Category Archives: rock

#717

March 10, 2026

This Gulls Window Circus show covers lesser-known rock bands 1995-1999 that released stellar songs, without finding larger exposure. Nothing here is sub-par, the only thing that was missing for these bands was a lot of ears, something this show hopes to rectify.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Randy Herman And The Sceptre Of Benevelonce	Rock ‘n Roll Loser	Healthy Hair	Bunnycake Records
Individual Fruit Pie	You’ve Been Seen	Release Me	Dot Dot Dash
Iris	Gone	After School Special	Bubble Core Records
Kante	Highway	Zwischen Den Orten	Kitty-Yo Int.
Sicko	Little	Chef Boy RU Dumb	Empty Records
China Drum	Somewhere Else	Self Made Maniac	Mantra Recordings
W.O.W.	The Ocean	One Hit Wonder	One Hit Wonder
Bag Of Panties	Time is Tight	Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day	Not On Label
Hybrasil	Massive Breeder	Friendly Destroyer	Bam Records
Three Mile Limit	Let Me Play The Fool	Floating Off Somewhere Else	Bridgefolk Records
The Multiple Cat	High School Girls	“Territory” Shall Mean The Universe	Zero Hour
Strung Out	Monster	Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues	Fat Wreck Chords
Swank	You Piss Down	The Swill Of It All …	Curve Of The Earth
The Prissteens	Sorrow	The Prissteens	Almo Sounds
Bali Girls	A Love Song	A Housewife’s High	Spork!

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March 3, 2026

A Gulls Window Circus vinyl rock show with tracks from 1983-1986, so closely scoped. There is China Crisis, The Church, Violent Femmes, and ABC (sounding like Roxy Music) that you will know, The Dream Syndicate and True West from the paisley underground peak, and a bunch of others that your ears will enjoy: Agent Orange, New Math, The Dots, The Eastern Dark, Do It Now!, and E-I-E-I-O. Be sure to treat yourself to them.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Violent Femmes	To The Kill	Violent Femmes	Slash
Agent Orange	Somebody To Love	When You Least Expect It…	Enigma
New Math	Power Of The Air	Gardens	Brain Eater
The Dots	In Another World	Return Of The Dots	Rebel Rec.
The Dream Syndicate	John Coltrane Stereo Blues	This Is Not The New Dream Syndicate Album… Live!	A&M Records
True West	At Night They Speak	Drifters	PVC Records
The Church	Already Yesterday	Heyday	Warner Bros. Records
China Crisis	Gift Of Freedom	Flaunt The Imperfection	Virgin
The Eastern Dark	Over Now	Long Live The New Flesh!	What Goes On Records
Do It Now!	Fugitive From The Grey	“Pay Later”	Talkcrest
E-I-E-I-O	Get Back To Arkansas	Land Of Opportunity	Frontier Records
ABC	Love’s A Dangerous Language	Beauty Stab	Mercury
BoDeans	Fadeaway	Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams	Slash

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February 24, 2026

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Sods	Ice-Age For Awhile	Under En Sort Sol	Medley Records
Echo And The Bunnymen	Stars Are Stars	Crocodiles	Sire
Walter Steding	Shout	Walter Steding	Red Star Records
Harry Kakoulli	Waiting	Even When I’m Not	Oval
Pete Townshend	Jools And Jim	Empty Glass	UMC
The Chords	Dreamdolls	So Far Away	Polydor
Klark Kent	Away From Home	Klark Kent	I.R.S. Records
Codek	Demo	Me, Me, Me	MCA Records
Chrome	Eyes On Mars	Red Exposure	Beggars Banquet
Die Doraus Und Die Marinas	Einkauf	Blumen Und Narzissen	Ata Tak
Adam And The Ants	Mile High Club	Prince Charming	CBS
The Police	Hungry For You (J’Aurais Toujours Faim De Toi)	Ghost In The Machine	A&M Records
The dB’s	Espionage	Stands For Decibels	Albion
Ric Ocasek	Jimmy Jimmy	Beatitude	Geffen Records
Startoon	Affectionate Type	Summer Volcano	Anamaze Records
Christiana	Suechtig	Final Church	Supermax

