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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 2d

📀 @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social are playing two in-stores on their upcoming tour, in Atlanta on 10/11 at @criminalrecordsatl.bsky.social and in Denver on 10/25 at Wax Trax!

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 2d

📍 ready for @ekkoastral.bsky.social with @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social + @puptheband.bsky.social in portland tn 😈 😈

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 2d

✨ FIRST @tbirdthanyaiyer.bsky.social Europe tour starts tomorrow at VoxHall in Aarhus, DK in support of La Luz ~ all tour tickets here: linktr.ee/thanyaiyer 🪀

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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 4d

ekko astral @jael.bsky.social
pup
jeff rosenstock
at the fox

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 2d

it is time

ekko astral @ekkoastral.bsky.social · 2d

breaking news. 10 22 25 @topshelfrecords.com

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 5d

grab it on @bandcamp.com today if you wish 🍂

Taurus, by Peel Dream Magazine

8 track album

peeldreammagazine.bandcamp.com

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 5d

"𝑻𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒖𝒔 is PDM's best record yet, and the one that sounds most like him."

some really kind words on the new @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social mini-album out this week ~ thanks @brooklynvegan.bsky.social 💌

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 5d

‼️dispatch from TSR HQ: if you ordered a recent repress of Toe's masterclass debut album 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒊𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒗𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒙𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚, they're currently shipping out & will arrive to you soon 📦

"deer glisten" variant LPs still available on our site + @bandcamp.com + devildogdistro.com in the UK 🐈‍⬛

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 5d

Included in the tracklist are incredible songs from Topshelf family @tbirdthanyaiyer.bsky.social "In the Olive Tree" and Ava Mirzadegan (ft. @jasoncalhoun.bsky.social) "Carolina Wren" — both available to listen to in full now, before the compilation’s full release on October 28.

FREE PALESTINE

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 5d

🕊️ Support “Songs of Hope for Gaza” on Bandcamp Friday today, a 33-song compilation of original music written in solidarity with the people of Palestine, co-released by @dearliferecs.bsky.social + prettypurgatory.com, curated by Lisa/Liza, with 100% proceeds to @aneraorg.bsky.social. Pre-order below.

Songs of Hope for Gaza, by Pretty Purgatory

33 track album

prettypurgatory.bandcamp.com

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 6d

thank you @brooklynvegan.bsky.social for including @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social 🍂

BrooklynVegan @brooklynvegan.bsky.social · 7d

Indie Basement: Best Songs & Albums of September 2025 www.brooklynvegan.com/indie-baseme...

Indie Basement: Best Songs & Albums of September 2025

Featuring: Saint Etienne, Kneecap, Dry Cleaning, Gruff Rhys, Suede, Cate Le Bon, Baxter Dury, Sleaford Mods, and more of September's best stuff.

www.brooklynvegan.com

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 6d

Reminder that @ekkoastral.bsky.social has a few midwest headline dates coming up in mid-October after their tour with PUP and Jeff Rosenstock ends 🔥

If you're in Lawrence, St. Louis or Indianapolis, get to the gig ~ tickets here: linktr.ee/ekkoastral

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Peel Dream Magazine @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social · 7d

Our new mini album Taurus is out today! Featuring 8 new tracks from the Rose Main Reading Room sessions. Available on cassette and digital at the link in our bio

@topshelfrecords.com

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 7d

🌀 Headline @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social tour starts next week in Austin TX! This show is a dream, don't miss it. Visit the band at the merch table & pick up a 𝑻𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒖𝒔 tape IRL.

Tickets: linktr.ee/peeldreammag...

Tour flyer by Chris Adams 🛤️
Press photo by Vice Cooler 🕶️
Album art by Liz Moser 🪶

Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 7d

Head to our website to grab @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social's 𝑻𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒖𝒔 on cassette & add it to your @bandcamp.com collection. The merch bundle includes a Bradley Pinkerton-designed shirt. Black sold out online but limited quantities will be available on tour!

↳ www.topshelfrecords.com/products/869...

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 7d

Very happy release day to @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social and their new mini-album 𝑻𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒖𝒔, a gorgeous and welcoming companion piece to its predecessor LP. Listen in full at the link below.

⋆｡˚🌿•✧˖°🐂｡𖦹⋆🍃✧°.

RIYL: Stereolab, Air, Belle & Sebastian, Julia Holter, Jessica Pratt, blue sky Nat-Geo pop!

