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June 24, 2025

Week three of seven in the Gulls Window Circus New England series continues with vinyl releases, both LP and compilations on Throbbing Lobster, Modern Method, Arf! Arf!, and Conflict/Radiobeat. That will cover tracks by Busted Statues, Beanbag, Sorry, Moose And The Mudbugs, Kenne Highland, The Oysters, The Underachievers, Christmas, Wild Kingdom, 21-645, Chain Link Fence, Noise Pencil, and La Peste. On. The LP front, you will hear November Group, Morphine, Robin Lane & The Chartbusters, ‘Til Tuesday, Leah Callahan, Scruffy the Cat, O Positive, Richie Parsons, Mini Dresses, The Secret Stars, Doug Tuttle, The Neighborhoods, Betwixt, Combustible Edison, The Screaming Pope, The Modern Lovers, Karate, Salem 66, and Helium. Much goodness within.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
November Group	I Live Alone	Persistent Memories	Brain Eater
Morphine	French Fries With Pepper	Live At The Warfield 1997	Run Out Groove
Robin Lane & The Chartbusters	I Don’t Want To Know	Robin Lane & The Chartbusters	Warner Bros. Records
‘Til Tuesday	Don’t Watch Me Bleed	Voices Carry	Epic
Leah Callahan	The Red Eye	Even Sleepers	Baraca
Scruffy the Cat	Shadow Boy	Tiny Days	Relativity
O Positive	Weight Of Days	Only Breathing	Throbbing Lobster
Richie Parsons	Blue Sands	Honey And Tears	Lawless Records
Mini Dresses	Emily	Mini Dresses	Joy Void
The Secret Stars	Sister…Brother	Genealogies	Shrimper
Doug Tuttle	Weak Ends	Pinecone	Wild Honey Records
The Neighborhoods	It All Makes Sense	Fire Is Coming	Mustang Records
Betwixt	Stop & Start	The Salty Tang	Woodside Records
Combustible Edison	Carnival Of Souls	Forbidden Isle Of Demos	Modern Harmonic
The Screaming Pope	Ganymede	The Old Silk Road	Gaia Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Modern Lovers	Old World	The Modern Lovers	Sanctuary
Karate	Sever	Unsolved	Numero Group
Salem 66	Seven Steps Down	Salem 66	Homestead Records
Helium	Baby’s Going Underground	The Dirt Of Luck	Matador
Busted Statues	Blue Cheer	Bands That Could Be God	Conflict Records
Beanbag	Harassment	Bands That Could Be God	Conflict Records
Sorry	One More Step	Bands That Could Be God	Conflict Records
Moose And The Mudbugs	Crawfish With A Vengeance (Revisited)	These Dogs Live In The Garage (The Arf Arf Music Sampler Volume II)	Arf! Arf!
Kenne Highland	Money	These Dogs Live In The Garage (The Arf Arf Music Sampler Volume II)	Arf! Arf!
The Oysters	Headhunters	Mr. Beautiful Presents All Hard	Modern Method Records
The Underachievers	I’ll Be There For You	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
Christmas	Our Mutual Friend	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
Wild Kingdom	The Way To Love	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
21-645	Red Red	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
Chain Link Fence	The Happening	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
Noise Pencil	Weirton, West Virginia	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
La Peste	Lease On Life	A Wicked Good Time!	Modern Method Records

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June 17, 2025

Week two of seven in the Gulls Window Circus New England series continues with vinyl LP tracks, going back in time as far as Taxi Boys (pre-Real Kids) and up to Swirlies from their 2018 LP and The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries from their 2021 LP. Lots of 80s and 90s records and lots of well-known bands of punk [Nervous Eaters, The Mighty Ions, Lemonheads, Tommy Gun & The Hit Squad, La Peste, Unnatural Axe], post-punk [Neats, Native Tongue, Mission Of Burma, Turbines, The Young Snakes, Vitamin, Band 19, The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries, The Neighborhoods, Pixies, Swirlies], garage [The Real Kids, Lyres, Taxi Boys] and hardcore [Negative FX, Straw Dogs, SSD, Psycho, Wrecking Crew, Red Bliss, Kudgel, P.T.L Klub, Outpatients, Slapshot, The Proletariat].