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February 17, 2026

Gulls Window Circus slashes into your classic rock perceptions by presenting a show that excavates rock sounds that belong in the now-era, lovingly blending a tasty but unlikely stew in the circle of included artists/bands.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Paul Simon	Paranoia Blues	Paul Simon	Columbia
Johnny Winter	Boney Moroney	Saints & Sinners	Columbia
Joe Walsh	Mother Says	Barnstorm	Dunhill
The Edgar Winter Group	Queen Of My Dreams	Shock Treatment	Epic
Yes	The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)	Fragile	Atlantic
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band	Anthem	The Impossible Dream	Vertigo
Eno	In Dark Trees	Another Green World	Editions EG
Todd Rundgren	Happenings Ten Years Time Ago	Faithful	Bearsville
Foghat	Take Me To The River	Night Shift	Bearsville
Uriah Heep	Sunrise	The Magician’s Birthday	Mercury
Pavlov’s Dog	Fast Gun	Pampered Menial	ABC Records
Slade	Look Wot You Dun	Sladest	Reprise Records
Dr. Feelgood	Nothin’ Shakin’ (But The Leaves On The Trees)	Sneakin’ Suspicion	Columbia
The Clash	Last Gang In Town	Give ‘Em Enough Rope	CBS
City Lights	Travelin’ Man	Silent Dancing	Sire

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February 10, 2026

A rock vinyl Gulls Window Circus show that starts off with a Tucker Zimmerman track (RIP Jan 2026) before entering an 80s (7 tracks) & 90s (6 tracks) balanced out with a Sundowners track from 2009. A nice listen that touches on a lot of different sounds.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Tucker Zimmerman	Nobody Knows (feat. Big Thief)	Dance Of Love	4AD
Neil Young & The Bluenotes	Can’t Believe Your Lyin’	This Note’s For You	Reprise Records
Acetate Zero	Steward Version	Softcore Paradise	Orgasm
The Embarrassment	Beautiful Day	God Help Us	Bar/None Records
The Daintees	Roll On Summertime	Roll On Summertime	Kitchenware Records
The Apples In Stereo	Strawberryfire	Her Wallpaper Reverie	Earworm
Dot Allison	Mo’ Pop	Mo’ Pop	Heavenly
Allez Allez	Allez Allez (Original Mix)	Allez Allez	Eskimo Recordings
Close Lobsters	Just Too Bloody Stupid	Foxheads Stalk This Land	Enigma
Dustdevils	Encient	Rhenyards Grin	Rouska
Sundowners	Golden Circles	Gnome & Glacier	Dirt Cult Records
Dwarves	What Hit You	Blood Guts & Pussy	Sub Pop
Dog Faced Hermans	Lie And Swell	Those Deep Buds	Alternative Tentacles
Algebra Suicide	Sinister	The Secret Like Crazy	RRRecords
Steaming Coils	Golding Operations	The Tarkington Table	Motiv Communications

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February 3, 2026

A vinyl rock Gulls Window Circus show that has two from 1969 (Nick Drake and Scott Walker), six from the 70s (George Harrison, Brian Eno, Carole King/Maurice Sendak, Joe Walsh, Hawkwind, King Crimson), one from 1986 (Talking Heads) and three from 2025 (silver biplanes, Saint Etienne, Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno). Listen and see how they all fit together.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
silver biplanes	Coming Up For Air	Coming Up For Air	Precious Recordings Of London
Saint Etienne	Two Lovers	International	Heavenly
King Crimson	Cirkus (Including: Entry Of The Chameleons)	Lizard	Panegyric Recordings
Hawkwind	We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago	X In Search Of Space	Atomhenge
Scott Walker	Big Louise	Scott 3	Mercury
Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno	Part Of Us	Liminal	Verve Records
Joe Walsh	Happy Ways	The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get	Analogue Productions
Nick Drake	River Man	Five Leaves Left	Island Records
Wilco	Should’ve Been In Love	A.M.	Rhino Records
Talking Heads	Dream Operator	True Stories	Sire
Carole King	Ave. P	Really Rosie	Ode Records
Brian Eno	Here He Comes	Before And After Science	Astralwerks
George Harrison	Don’t Let Me Wait Too Long	Living In The Material World	Dark Horse Records
Nico	Lawns Of Dawns	The Marble Index	Domino

