (Delmore) 

Neutral Milk Hotel- The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel (Merge)

Das Damen- 1986- Keeps Me Wild (Dromedary)

Heavenly -Le Jardin de Heavenly (Skep Wax) 

The Verlaines- Bird Dog (Schoolkids Records) 

The Toms- S/T (Feel It) 

Celibate Rifles  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Bang!)

MY 15 FAVORITE EPS OF 2023 

Lightheaded- Good Good Grief (Slumberland)

Minor Threat-  Out of Step outtakes (Dischord)

The Cucumbers- Old Shoes (self released)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples- Unloveable Losers (digital) 

The Vapour Trails- On a Beautiful Day (Futureman)

Blues Lawyer- Sight Gags on the Radio (Dark Entries)

Deary- S/T (Sonic Cathedral)

The Wends- Better Will (WWNBB) 

Te Vista- S/T  (Cripes) 

Red Sleeping Beauty- From Sarah With Love (Matinee)

Letting Up Despite Great Faults- Crumble (S/T) 

The Prize- Wrong Side Of Town   (Anti Fade) 

Touch Girl Apple Blossom- S/T (self released)

Galore- Blush (Paisley Shirt) 

Lost Tapes- Crossing Towns (Shelflife)

MY 5 FAVORITE COLLECTIONS OF 2023 

The Particles- 1980’s Bubblegum (Chapter Music)

Primal Scream- Reverberations (Travelling in Time) (Acid Jazz/XTRM/Young Tiki)

The Shapiros- Gone by Fall: the Collected Works of (World of Echo) 

Dot Dash- 16 Again (Country Mile)

Comet Gain- The Misfit Jukebox (Tapete) 

Eric "Eggman" Eggleson's favorite records of 2023!

A Colossal Waste Of Light - Eyelids

Aeterna - Vinyl Williams

Away From The Castle – Video Age

Babydoll – Rat Columns

Bananasugarfire – Golden Apples

Careless By The Coast - Marvin Powell

Cartwheel - Hotline TNT

Colored Lights

Compact Trauma – Ulrika Spacek

Continue As A Guest – The New Pornographers

Disenchanter - Alaska Reid

EP IV – Yumi Zouma

Flowers Telegraphed To All Parts Of The World – The Garment District

Henry St. - The Tallest Man On Earth

Hindsight is 50/50 – Ghost Woman

I Held The Shape While I Could – Bodywash

Javelin – Sufjan Stevens

Left Hand - Becca Mancari

Life and Life Only - The Heavy Heavy

Love as Projection – Frankie  Rose

May Cause Dizzy Ness - The Musical Chairs

My Entire Life – SUSTO

Pearlies – Emma Anderson

Perennial - Woods

Pictures – Dean Owens

Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) - Yves Tumor

Prize - Rozi Plain

Radio Red – Laura Groves

So Soon Now – Trillion

Strange Loops and Outer Psyche – Andy Bell

Suntub – ML Buch

The Greater Wings - Julie Byrne

The Natural Lines

The Queen Is Not Dead – Spiritual Front

the record – boygenius

The Sunshine Convention

The Twits - bar Italia

This Candle Is For You - Spearmint

Waiting Here – Tough Age

We Live In Strange Times – Ian M Bailey

When Horses Would Run - Being Dead

[shortgremlinman]

i uploaded a little lost media i recovered

citra super is a band that was on gainesville pop mayhem with que possum. small amount of obsession later and bam.

