December:

1. Split System – No Cops in Heaven/Pull the Trigger 7” (2025)
2. Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – Gorilla (1967)
3. Larry & the Jerks – Kicked in the Head by Joe Devola (2024)
4. Citric Dummies – “Split With Turnstile” (2025)
5. The Paris Sisters – Sing Everything Under the Sun (1967)
6. Angel Face – Out in the Street (2025)
7. Premier Lawn Service- Pissed Off EP (2025)
8. Half – HALF Live Demo (2025)
9. Candypants – Candypants (2000)
10.  Glueman – Glueman III (2025)
11.  Outside View – 2025 Cuts (2025)
12.  Spooky Visions – Unraveled EP (2025)
13.  The Chocolate Watchband – The Inner Mystique (1968)
14.  Country Christmas with Buck Owens, Glen Campbell, Ferlin Husky, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Sonny James, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (1967)
15.  Ray Conniff and the Ray Conniff Singers – We Wish You a Merry Christmas (1962)
16.  Dean Martin – The Dean Martin Christmas Album (1966)
17.  Baby Tyler – Sucker with a Dream (2025)
18.  Freak Phone – Demo (2025)
19.  Shitcontrol – Hungriga, Frusna och Lamslagna (2025)
20.  Proglottid – Bodies Change to Dust (2018)
21.  Electric Light Orchestra – A New World Record (1976)
22.  DISPO – “Idüll” (2025)
23.  Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments – Negative Guest List (1994)
24.  Laughing Corpse – Beyond Recognition 7” (2025)
25.  Cheap Fix – Re-animator Blues 7” (2025)
26.  Giustino DiGregorio – Sprut (1995)
27.  Tive – 恥部 (2022)
28.  Coffin Lids – Live Trash (Abbey Lounge Records) “The Nice Price” (2005)
29.  Sabrina Carpenter – Man’s Best Friend (2025)
30.  Bang! Bros – Hard Rocks Volume 1 (2012)
31.  Itches – House Animal Included (2025)
32.  Les Rallizes Dénudés – Heavier Than a Death in the Family (2002)
33.  Institute – Salt EP (2014)
34.  Hickey – Us vs Them 7” (1995)
35.  Enuf – Demo (1988)
36.  Doc Corbin Dart – Patricia (1990)

I don’t have a year ender for you yet! I’m still compiling that; stay tuned! In the meantime, this is what I listened to for the first time in December. Lots of Christmas music! I got a few new records this year. Dean Martin, Ray Conniff, a sweet Country compilation, in addition to all the usual classics I enjoy!

Angel Face’s Out in the Street was probably my favorite! No surprise with members hailing from the legendary Japanese Garage Punk outfit Teengenerate! I thought it was better than their previous releases. Not as fiery and messy as Teengenerate, but some sick, impressive Power Pop. Gritty and I saw them at Gonerfest in 2024 and we actually met them at the airport. Super kind! Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments is a band I’ve been meaning to listen to forever and have only done in bits and pieces over the years. I finally listened to a whole album! It was awesome! What have I been smoking this whole time? New Bedford icon Mike Mountain’s favorite! Scuzzy, not quite right, but fees too good to be wrong noisy rock and roll comparable to fellow Ohioans Pagans as well as Pussy Galore. To quote Marge Simpson “I Just Think they’re neat.” Freak Phone is a newer local band (Portland, ME) I have my eye on! I’ll see them at Midway on 1/31 and I hope to book them myself in the new year!

Happy New Year fuckers, suckers, bozos, jokers, smokers, uppers, downers, dinos, winos, dryjanuaryers, and keeping wet dreams alive. I’ll be posting my year enders soon enough. Maybe even a movie year ender????? Who knows?! Cheers! – Chris