Listen to Taurus by Peel Dream Magazine

Although unbound by genre, Peel Dream Magazine still inhabit the sonic milieu of warm woodland tones and droning repetition. In the entrancing standout “Believer,” they evoke Rose Main Reading Room’s ...

www.topshelfrecords.com

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 12d

big news for Weatherday heads 🩸 the band recently stopped by WNYU to record a session on their most recent tour, and it's goooood. songs from both their debut 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙄𝙣 and its follow up 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 that we released in March

WEATHERDAY | ALIVE IN THE BASEMENT | WNYU

YouTube video by WNYU

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 12d

the following week, @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social leave for a headline tour starting 10/8 in austin! tickets here ~> linktr.ee/peeldreammag...

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 12d

🕊️ @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social's new mini-album 𝑻𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒖𝒔 out next wednesday oct 1!

listen to "Venus in Nadir" and pre-order here ~ www.topshelfrecords.com/listen?filte... (exclusively available on a limited run of yellow cassettes)

Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 20d

It’s almost hard to believe Peel Dream Magazine are from Southern California, so thoroughly does “Venus in Nadir” summon the bookish, lovelorn, and profoundly overcast spirit of classic UK label Sarah Records

Unrequited Indie Rock for People Who Read in Bed

Plus club music from Saturn’s freakiest ring, Jeff Tweedy resurrects Lou Reed, and more

www.hearingthings.co

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 21d

Peel Dream Magazine let loose the sprightly strummer “Venus In Nadir.” Sun dappled and sweetly stung, the new single pairs hushed vocals with the skip-hop of keys. It finds the band at their most hummable, feeling like Kings of Convenience dipped into the E6 inkwell. bit.ly/46qOKDY

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 12d

💛 thank you @getalternative.bsky.social for reviewing the new @manekadevin69.bsky.social single "yung yeller" ~ 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔 & 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔 out october 29

listen + pre-order at www.topshelfrecords.com/listen?filte...

Track Review: Maneka – "yung yeller" - The Alternative

Mol reviews "yung yeller," the latest single from Maneka's upcoming third LP, and Topshelf Records debut, 'bathes and listens'

www.getalternative.com

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 12d

💛 thank you @getalternative.bsky.social for reviewing the new @manekadevin69.bsky.social single "yung yeller" ~ 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔 & 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔 out october 29

listen + pre-order at www.topshelfrecords.com/maneka

Listen to bathes and listens by Maneka

The album’s ambitious denouement, "5225," is a slowburning build around knotted guitar, steadily crescendoing to a moment of chaotic clarity that centers a boisterous, unexpected solo. "5225" momentar...

www.topshelfrecords.com

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 13d

"a nearly 30 track compilation from one of the best songwriters doing it" ... "rapping of the very, very highest order"

💌 thank you @willschube.bsky.social for the love on the new Mal Devisa record 𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒂.

Subscribe to The Hobbyist substack! ⤷ open.substack.com/pub/schubeth...

Here is What Was Bumping at Club Hobbyist in August

My favorite albums and singles from the month that ended almost a month ago (sorry)

schubethehobbyist.substack.com

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+rcmndedlisten @rcmndedlisten.bsky.social · 14d

You’ll want to grab an autumn sweater to keep yourself warm for when you eventually find yourself just as lonely as @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social do on "Venus In Nadir".

The lead single off the Los Angeles art-pop trio's new mini album 'Taurus', out 10/1 on @topshelfrecords.com: lnk.bio/s/f8faf

Peel Dream Magazine – “Venus In Nadir”

You’ll want to grab an autumn sweater to keep yourself warm for when you eventually find yourself just as lonely as the Los Angeles art-pop trio…

lnk.bio

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Topshelf Records @topshelfrecords.com · 14d

out Oct 29, @manekadevin69.bsky.social's new record 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔 is available in a 3 beautiful LP variants (galaxy red, tri-color black/aqua/mint, heavyweight black), as well as CD + metallic pink tape!

pre-order a copy here: www.topshelfrecords.com/products/867...

'bathes and listens' LP mockups, showing "tascam red" (galaxy red vinyl), "shallowing" (tri-colored color in color black/aqua/mint vinyl), and a 180g Black vinyl

CD + metallic pink cassette tape 'bathes and listens' mockups

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