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Playlist Archive
7/16/25 - 7/23/25
Vacation! Yay! Hooray! Yay!
7/9/25
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Sundots
Getting Away (2025)
Werewolf - AMAZON
Methods – Methods (2025)
Zoo Front
National Disgrace 47 (2025)
Forty Winks
liadfh – Love Is a Dog from Hell (2025)
The Sawtelles
Margins – Postcards (2025)
Reale Wolfe
New Madison Blues – Dirty Pool (2024)
The Striped Bananas
Venus Die Trap – Vampire of Mine (2025)
Northfield - AMAZON
It’s Too Easy (2025)
Asher Kai
Bone Pick II – Eyes of the Lamb (2024)
Brooke Dougan - AMAZON
Brain (2023)
The Bargain
Sweetly – Do Each Other (2024)
Mercy Choir
West Coast Time – Do Each Other (2024)
Believe It, It’s Easy
Missing Him – You Can Believe It Too (2025)
Chistopher Cavaliere
Ghost of Fun – Big Wheel Plus (2024) – Bridgeport
Greenholt
Mistakes – Head on Straight (2020)
Knife Kickers
jorsE – scratch 2 (2025)
7/2/25
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Lys Guillorn
How To Cook a Wolf – Winged Victory (2013)
Brian Ember
Tomorrow Looked Better Yesterday – Thank you (2024)
The Almighty Yellow Star
Passing Through a Self – The Almighty Yellow Star (2025)
Brian Larney
Why Should I Care? (2025)
The Alex Butter Field
(I’m In The) Sunshine State – Popsychle (2020)
The Sawtelles
Beat the Odds – Crash 23 (2025)
Sarah Dunn
Cottagecore Lesbian Daydream (2024)
Dog Pound Interview (June 2025)
Ovlov
Strokes – Buds (2021)
Showgirl
Teeth (2024)
Ruby Leftstep
Bitter End (2025)
6/18/25 - 6/25/25
Vacation! Yay! Hooray! Yay!
6/11/25
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The Backyard Committee
Mistaken Identity – Surf Hotel Ghosts (2020)
Eddie Golden III
Diamonds – Elevator (2016)
Pat Stone and the Dirty Boots
Weary Traveler – Long Way Home (2018)
Valley of Kings
The Distance – Vicory Garden (1985)
Catrick
Dandelion (2024)
An Historic
Can’t Stop Shaking (2025)
T!lt
Stick Out Your Tongue – Terra (2025)
Spray Bottle Fever
war dogs – icarus (2024)
Venus Kiss
Jessica Wester (2025)
The Foresters
The Tenement Sweep – House Stories (2017)
Old Milk Mooney
Dreams (2025)
Boyscott
Cabin Fever – Spellbound (2024)
Audio Jane
The Mark – We Always Make a Mess of Things (2024)
Ginger Bug
North Child – My Magnolia (2024)
Discount Fireworks
Dear Jessica – Discount Fireworks (2023)
6/4/25
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The Backyard Committee
Born on a Leap Year – Surf Hotel Ghosts (2020)
T!lt
Praise – Terra (2025)
The Alex Butter Field
Gardener – Psychedelipop (2020)
The Damien Pratt
Mike Wallace – From the Tapes of Lenny Bruce, Volume 2 (1998)
Boyscott
Rocky Road – Spellbound (2024)
Lazy Trail
Drips (2024)
Eddie Golden III
Dream – Blazed (2020)
The Ambulance Chasers
Robin – TOO! (2025)
Pocket Vinyl
Audio Sickness – Rabbit on Fire (2024)
Pilm
hrsgrl (2024)
SG Carlson
Spangled Sun – Sing the Hits (2020)
AP Flynn
FOMO – Visitor (2024)
Sentiments
Mediocre Diary Days – Rot (2023)
Slow Pines
Lament for Clara Barton – Something You Could Never Have (2024)
Playlist Archive
5/28/25
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The Backyard Committee
The Way You Do – Surf Hotel Ghosts (2020)
Mother Juniper
Carolina – Write the Soil Lighter (2023)
Stadia
Instant Echo (2024)
Asher Kai
Reword – The Beast (2023)
MGMT
Nothing To Declare – Loss of Life (2024)
Figurine
Daughter Language – Worthy (2021)
The Ambulance Chasers
Robin – TOO! (2025)