[digitalsignagee]

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Foschini Group

Built It

Markham

Hansgrohe

Totalsports

American Swiss

Lakids by Burlow

Archive

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[noloveforned]

no love for ned is back on the holiday train after ten years! tune into wlur at 8pm tonight for four hours of holiday hits. we'll be rebroadcasting the 2012 holiday show at 8pm followed by two hours of new holiday hits at 10pm. if you miss it tonight, don't fear as they'll both re-air (in reverse order) next friday!

last week was the annual 'best of twenty year ago' show. over the course of four hours we heard from over sixty different records released in 2002. if you enjoyed the show, you can also check out the previous six retrospective shows spotlighting 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996 and 1995.

no love for ned on wlur – december 9th, 2022 from 8pm-midnight

artist // track // album // label evil wiener // koo koo // evil wiener presents billy sugarfix's lost gumdrop kingdom // smith level tullycraft // twee // beat surf fun // magic marker dressy bessy // there's a girl // sound go round // kindercore luna // lovedust // romantica // jetset spoon // the way we get by // kill the moonlight // merge the guild league // jet set... go! // private transport // matinée the national splits // afternoon was tight // the national splits // kittridge dear nora // on to september // the new year ep // magic marker darren hanlon // hiccups // hello stranger // candle belle and sebastian // scooby driver // storytelling // matador bikeride // fakin' amnesia // morning macumba // hidden agenda masters of the hemisphere // anything, anything // protest a dark anniversary // kindercore the sinking ships // out of key harmony // out of key harmony // darla track star // feet first // lion destroyed the whole world // better looking esg // it’s not me // step off // soul jazz yo la tengo // nuclear war (version two) // nuclear war ep // matador the blow // jet ski accidents // bonus album // k ugly casanova // things i don't remember // sharpen your teeth // sub pop vermont // ballad of larry bird // calling albany // kindercore matt pond pa // measure three // the green fury // polyvinyl azure ray // the new year // burn and shiver // warm electronic aarktica // nostalgia = distortion // or you could just go through your whole life and be happy anyway (bliss out, volume eighteen) // darla sigur rós // vaka // ( ) // mca múm // green green grass of tunnel // finally we are no one // fat cat the notwist // one with the freaks // neon golden // domino family fodder // tender words // tender words ep // dark beloved cloud flin flon // chicoutimi // chicoutimi ep // teenbeat the capricorns // the new sound // in the zone // paroxysm the apples in stereo // rainfall // velocity of sound // spinart the flaming lips // fight test // yoshimi battles the pink robots // warner bros. of montreal // jennifer louise // aldhils arboretum // kindercore jason anderson // astronaut, astronaut! // something/everything! // k sleater-kinney // oh! // one beat // kill rock stars rhett miller // this is what i do // the instigator // elektra guided by voices // back to the lake // universal truths and cycles // matador elvis costello // forty-five // when i was cruel // island brendan benson // you're quiet // lapalco // startime the arrogants // the distance between us // nobody's cool ep // shelflife cinerama // careless // torino // manifesto saturday looks good to me // diary // love will find you // whistletap acid house kings // sunday morning // mondays are like tuesdays and tuesdays are like wednesdays // labrador the brunettes // holding hands, feeding ducks // holding hands, feeding ducks // lil' chief mirah // cold cold water // advisory committee // k destroyer // this night // this night // merge june panic // see(ing) double // baby’s breadth // secretly canadian doleful lions // surfside motel // out like a lamb // parasol unbunny // swans are fainting // black strawberries // two-ton santa julie doiron // all their broken hearts // heart and crime // jagjaguwar jeffrey lewis // the chelsea hotel oral sex song // the last time i did acid i went insane // rough trade little wings // look at what the light did now // light green leaves // k lambchop // the daily growl // is a woman // merge beck // guess i'm doing fine // sea change // dgc johnny cash // hurt // american iv: the man comes around // american richard buckner // born into giving it up // impasse // overcoat songs: ohia // blue factory flame // didn’t it rain // secretly canadian the mendoza line // the triple bill of shame // lost in revelry // misra okkervil river // westfall // don't fall in love with everyone you see // jagjaguwar the mountain goats // the best ever death metal band in denton // all hail west texas // emperor jones dqe // i'm your girl // i'm your girl // dark beloved cloud swearing at motorists // this flag signals goodbye // this flag signals goodbye // secretly canadian low // in the drugs // trust // kranky