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Neats	Same	The Monkey’s Head In The Corner Of The Room	Ace Of Hearts Records
Native Tongue	Speaking In Captions	Native Tongue	Détente Records
The Real Kids	Can’t Talk To That Girl	Outta Place	Star Rhythm Records
Nervous Eaters	I’m A Degenerate	Eaterville #2	Penniman Records
Mission Of Burma	Dumbells	Mission Of Burma	Taang! Records
The Mighty Ions	Pedro Morales	Face Rakin’ Rock	Alien Snatch! Records
Lyres	Buried Alive	AHS 1005	Ace Of Hearts Records
Lemonheads	Sunday	Creator	Taang! Records
Taxi Boys	Bad To Worse	Real Kids / Taxi Boys – Girls! Girls! Girls!	Lolita
Turbines	That’s The Way	Last Dance Before Highway	Big Time
The Young Snakes	Give Me Your Face	Bark Along With The Young Snakes	Ambiguous Records
Vitamin	Sinner	Recordings 1981	Don Giovanni Records
Out Of Band Experience	Genius	Call Now! 1-800-OUT-BAND	Immortal Records
Out Of Band Experience	1-800-OUT-BAND	Call Now! 1-800-OUT-BAND	Immortal Records
Negative FX	Mind Control	Negative FX	Taang! Records
Straw Dogs	In Deep	We Are Not Amused	Restless Records
SSD	How We Rock Intro	How We Rock	Modern Method Records
SSD	How We Rock	How We Rock	Modern Method Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Band 19	No Why	Dictate	Modern Method Records
La Peste	Leave Me Alone	Better Off Dead	Rave Up Records
The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries	After You	Suns Out Guns Out	Ernest Jenning Record Co.
Tommy Gun & The Hit Squad	Hail To The Chief!	Hail To The Chief!	Spit Records
The Neighborhoods	The Man I Don’t Want To Be	A Tribute To Unnatural Axe – Ruling The World From The Backseat	Lawless Records
Unnatural Axe	Youth Corps	Is Gonna Kick Your Ass	Alternative Action Records
Psycho	No Way	Hosebags From Hell	Ax/ction Records
Wrecking Crew	In Your Head	Balance Of Terror	Hawker Records
Red Bliss	Towels	Fishkill	Axis Records
Kudgel	Pallet Jack	Sea Monkee	100% Breakfast!
P.T.L Klub	Real Thing	13 Comandments	Mystic Records
Outpatients	The Necessary Piece	Free Association	Incas Records
Slapshot	Show The Way	Step On It	Taang! Records
The Proletariat	Bread And Circus	Soma Holiday	Radiobeat Records
Pixies	Dead	Doolittle	4AD
Swirlies	In Harmony Newfound Freedom (Part Time Punks Session)	Swirlies’ Magic Strop: Tonight…	Sneaky Flute Empire

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June 10, 2025

Week one of seven in the Gulls Window Circus New England series. Most of the bands are Boston-based, but the allowance for neighboring states [ME, RI, NH, VT, CT] was added to allow inclusion of some very worthy bands. The first three weeks are vinyl-only, and last two weeks are CD-only. As usually, Gulls Window Circus only plays physical product [would love to play cassettes, but my player gave up the ghost]. This series focuses on bands that appeared during or after the punk revolution. There are a ton of 80s release, many 90s releases, some 70s, and some post-00 bands. Sperm Bank Babies = Will Alexander, Chord Rockers & Future Dads = Richie Parsons, Hypnosonics are Morphine related (you probably knew all that!). Now lets listen and discover some new music.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Billy Bacon	Boss City	Billy’s Revue	Memoire Music
The Sperm Bank Babies	Jack	The Sperm Bank Babies Featuring Al “Lorenzo” Drake	Varage Records
The Bags	What Do You Want?	Rock Starve	Restless Records
E	The Projectionist	Negative Work	Thrill Jockey
The Chord Rockers	Subway	Salaria	Surfin’ KI Records
Girls	Pedestrian Walk	Reunion	Brasch Music
The Gore Hounds	Serenade	Halloween Everywhere	Alien Cactus Records
The Blackjacks	Dead Flowers	Dress In Black	Throbbing Lobster
Big Dipper	What In Sam Hill…?	Boo-Boo	Homestead Records
The Fools	She Makes Me Feel Big	World Dance Party	PVC Records
The Dawgs	Chicken	My Town	Star Rhythm Records
Peter Dayton	Stuck On The Same Refrain	Love At 1st Sight	Shoo-Bop Records
Future Dads	Tree Outside	24 Winship	Rave Up Records
The Flies	Fall Into Your World	The Flies	Czech Records
Eighth Route Army	Outside My Window	Nihilist Olympics	1 Dimensional Records
Bullet LaVolta	Over The Shoulder	Bullet LaVolta	Taang! Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The J. Geils Band	No Doubt About It	Ladies Invited	Atlantic
The Del Fuegos	Missing You	The Longest Day	Slash
Dogmatics	Everything Went Bad	Everybody Does It	Homestead Records
Dumptruck	Friends	For The Country	Big Time
Gang Green	I’m Still Young	Older… Budweiser	Emergo
F.U.’s	We’re An American Band	My America	Xclaim!
Cancerous Growth	Had Enough	Late For The Grave	Ax/ction Records
Fat Day	Cleft	My Name Is I Hate You	100% Breakfast!
DMZ	Mighty Idy	DMZ	4 Men With Beards
Human Sexual Response	Pound	In A Roman Mood	Passport Records
Hypnosonics	Where’s The Girl	Someone Stole My Shoes: Beyond The Q Division Sessions	Modern Harmonic
DYS	Closer Still	DYS	Modern Method Records
Neutral Nation	Streets	It’s A Bash	Bigbone Records
GingerBread Men	Battle Bones	Witches House	Gull Records
Executioner	Break The Silence	Break The Silence	New Renaissance Records
Jerry’s Kids	Twisted Brain	Kill Kill Kill	Taang! Records
Kilslug	Tart Cart	Answer The Call	Taang! Records

