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Bulbous Monocle @bulbous-monocle.bsky.social · Nov 22
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Bulbous Monocle is a new archival label based in the PNW. The label will focus on reissues dealing with the San Francisco bay area musical scene that was extant from the mid 80's to the late 90's. Re...
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Essential New Music: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282’s “Tangle” (@bulbous-monocle.bsky.social). “The reissue of this debut reveals a band with ideas to burn and pockets full of matches.” Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2025/09/08/e...
September 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Essential New Music: World Of Pooh’s “Tight And Loose” (@bulbous-monocle.bsky.social). “World Of Pooh never tried to clean up its ragged edges, preferring to rattle and clatter like a cross between late-1970s editions of the Urinals and the Fall.” Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2025/08/11/e...
August 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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CPS mixes it up this week via a fun collab w/ @athens441.bsky.social, sharing recent faves from our local scenes. Plus German garage-punk on @kitchenlegrecords.bsky.social, a World of Pooh (@barbaramanning.bsky.social) reissue on @bulbous-monocle.bsky.social + more! www.mixcloud.com/nstop/cycles...
Cover image for the May 7, 2025 episode of Cycles Per Second: a blue-tinted, orange-highlighted photo of a close-up of a hand turning the volume knob on a piece of stereo equipment. Playlist for the May 7, 2025 episode of Cycles Per Second: Cola - Mendicant World of Pooh - Stones Of Judgment Artificial Go - Hallelujah laundromat chicks - Want Some Air The Verlaines - War In My Head (demo) somesurprises - Lush Sloan Brothers - In For Love Casual Hex - The System Temple of Calisthenics - Air Raid THiQ - Yes/No The Microbes - Computer Diane Electro - Let's Get Laid TY - RIDE MY BIKE Apartment - New Age Pierre Gisèle - Au Revoir Et À Bientôt
May 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The new duo of @bulbous-monocle.bsky.social releases arrived today. Brilliant stuff! I imagine these'll be in heavy rotation around The Permitage for a bit.
June 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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The album is a sleek maelstrom of crackpot dissonance, noise-rock power balladry, schizo-telepathic improv and some of the finest underground music of the era. Tangle is a template and Proclamation of Intent that presages TFUL's classic 90s releases.
June 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"...Their jagged and discombobulated take on underground pop music was exceptionally fertile, feral and fetching..."
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Jay Hinman's thoughts about the release "World of Pooh immensely brightened the dark corners of San Francisco, California during the years 1983-1990, with their most recognized guise being the MMF trio that existed & thrived during the years 1986-1990. This is the lineup you’ll hear documented on this exceptional collection of 45s, compilation tracks and assorted ephemera. The band has ranged from being a footnote for some (“is that the band Barbara Manning was once in?”) to a fondly-regarded memory for others (“the Land of Thirst album is a forgotten classic”) to a turnstile, door-opening band for still others — like me. They arrived in my life as they were slowly exiting theirs, and I eagerly attended a half-dozen shows of theirs circa 1989-90 around San Francisco moments after I moved there. They were instantly my favorite local band, one I was instantly duty-bound to see whenever & wherever they played. Their jagged and discombobulated take on underground pop music was exceptionally fertile, feral and fetching, and it served as a personal gateway drug that flowered my own appreciation for many different kinds of subtle musical tension."
June 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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2nd promo video for the release of
World Of Pooh - Tight AND Loose LP
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June 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Bulbous Monocle is THRILLED to release the latest album in the continuing reissue campaign of the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 discography.
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June 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Bulbous Monocle is THRILLED to announce the release of
World of Pooh - Tight AND Loose LP
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Limited edition of 500!!!
June 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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We are so fortunate to have Val Wilmer (b. 1941) telling more of her stories. She is a hero of music & photography.

First episode of the podcast Much More than the Notes by Rubén Coll.

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Much More than the Notes
Episode 1. Val Wilmer. Sitio web de la Radio del Museo Reina Sofía.
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February 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Essential New Music: The ‘Fronts’ “Mamo Waves” (@bulbous-monocle.bsky.social). “The band members’ influences were legion or at least as numerous as the collective collections of a crew of college-aged people living in good used-record markets in the 1980s.” Review: magnetmagazine.com/2025/01/31/e...
Essential New Music: The 'Fronts' "Mamo Waves" - Magnet Magazine
“I am not guilty of insanity/My brain was taken in a brain robbery.” So sings one of the pseudonymous members of the ‘Fronts (pay attention to that apostrophe) on “Mowin’ The Lawn,” which is one of si...
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January 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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rec of the day THE 'FRONTS "mamo waves" (bulbous monocle LP) comp of unreleased tracks by the semi-legendary sf sub-undefground band the whitefronts. fucked-up art rock from somewhere between the sun city girls & caroliner, but with actual pop flashes. .
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The 'Fronts - Mamo Waves, by The 'Fronts
6 track album
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December 21, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Announcing the release of the long lost 2nd album from The 'Fronts - Mamo Waves LP BM-05 Limited Edition of 300 copies.
This is in stock and ready to ship.
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December 7, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Bulbous Monocle is a new archival label based in the PNW. The label will focus on reissues dealing with the San Francisco bay area musical scene that was extant from the mid 80's to the late 90's. Re...
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November 22, 2024 at 2:28 PM