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January 27, 2026

The first show in Gulls Window Circus new one hour duration plays rock vinyl, concentrating on blending era, popularity and geography. In a single show you will hear Candy, The Grave Digger 5, The Stiffs, The Hollywood Stars, Wildfire, Grinderman and Cam Couple alongside institutions such as Chris Stamey, The Cars, Thin Lizzy, The Yardbirds, David Bowie & Mick Jagger, 13th Floor Elevators, Rolling Stones and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. They sit together quite comfortably, as you will hear today.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Chris Stamey	Meet Me In Midtown	Anything Is Possible	Label 51 Recordings
The Hollywood Stars	Taxi Driver	Starstruck	Sioux
The Stiffs	Inside Out	Demos And Rarities 1978-1981	Projectile Platters
Candy	Somebody Else	Sweet Treats	Projectile Platters
The Cars	You Are The Girl	Door To Door	Elektra
Thin Lizzy	The Hero And The Madman	Vagabonds Of The Western World	Decca
Wildfire	Time Will Tell	Smokin’	Out-Sider
The Yardbirds	What Do You Want	Beck’s Blues the defining sound of Jeff Beck with the Yardbirds	Charly Records
David Bowie & Mick Jagger	Dancing In The Street (Instrumental)	Dancing In The Street	Parlophone
Grinderman	(I Don’t Need You To) Set Me Free	Grinderman	BMG
13th Floor Elevators	Roller Coaster	Live Houston Music Theatre ’67	Culture Factory
Rolling Stones	Whole Wide World	Live At Racket · NYC	Rolling Stones Records
The Grave Digger 5	All Black And Hairy	Cavestomp! The Garage Rock Festacular! Presents A Torrent Of Talent! Volume One!	ORG Music
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Little Miss Strange	Electric Ladyland	Experience Hendrix
Cam Couple	Flutes Go Hard	Meet The Frombees	Kissing Kobra Records

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January 20, 2026

A return to rock vinyl on Gulls Window Circus after the 8 week The 2000s series: lots of interesting tracks from many eras, many from recent reissues, plus new music from Black Helicopter from their Balancing Act LP, plus the debut 7″ from Cam Couple, the latest project of John Hugh Dickey (Pie, Verst, Richard Bitch), and two recent Harriet Records releases, by Jim’s Twenty-One and The Ekphrastics. I also play a track each from Dave Formula (Magazine, Visage) and Mozart Estate (Lawrence from Felt and G-Kart Mozart). Special mention goes to the Philip Lester track from The Direct Records Story Vol. Three compilation.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Donnas	Don’t Wait Up For Me	Bitchin’	Real Gone Music
The Lemonheads	The Turnpike Down	It’s A Shame About Ray (30th Anniversary)	Fire Records
Coloured Balls	Going Down	Summer Jam	Just Add Water
Drop Nineteens	Happen	Delaware	Wharf Cat Records
Better Than Ezra	Je Ne M’en Souviens Pas	How Does Your Garden Grow?	Real Gone Music
Kate Bush	James And The Cold Gun	The Kick Inside	Fish People
Mozart Estate	Donna And The Dope Fiends	Tower Block In A Jam Jar	Cherry Red
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Wild God	Wild God	Play It Again Sam
Lou Reed	Lady Day	Berlin	Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Lamb	Barbara’s Soul	An Extension Of Now: Unreleased Recordings 1968-1969	Real Gone Music
Jonathan Richman	Just Because I’m Irish	You Must Ask The Heart	Craft Recordings
Black Helicopter	Paralyze	Balancing Act	Best Brother Records
The Von Bondies	Been Swank	Pawn Shoppe Heart	Rhino Records
The Lovely Basement	Lowlands	Lowlands	Precious
The Loves	Boom-A-Bang-Bang-Bang	Live At The BBC	Precious Recordings Of London