[parkerbombshell]

The Charles Motorbike Show Sept 1

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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods— a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from “JWR”. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. Today, we look at grocery supply chain issues in Europe. Empty Supermarket Shelves in Germany As western Europe begins a winter with scant fuel: Empty shelves as German supermarkets resist price hikes. An excerpt: “With German inflation running at a record 10 percent, supermarket giants are pushing back against what they see as unreasonable price increases by some of the world’s best-known brands. Food multinationals argue that their manufacturing costs have risen on the back of soaring energy and transport costs, in part because of the war in Ukraine. But retailers in Europe’s top economy say they are protecting customers’ purchasing power at a difficult time, and that price hikes of up to 30 percent in some cases are overblown.” Supermarket Shelves Picked Bare in England The London Times reports: Supermarket shelves picked bare as bargain hunters shop around. And here is a related news piece: British Grocery Stores Are Stocking Empty Shelves with Cardboard Cutouts of Food. JWR’s Comment: Ay, ay, ay… Tesco no tengo. Que lastima! Mixing Your Own Lidocaine Reader M.M. wrote: “This is just informational. I’m not giving any medical advice. But this might be interesting for folks. As I understand it, 1% lidocaine has a limited shelf life. It is basically lidocaine powder mixed with 0.9% normal saline. 1% is the typical concentration we use for procedures and surgeries.  Thus, 1 g of powder in 100 cc of saline. I believe the powder does not have similar shelflife limitations. I personally stock a fair amount of the powder, which I purchased over-the-counter online without a prescription. Mine came in a mylar bag hermetically sealed. It was fairly inexpensive and I bought 250 grams. Honestly, I don’t recall exactly where I purchased it, but a quick search shows numerous vendors. One can always make 0.9% normal saline up on the fly, with salt and sterile water by weight, and make the solution. Keep in mind that if you screw up the dilution, it can cause serious heart arrhythmias and potentially death.  That is, not recommended except for as a last resort. Again, this is informational and academic only. I’m not providing medical advice. Thought you might find it interesting.  Something that could be potentially useful in the event that modern medicine is not available to you.” Google’s Election Campaign Tampering Google Caught Manipulating Search, Buries GOP Campaign Sites in 83% of Top Senate Races. Magnitude 5.1 Earthquake Rattles S.F. Bay Area Reader H.L. sent us this: Magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattles San Francisco Bay Area, the largest to strike the region in years. The piece begins: “A magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, shaking buildings and marking the strongest quake the region has seen in eight years.” Lawsuit Might Spell the End of Internet Archive Publishers, Internet Archive Ready for Summary Judgment Hearing in Book Scan Case. Less Than 1 in 100M Chance COVID Has Natural Origin From vlogging commentator Matt Christiansen: New Study: Less Than 1 in 100M Chance COVID Has Natural Origin | Fauci-Funded Scientists Deny. 21 States Oppose Covid Vaccine Mandates in Schools 21 States Where the CDC’s Push to Get Covid Vaccines Mandated in Schools is ‘Dead-on-Arrival’. EU Policies Destroying Energy Sources in Midst of Crisis EU countries agree to hike climate change target next year.  JWR’s Comments: Western Europe is in its worst shortage of liquid fuels since the Second World War,.And now the EU member nations are scheming ways to “reduce greenhouse gasses” compounding their energy deficit. What absolute insanity!

Pandemic, Russian Threats Prompt Swedish Preppers A video news segment on the left-wing PBS: Pandemic, Russian threats prompt Swedish doomsday preppers. — You can send your news tips to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Thanks!

[theeboyracer]

2021, a year in records - October 27th

[joanofarc]

sleepyhead, casino ashtrays (2004, 2011).

you ask me to repeat myself do you like what i've just said? or is it because that i mumble, you call me sleepyhead?