Lys Guillorn
Steel Pier – Lys Guillorn (2003)
Shining Bones
Spore (2025)
Old Milk Mooney
Brick by Brick – Do Not Worry (2024)
Flowers from Tea
Love Again Demo (2023)
Sarah Dunn
Cottagecore Lesbian Daydream (2024)
A.F. Chimes
Stab Love – Stab Love (2023)
MJ Bones
Spade – This Machine Loves You (2025)
Xavier Serrano
Run for Your Life – Bell Chimes of Yesteryear (2019)
Playlist Archive
5/21/25
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Miracle Legion
Just Say Hello – Drenched (2016)
Carey
Daily – Stunted (2025)
The Sawtelles
Good and All – Crash 23 (2025)
Cat Crash
Venn-Diagram – CATASTROPHE: And Other Things I Never Told You (2024)
Overloded
20’s, Now What? – Miss President (2025)
Ruby Leftstep
Bitter End (2025)
Pond View
My Bosses Last Cig – Day Late, Dollar Short (2024)
Reale Wolfe
Jet Set – Pictures and Words (2024)
Ginger Bug
All the Way to Rockville – All the Way to Rockville (2018)
The Striped Bananas
Claudia Jennings – Dreams Upon the Mast (2021)
Sinooka
Tune Out – Space jungle (2022)
Eddie Golden III
Ollie North – Skateboarding Tricks Volume I: Flip Tricks Side B (2025)
Skating
Hey Please – Ultra Blue (2016)
Jacques Le Coque
Tip of My Tongue – Positively (2018)
Heatlamp
Baby Shampoo (unreleased)
5/14/25
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Miracle Legion
Sooner – Drenched (2016)
The Problem With Kids Today
You’re in Love with Junk (2021)
The Reducers
Company Man – The Red Album (1984)
Minus Points
Adjective Goth (2023)
Green Panic
What It’s Like (1986)
Foundations of Wednesday
My Weird Orthodontist (2025)
Mildly Allergic
Burden – Everyone Tells One Good Lie (2025)
Wearebison
Glistening the Screws (2024)
EGG!
Hard Year – BAIT (2020)
Will Jeffries
and in the panic dying (2020)
The Sawtelles
Go Between (Already Know) – Crash 23 (2025)
Sean Henry
Room in the Hall – Head (2024)
Holiday Clocks
Wonder Why – Holiday Clocks (1988)
Audio Jane
While You Were Gone – A Terrible Plan (2021)
Ambulance Chasers
Alley Flowers – TOO! (2025)
Orange Cake Mix
Dead Leaves of November – Oceanside 72 & Other Favorites (an assortment of compilation tracks 1994-2002) (2018)
Carey
Daily – Stunted (2025)
5/7/25
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Miracle Legion
And Then – Me and Mr. Ray (1989)
The Almighty Yellow Star
Passing through a Self – The Almighty Yellow Star (2025)
Ponybird
Feel (2021)
Mercy Choir
More than Ever – More than Ever (2018)
Lys Guillorn
When I Was a Tiger Lily – Three Songs (2006)
An Historic
The Rain by the Ocean – Something We Could Never Live With (2018)
Zoo Front
On the Way Past Trinity – Desert Child (2024)
The Sawtelles
Down There – Crash 23 (2025)
Untold Joys
death in the doorknobs – die at the movies (2024)
Waveform
Ballroom – Antarctica (2023)
Mildly Allergic
She Don’t See Me Now – Everyone Tells One Good Lie (2025)
Point Radar
Small Song – Petty Theft (2021)
The Ambulance Chasers
Tout Suite (2025)
Heatlamp
Look What They’ve Done to the Sun – This Is Heatlamp (2020)
4/30/25
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Miracle Legion
Giant Transatlantic Trunk Call – Me & Mr. Ray (1989)
Lys Guillorn & Her Band
Tinctoria (2018)
Low Ceilings
Quite the Architect –Powerwalker (2025)
The Striped Bananas
Rayguns of Love – Rayguns of Love (2023)
Stadia
Instant Echo (2024)
Carey
Trinity – Stunted (2025)
offering field
deirdre’s dream – hand reaching through flames
The Sawtelles
Crash 23 – Crash 23 (2025)
Snowpiler