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Dislocation Dance	I Just Need A Friend	Road To Happiness	Marina Records
The Pogues	Rain Street	The Best Of The Pogues	Pogue Mahone Records
The Stranglers	Sometimes	Stranglers IV (Rattus Norvegicus)	Parlophone
Warren Zevon	Nighttime In The Switching Yard	Excitable Boy	Rhino Records
Morgen	She’s The Nitetime (Alernate Take)	Morgen	Now-Again Records
The Windmills	Taxi Fare	Sunlight	Matinée Recordings
The Cherry Boys	Falling (12″ Session)	Kardomah Café	Good Time Records
Philip Lester	Start This Thing Over	The Direct Records Story Vol. Three	Direct Records
The Ekphrastics	This Month at the Roman Bros. Gallery	All Of A Sudden, Pow!	Harriet Records
Dave Formula	Elvis In Space	Satellite Sweetheart	Wire-Sound
Jim’s Twenty-One	Something’s Going Wrong	Nadine	Harriet Records
Cam Couple	Meet The Frombees	Meet The Frombees	Kissing Kobra Records
Park Doing	New Rock Candle 2	The Origin Of Radar	Brightspark Records
Elf Power	The Arrow Flies Close (Live)	The Elephant 6 Recording Co.	ORG Music
Bottle Rockets	Wave That Flag	Bottle Rockets	Real Gone Music

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November 18, 2025

A Gulls Window Circus rock show that completes the recent run of CD rock shows before starting a new 8 week series ‘The 2000s’ next week. Aside from carefully chosen tracks by artists/bands we know, I dug out a few very under-the-radar discs by Gutterboy , ESS, Hellpop, and Johnny Barnes. They are fun to hear, but the main tracks are where the gold lies. The Ramones covering The Animals, Pale Man Made from Newcastle, Überhund from California, and a lot of others including among others Tin Machine, Harlan T. Bobo, The Rosslyns, Torn Sail, and The Stroppies.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Malcolm Ross With The Delancy St. Group And The Magic Clan	Home Street	Low Shot	The Bus Stop Label
The Mystery Trend	Carl Street	So Glad I Found You	Big Beat Records
The Honey Pot	Almost Exactly Beautiful	Inside The Whale	Mega Dodo
Lloyd Meadows	False Senses	Oxford Synthesiser Club	The Beautiful Music
The Stroppies	Sad Sorry Soul	Look Alive	Tough Love Records
Joe Kafka	First Down In The Serengeti	Too Young For The Blues	Harriet Records
Holiday	Just Follow	Cafe Reggio	spinART Records
Kevin Rowland	Rag Doll	My Beauty	Cherry Red
Mazolewski / Porter	Six Feet Under	Philosophia	Wydawnictwo Agora
Thin White Rope	Ruby Sea	When Worlds Collide	Munster Records
Russ Tolman	Do You Like The Way	Goodbye El Dorado	Lost Records
Harlan T. Bobo	Sirens	A History of Violence	Goner Records
Hellpop	Tin Can Honeymoon	Penny Dreadful	Waterproof Fish Records
The Goops	Change Your Mind	Lucky	Warner Music Group
Johnny Dowd	Shack	Homemade Pie	Mother Jinx Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Rosslyns	There’s Always Next Year	All We Ever Did Was Try	Harriet Records
Überhund	The Referee	Terrible Obstacles	Cream Cloud Records
Johnny Barnes	I Got Plans for You	Plan B from Outer Space	Nightcrawler
Ramones	When I Was Young	Acid Eaters	Radioactive
Torn Sail	Consider Your Position	The Horizon Is On The Horizon	Delia Recordings
Bonnie Dobson	The Bonnie Lass Of Kenmore Town	Dear Companion	Big Beat Records
Everything But The Girl	Troubled Mind	Amplified Heart	Atlantic
Mark Fry	Down Narrow Streets	Dreaming With Alice	Now-Again Reserve
ESS	Rossfield	Rossfield	ESS
The Ferocious Few	Crying Shame	Juices	Birdman Records
Pale Man Made	Fluoride	Inchberry Sweet Rocket	Pinch Records
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin	Suave And Suffocated	Are You Normal?	Chaos
Gutterboy	A Rainy Day On Mulberry St.	A Rainy Day On Mulberry St.	DGC
Tin Machine	Amlapura	Tin Machine II	Victory

