December 2010
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Free Song Download
Our label, Panic Records, just launched a free download of tracks from all of the recent and upcoming Panic releases. There’s a free song from us and a bunch of excellent bands on the label, so do check it out and support these bands! Also, for the vinyl lovers, Panic is doing a contest where if you share the digital sampler, you get entered to win a free record player. Not too shabby....
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Van Johnson - S/T LP
Van Johnson was a band from Ottawa, Canada. Van Johnson did a lot of touring, released a split 7” with Kaospilot on Level-Plane, a 7” on Fire Walk With Me, and an LP on Intimate Space. This is a solid contribution and an awesome record. Unfortunately Van Johnson broke up in 2005. RIYL: Raein, Daitro, Off Minor
The first batch made have hand stenciled covers and backs. When Intimate...
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Burnt by the Sun: Soundtrack to the Personal...
Burnt by the Sun is a band that I saw many times back in the day, but never came to fully appreciate until recently when a good buddy started a band with the bassist. Peaked my curiosity and I dove back into this album. Found it over the weekend for a really good price and couldn’t resist. If you don’t like heavy music, this one might not be up your ally, but hey, never know! RIYL:...
Favorite Albums of 2010
The nice peeps at Indiependent Music asked Andy & Aaron to send over their favorite albums of ‘10.
You can check out the lists right here.
Agree? Disagree? What were some of your favorites this year?
Holiday Merch Sale (Free Shirt, CD's)
Hey all, super quick update about merch. To get in the holiday spirit, we just launched a sale in our merch store. If you order any LP from the store, you get a free TSL shirt. If you order a CD, you get another CD free. More info here.
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Daughters - s/t
This one really caught me off guard. Daughters have always been a great band, but as my tastes have changed over the years, they kind of slipped off of my radar. Until now. The funny thing is, I have a hard time pinpointing exactly why I love this album so much. It’s -for lack of a more intelligent phrase- completely fucked. Like, really fucked. Like bad acid trip while being trapped at a...
You Will Not Survive on AbsolutePunk.net's Best of...
Really excited (and flattered) to discover that our new record You Will Not Survive got some love from AbsolutePunk.net’s Best of 2010 staff list. Click on Chuck’s face to check it out.
Live Video Interview & Chat Next Week
Next Tuesday night, Dec. 28th, @ 10pm EST, we’re going to be doing a live video interview on the interwebs. You’ll be able to type questions at us as well, which we will attempt to answer. Technology. The Google. Magic.
More info here
and the white (striped) whale has come home.
this post is a little special for me, as most record collectors can attest, we all have that “white whale” record, that one you have been searching for and hoped to own for awhile but it has been eluding you, no matter how many shitty(and awesome) record stores you go to, countless hours logged on the electronic bay, you simply can not find it.
for me that record, or in this case...
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Street Smart Cyclist - Demo 7"
Back in 2007 Street Smart Cyclist recorded an awesome demo and Our Neighbor Records put it out. First time I saw them was when one of my older bands played with them in a garage in New Jersey on their first tour with Storm The Bastille. They showed up after the show ended and somehow we managed to get everyone to come back and catch their set. This is one of my favorite 7”s and is always a...
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TSL vinyl addiction submission - Matmd - make it...
When we started this blog a few weeks back, we wanted to open it up so that people reading it could submit their own records that they’re excited about. Not much rhyme or reason to the selection, to be fair we’re just gonna go through all the submissions periodically and pick a few at random to publish. Here’s one that came in for a band called midi & the modern dance- who...
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Kvelertak- s/t
After much searching, finally got my hands on Kvelertak’s s/t full length on wax- one of my favorite album of 2010 and the 1st metal album to get me excited in quite a long time. Awesome eclectic metal from Norway. Thrashy at times, huge dirty 70’s rock sleaze riffs at others, black metal tendencies beneath it all. Sounds weird I know but highly recommended. Artwork was done by John...
lsbhadlfjbnaslurgwiqebhasd-deac asked: Will you post on tumblr more details about the split with We Were Skeletons as they happen?
TSL/We Were Skeletons Split EP →
topshelfrecords:
Putting out records from your friends’ bands is just the best! So, we’re really extremely excited to announce that we will be releasing two brand new split EP’s for Lancaster, PA’s We Were Skeletons in early 2011. Topshelf released the band’s latest full length self-titled effort in…
soundaslanguage:
Best of 2010: #7 The Saddest...
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Daitro - Y
Have to thank Chad from Pianos for turning me onto this record via his blog stokingtheroots.com. I’ve heard the Daitro name for years but never actually checked them out until Y. Such an excellent album all the way through. So much so in fact that it’s one of the albums I’ve listened to the most this year. I’ll probably butcher it if I try to describe what it sounds like,...
soitsaq asked: honored for the follow friends. :D two things. 1) i appreciate all the work you put into playing music. seriously. i've only been listening to you for a couple of months thanks to my good friend Dan (superomega.tumblr.com), but I can never say how much I, and probably everyone else who enjoys your music, am grateful that you made music such a big part of your life, even if school and jobs get...
You Will Not Survive LP's/CD's
Quick band-related post for those asking: we now have You Will Not Survive CD’s back in stock in our store. We have the new Panic press as well as a few remaining CD’s from the 1st Cover Your Heart press. If you pre-ordered the CD from Panic, they have all now been shipped.
On the LP front, we have a few copies left of the 1st press of the You Will Not Survive LP left from what we...
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Hope Con, NOFX, Tragedy, Energy
Hit up the NYC Punk + Underground Record Fair yesterday in Brooklyn and picked up a few things. It was rad being able to shop from two of my favorite stores (Red Scroll & Double Decker) from the comfort of my own city for once - both stores had distros set up at the fair! Here’s what I snagged:
1) Hope Conspiracy: Death Knows Your Name LP
Been looking for the 1st press of this one for...
Tips for DIY Vinyl Pressing/Our Top 5 Vinyl...
Andy gave 5 tips on pressing vinyl for DYI artists over at AbsolutePunk, along with a few of our combined top 5 vinyl releases from 2010: http://bit.ly/fNBW08
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Nails - Unsilent Death
The way I got into this band/release is kind of atypical in the sense that I became curious to check it out after reading it had an ex member or members of some bands I never really go too into. Make sense? Yeah, didn’t think so. But, what sparked my curiosity was that the description -something along the lines of “complete sledge hammer brutality” - was NOT something I...