Citrus – Superfloor (2022)
Double the Dial
Losing My Mind (2023)
zanders
Lipstick (2025)
Sinecera
Bicycle King – told me to slow down, I can hardly know now, if I'm dosing the coda with work of the heart or lines from a tale... (2021)
sundots
Dear You – Honeyspot (2024)
Skating
Dream Speed – Dream Speed (2018)
4/23/25
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Miracle Legion
The Backyard – The Backyard (1985)
sundots
Green – Honeyspot (2024)
Lazy Trail
Fruit Fly (2024)
Cole Crawford
Slinky – Tree House (2023)
Asher Kai
Reword – The Beast (2023)
Offering Field
no inner light – from hand reaching through flames (2025)
Pond View
Two Headed Boy – Mouthbreather (2021)
The Sawtelles
Beat the Odds – Crash 23 (2025)
Carey
Daily – Stunted (2025)
The Most
It Starts in Your Head – Of What We Have (2020)
Witch Hair
Motorcycle II – Out on Love (2018)
Glambat
Breathing Ritual (2022)
Dagwood
Trying To Be Kind – Pollyanna Visions (2024)
Heatlamp
Supersonic Eyes – This Is Heatlamp (2021)
PulsR
Prescience – Sent (2021)
4/16/25
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Miracle Legion
Closer to the Wall – The Backyard (1985)
Pond View
Multitasking – Sludge (2023)
Waveform
Lonely – Antarctica (2023)
Ghouls Etc.
I Don’t Wanna Die in Vermont (2025)
Angel Loor
Hate My Friends (2023)
SB Khi
What a Guy (2025)
MGMT
Nothing To Declare – Loss of Life (2024)
Short Punks in Love
Gem Spa Reunion (2005)
T!lt
Afterthought – Death Do Us Part (2024)
Figurine
Left Hand – Worthy (2021)
Lys Guillorn
In Sleep – Lys Guillorn (2003)
Heatlamp
Pointy Cat from Outer Space – This Is Heatlamp (2021)
Second Opinion
I Gotta Go! (2025)
Believe It, It’s Easy
Missing Him – You Can Believe It Too (2025)
Wally
Bell Weather - FELOPZD (2024)
The Striped Bananas
Silver Heels – Dreams Upon the Mast (2021)
4/9/25
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Miracle Legion
If She Could Cry – Me and Mr. Ray (1989)
Pond View
Heatwave – Sludge (2023)
MJ Bones
Spade – This Machine Loves You (2025)
Xavier Serrano
All My Dollars – Bell Chimes of Yesteryear (2019)
Waveform
Last Room – Last Room (2020)
Sean Henry
Room in the Hall - Head (2024)
Valley of Kings
Flesh and Blood – Victory Garden (1985)
Chopper
I Fell (For a Chance) – Chopper (1991)
Brian Larney
Why Should I Care? (2025)
T!lt
Dust Bunny Symphony – Death Do Us Part
Queen Moo
Capetown – Too Troo (2024)
Figurine
Daughter Language – Worthy (2021)
Lys Guillorn and her Band
How To Make a Mountain – Split 7-inch (2017)
Heatlamp
I’m Against Violence – This Is Heatlamp (2021)
The Tines
Emptied and Refilled (2024)
4/2/25
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Miracle Legion
The Heart Is Attached – The Backyard (1985)
Old Milk Mooney
Bugs and Daughters (2025)
The Damien Pratt
Baby Bird – From the Tapes of Lenny Bruce, Vol. 2 (1998)
The Damien Pratt
Baby Bird (Reprise) – From the Tapes of Lenny Bruce, Vol. 2 (1998)
Pond View
Don’t Let Your Feelings Get in the Way – Sludge (2023)
The Absolute Zeros
Brother Macrae – Dreams Gone Sour (1998)
Audio Jane
Hurricane You – We Always Make a Mess of Things (2024)
Zoo Front
Mary’s Hat – Re-Entry (2023)
Greenholt
Off the Hook – Shadow (2024)
The Dispossessed
Swan Song – Swan Song (1988)
Heatlamp
Big (circa 1992) Unreleased
Lys Guillorn
Throne – Lys Guillorn (2003)
Chronic Disorder
The Final Line – The Final Line 7-inch EP (1983)
Perennial
All Day and All of the Night – Perennial ’65 (2025)