[abductionradiation]

Los Angeles, CA -- Always You (fka Ablebody) will be releasing their new album Bloom Off The Rose on July 16 via Shelflife Records / Discos de Kirlian. Last week, they shared their new single “Crimson Red,” a sweet, reflective track that spans just under 4.5 minutes long. From the gentle sways of the vocals to the steadiness of the dreams, Always You creates mellow instrumental layers that gives “Crimson Red” the perfect glimmer of hope. There’s a certain soft, rosiness to the track that gives it an indulgent dreaminess that you can’t help but love.

On the track, Always You explains "'Crimson Red' is a song about the push and pull of expectations and the unhealthy ways we manage them. It grapples with the narratives we craft and the barriers we put up between us to avoid the fear of vulnerability. Uncertainty can bring about impulses to sabotage and bring clarity to a situation by putting it to the test. This song is about bravery and taking a chance on love, carrying the weight of two and loudly celebrating the beauty the other can no longer see.”

Bloom Off The Rose by Always You

Connect with Always You:

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5/6/23.

Over two years ago, we posted about Athens, Greece band Youth Valley. They had released a 7" on Greek label Make Me Happy Records. The single did well, and now here's Youth Valley releasing a full album on both Make Me Happy and U.S. label Shelflife.

This is still great jangle indie in the vein of The Dears, The Smiths and Northern Portrait. While you're at Shelflife, be sure to listen to The National Honor Society. It gives off similar vibes and sounds to Youth Valley.

[daggerzine]

Throwback Thursday #46!- V/A- Pop American Style (March Records, 1996)

By the mid-90’s the indie pop scene was bursting worldwide with new bands seemingly popping up everywhere, issuing new 7” singles every day. The American scene was no different with bands all over the place and compilations of all shapes and sizes (I even issued my own compilation, Popular World comp, on my very short-lived Sky Blue Records imprint in 2000). 

Jack “Skippy” McFadden’s March Records label had been going for a few years by this point and he had released some truly fine stuff (that Holiday debut is still one of my faves) so he threw his hat in with a comp of his own. But this wasn’t just any old comp, this one was a 2-disc set (with K-Tel being an influence) of too many great songs to name, finding bands in just about every outpost of America.

The record starts with Shoestrings and their impossibly lovely “Summer Days” (they released a very fine sophomore album a few years ago on Shelflife) and then right into the Rocketship classic, “Hey Hey Girl” then onto the Cuddlecore (not my term) of Cub (with “Howard”) and on to the suave pop of the previously-mentioned Holiday with “It’s Only Love.”

40 songs spread out over two discs with more great cuts coming via Heartworms (a side project of Archie from Velocity Girls), Allen Clapp  his Orchestra, My Favorite (with the brilliant “Go Kid Go”) and Poundsign with the superb “Starry Night.”

Who else? further, Vehicle Flips, Holiday Flyer, Aberdeen, the Push Kings, Elf Power, Tullycraft and too many more. It really did seem like the comp to end all comps and I played it for days/months.

If you missed this the first time around then head on over to Discogs where you can find a copy for a very reasonable price

**side note- a few years later Skippy released Moshi Moshi: Pop International Style with a 2-cd compilation of bands, as the title suggests, from the USA and around the globe. Not quite the eye-opener that this comp was but still pretty damn good.

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Audio: Dream Pop Duo Whimsical Share Trip Hop-like "Quicksand"

New Audio: Dream Pop Duo Whimsical Share Trip Hop-like "Quicksand" @Whimsical_band @ctpublicity @shelflife

https://soundcloud.com/whimsicalband/8-whimsical-quicksand/s-8XAmNDPHe1N Split between Indiana and Florida, dream pop/shoegaze outfit Whimsical — currently Krissy Vanderwoude (vocals) and Neil Burkdoll (guitar, production) — can trace their origins back to 1995 when Vanderwoude and Burkdoll met while attending high school in Indiana. At the time, Burkdoll, along with Andy Muntean (drums) were…