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November 11, 2025

A Gulls Window Circus rock show that starts off in a pop melodic mode, then has a brief foray into Downtown art scene rock, before settling on punky stuff that keeps the melodies strong even as the loudness goes up. Special attention to the Angel Corpus Christi cover of Theme From Taxi Driver, Robert Gordon’s Eddie Cochran cover, Chris Stamey’s Beach Boys cover, Jeff Dahl’s Dead Boys cover (and Dead Boys themselves with the Cheetah Chrome mix of Big City), The Damned’s version of Help, Eddie And The Hot Rods with MC5’s Rob Tyner as lead vocalist, Peter Bagge’s band Can You Imagine?, Defunkt’s track In The Good Times, and the Dictators/BOC-related band David Roter Method.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Flames	Fine Line	The Flames	Hit Records
Artful Dodger	Think Think	The Complete Columbia Recordings	Real Gone Music
The Hollywood Stars	Sleeping Giant	Starstruck	Sioux
Can You Imagine?	Steve Says	Can You Imagine?	Can You Imagine?
The Social Icons	Stay	I’m There…You’re Here	The Beautiful Music
The Mommyheads	Race Car Brain	No Quietus	Fanfar!
Chris Stamey	Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)	Anything Is Possible	Label 51 Recordings
Roy Moller	Belong	Hindsight	The Beautiful Music
Dream Unit	A Drop In The Ocean	All The Young Droids – Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985	NIGHT SCHOOL
Defunkt	In The Good Times	Defunkt+ Thermonuclear Sweat+	Hannibal Records
Dog Eat Dog	Rollover	Dog Eat Dog	Claremont 56
The Flying Lizards	The Window	The Flying Lizards / Fourth Wall	RPM retrodisc
Crushed Butler	High School Dropout	Uncrushed: First Punks From The British Underground 1969-1971	RPM Records
Jeff Dahl	Ain’t Nothin’ To Do	I Kill Me	Triple X Records
The Damned	Help	The Stiff Singles 1976-1977	Castle Music
Dawson	Chuckleberry	Cheese Market	Gruff Wit Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Dead Boys	Big City	3rd Generation Nation	Bad Boy Records
Debris’	One Way Spit	Debris’	Anopheles
Dicks	Sidewalk Begging	These People	Alternative Tentacles
The Dictators	Weekend	Go Girl Crazy!	Epic
David Roter Method	Coney Island Baby	Find Something Beautiful	Unknown Tongue Music
Dim Stars	Monkey	Dim Stars	Caroline Records
Ian Dury & The Blockheads	Sweet Gene Vincent	Warts ‘N’ Audience (Live: 22 December 1990.)	Demon Records
The Hammersmith Gorillas	Shame Shame Shame	Gorilla Got Me	Big Beat Records
Angel Corpus Christi	Theme From Taxi Driver / New York New York	The 80’s	Gulcher Records
Robert Gordon	Twenty Flight Rock	Black Slacks	Bear Family Records
The Flatmates	Turning You Blue	Heaven Knows	The Subway Organization
Gruppo Sportivo	Rock ‘n Roll	Back To 19 Mistakes	Ariola
Eddie And The Hot Rods	Till The Night Is Gone (Let’s Rock)	Life On The Line	Captain Oi!
Hard-Ons	Sorry	Hard-Ons & The Celibate Rifles – Where The Wild Things Are	Festival Records
The Gizmos	Mean Screen	1976/1977: The Studio Recordings	Gulcher Records
Eater	My Business	The Album	Anagram Records