Believe It, It’s Easy
You Can Believe It Too – You Can Believe It Too (2025)
3/26/25
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Miracle Legion
Sailors and Animals – Me and Mr. Ray (1989)
Lys Guillorn
Little Wren – Lys Guillorn (2003)
The Damien Pratt
Baby Bird – From the Tapes of Lenny Bruce, Vol. 2 (1998)
The Damien Pratt
Baby Bird (Reprise) – From the Tapes of Lenny Bruce, Vol. 2 (1998)
Flowers from Tea
Love Again Demo (2023)
Mildly Allergic
Blame – New Year’s Eve EP (2024)
The Striped Bananas
Silver Heels – Dreams Upon the Mast (2021)
Heatlamp
Clouds in the Sky — This Is Heatlamp (2020)
Ponybird
Six Eight – Deep Meats II (2023)
The Shellye Valauskas Experience
Over the Top – History of Panic (2018)
Illuminous
Found me Too (2023)
Xavier Serrano
Enantiodromia (2024)
Mercy Choir
More than Ever – More than Ever (2018)
The Luck Pushers
Arkansas Traveler – Surfing in West Virginia EP (2023)
MJ Bones
Clementine (2023) - New Haven
The Moon Shells
Fireworks – Storm Plants the Seed (2024)
3/19/25
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Miracle Legion
Stephen Are You There? – The Backyard (1985)
Heatlamp
I Need Yr Help, Darlin’ (2020)
The Tines
Emptied and Refilled (2024)
Brooke Dougan
Song Called IDK (2024)
The Squires
Going All the Way (1966)
The Not Quite
Mushroom People – The Not Quite (1986)
Orange Cake Mix
June Moonbeams – Harmonies and Atmospheres (2000)
The Alex Butter Field
Gardener – Psychedelipop (2020)
The Knife Kickers
Endless Loop – Nameless (2024)
A.F. Chimes
People In Connecticut – Stab Love (2023)
Little Silver
There Is Always Something I Miss – There Is Always Something I Miss (2018)
Believe It, It’s Easy
Missing Him – You Can Believe It Too (2025)
Queen Moo
Almost There – Too Troo (2024)
The Bargain
Seeds – Smile and Smile (2025)
Greenholt
Boss Level – Shadow (2024)
3/12/25
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Miracle Legion
Butterflies – The Backyard (1985)
Old Milk Mooney
Brick by Brick – Do Not Worry (2024)
Figurine
Jersey Cotton – The Dive (2022)
Second Opinion
I Gotta Go! (2025)
The Problem with Kids Today
What Else Could I Say – Born To Rock (2024) - New Haven
Wavy McGrady
Right Here – All in All (2025)
Audio Jane
Jackknife – We Always Make a Mess of Things (2024)
Heatlamp
Unhinge the Wax Piranha/Make a Tape Loop – This Is Heatlamp (2020)
Reale Wolfe
Jet Set – Pictures and Words (2024)
Farmertan
Human Resources – Big Songs for Little Places (2024)
Wally
Wide Awake - FELOPZD (2024)
Xavier Serrano
Run for Your Life – Bell Chimes of Yesteryear (2019)
The Sawtelles
Garden – The Sawtelles (yellow) (2002)
Perennial
Perennial ’65 – Perennial ’65 (2025)
Ovlov
Strokes – Buds (2021)
The Damien Pratt
Tear Myself Away - From the Tapes of Lenny Bruce, Volume 2 (1998)
3/5/25
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Miracle Legion
You’re the One Lee – Me and Mr. Ray (1989)
Kim Normal
Heart to Heart – Picturesque (2021)
Audio Jane
The Mark – We Always Make a Mess of Things (2024)
Bud Collins Trio
Do Not Reply (2020)
Mother Juniper
Apology from Hades – Write the Soil Lighter (2023)
Ovlov
Eat More – Buds (2021)
American Elm featuring Shandy Lawson
Me and Anna Lee (2025)
The Luck Pushers
Bill Cheatum – Surfing in West Virginia (2023)
Brian Ember
Tomorrow Looked Better Yesterday – Thank You (2024)
A.F. Chimes
Stab Love – Stab Love (2023)
Chistopher Cavaliere
Ghost of Fun – Big Wheel Plus (2024) – Bridgeport