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June 3, 2025

The third of 3 weeks of CD shows has Gulls Window Circus’s first interview in ages – at the start of the second hour The Yellow Melodies talk about their ‘Pleasant Dreams’ record, which is a song-by-song Ramones cover record. That should not reduce excitement about the other tracks. Every single track is a thrill that it would be a shame for you to miss. Florida’s The Stargazer Lilies are here from a Part Time Punks session, Oslo faves Mats Wawa are here (just announced a new record!), Wreckless Eric is here as The Len Bright Combo. The Strait-Jackets (Allen Esser just released a Primitive Romance CD) are here. Catalonia duo Tarta Relena and another track from the impossible-to-find Catamount CD appear as well.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Silver Jews	Let’s Not And Say We Did	Bright Flight	Drag City
Chris Stamey	The Great Escape	The Great Escape	Schoolkids Records
Catamount	Been There All Summer	No Joy in Hurrayville	no label
The Royal Opposition feat. Lynn Blakey & Mitch Easter	Room With A View	Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Celebrating The Winston-Salem Sound	Omnivore Recordings
Zorch	Cosmic Gloss (radio edit)	Zzoorrcchh	Sargent House
The Stargazer Lilies	We Are The Dreamers	Part Time Punks Sessions	Casa del Puente Discos
Tarta Relena	El Suïcidi I El Cant	Fiat Lux	La Castanya
10¢	Red Rubber Ball	Buggin’ Out!	Hi-Ho Records
Throwing Muses	Shimmer	MSN On Air	Microsoft
The Stroppies	Look Alive	Look Alive	Tough Love Records
Russ Tolman	Yuba City	Goodbye El Dorado	Lost Records
Thin White Rope	Red Sun	When Worlds Collide	Munster Records
The Strait-Jackets	Fool Protection	The Strait-Jackets	Strait-Jacket Records
Gary Valentine	Infatuated	Amor Fati	Not On Label
Vinyl Devotion	Aren’t You Bored California	If They Know You’re Trying	Widely Distributed Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Yellow Melodies	7-11	Pleasant Dreams	Discos Imprescindibles
The Yellow Melodies	Come On Now	Pleasant Dreams	Discos Imprescindibles
The Yellow Melodies	The KKK Took My Baby Away	Pleasant Dreams	Discos Imprescindibles
Julienne Clark	Girl Don’t Come	Dream Girls At Direct!	Blaamm! Records
Mats Wawa	Bed Of Love	Classics EP	Not On Label
The Bubble Gum Machine	You Make Everything Right	Senate Single Collection	Area251 Records
Paula Wayne	It’s A Happening World	It’s A Happening World	Area251 Records
The Windmills	Pounds, Shillings And Pence	Sunlight	Matinée Recordings
Weekend With Keith Tippett	Nostalgia	Live At Ronnie Scott’s	Cherry Red
Irmão Victor	Tristinha	Mariposario	Pop Supérette
Charlie Rodriguez	It’s Alright	Senate Single Collection	Area251 Records
The Veees	On The Road	The Veees	Environmental Studies
The Len Bright Combo	Lureland	Wreckless Eric Presents The Len Bright Combo By The Len Bright Combo	Fire Records