Lys Guillorn
Believe – Winged Victory (2013)
Ginger Bug
Don’t Stop Banging that Drum – Rise Up Where You Are (2023) – Ellington
Heatlamp
The Put-On Shoppe (2020)
The Damien Pratt
Welfare – From the Tapes of Lenny Bruce, Volume 2 (1998)
2/26/25
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Miracle Legion
So Good – Drenched (1992)
The Ambulance Chasers
Snake Oil Salesmen – Two Step in the Dark (2023)
Xavier Serrano
All My Dollars – Bell Chimes of Yesteryear (2019)
Reale Wolfe
Let Me Be Your Driver – Pictures and Words (2024)
Drifting North
Easy Pass – First Harvest EP (2025)
Perennial
The Mystery Tone – Art History (2024)
Goodnight Blue Moon
Undertow – Dawning Dream (2018)
Melanie Champagne
Circle Back – Circle Back (2024)
Old Milk Mooney
Dreams (2025)
Low Ceilings
Silicon Valley – Dig That Hole Again (2023)
Heatlamp
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round – This Is Heatlamp (2020)
Sean Henry
Burn It Out – Head (2024)
MJ Bones
Spade – This Machine Loves You (2025)
The Reducers
Life in the Neighborhood – The Red Album (1984)
Kim Normal
Heart to Heart – Picturesque (2021)
2/19/25
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Miracle Legion
Even Better– Me and Mr. Ray (1989)
The Almighty Yellow Star
Up or Down (2023)
Paul Haegar
Sunday Afternoon (1991)
The Moon Shells
Fireworks – Storm Plants the Seed (2024)
The Tines
Emptied and Refilled (2024)
The Sawtelles
Nitwit Scene – Poptelles (2007)
The Shellye Valauskas Experience
Cracked Up – History of Panic (2018)
One Hundred Faces
Carousel – (198-?)
The Alex Butter Field
Radiating So Quietly – Psychedelipop (2020)
Valley of Kings
Come Out Julie – Victory Garden (1985)
Heatlamp
Supersonic Eyes (2020)
Lys Guillorn
Impossible – Lys Guillorn (2003)
The Damien Pratt
Kid Gloves – Euthenasia (2001)
Farmertan
Idiot Boy – Female (1996)
2/12/25
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Miracle Legion
Just Say Hello – The Backyard (1983)
Litvar
Waiting for Something (2024) - Willimantic
Greenholt
Off the Hook - Shadow (2024) - Meriden
The Reducers
Company Man - The Red Album (1984) - New London
Heatlamp
I’m Against Violence – This Is Heatlamp (2020)
Farmertan
Human Resources– Big Songs for Little Places (2024)
Zoo Front
Mary’s Hat – Re-Entry (2023)
Wally
Tallgrass – Day by Day (2023)
The Damien Pratt
Mike Wallace - From the Tapes of Lenny Bruce, Volume 2 (1998)
MJ Bones
Clementine (2023) - New Haven
Lys Guillorn
My Lullaby – Wayward Children (2024) – re-release from 2009
The Not Quite
Let Her Go – The Not Quite (1986)
Double the Dial
Losing My Mind (2023)
Sean Henry
Virgo - Fink (2018)
2/05/25
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Miracle Legion
And Then – Me and Mr. Ray (1989)
Lys Guillorn & Her Band
Tinctoria (2018)
Zoo Front
On the Way Past Trinity – Desert Child (2024)
Butterflies of Love
Love May Be Possible – How To Know the Butterflies of Love (1998)
The Problem with Kids Today
What Else Could I Say – Born To Rock (2024) - New Haven
Valley of Kings
The Distance – Victory Garden (1985)
Farmertan
Young and Stupid – Big Songs for Little Places (2024)
Sawtelles
Amnesia – Promises and Codes (2022) -
Greenholt
Off the Hook - Shadow (2024) - Meriden
Ruby Leftstep
The Comedown – (2024) - from the sticks of NW CT
The Tines
A Thousand Points (2024)
The Modern Look
Romance Minus One (1981)
Holiday Clocks
Mystery Stonewall – Holiday Clocks (1987)
MJ Bones
Clementine (2023)