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The Sonic Bloom

Dec 19, 2022 3:00 AM – 6:00 AM

Music

With Esoterica

folky, punky, poppy, jangly, post-punky, and psychedelic goodness of the musical variety coming out of your speakers courtesy of moi. oh yeah, and occasional show tunes.

Richard X. Heyman! Glam Rock, too!

On the Sonic Bloom today, we'll chat with Richard X. Heyman and celebrate glam rock with our 7th annual GLAM extravaganza.

The Sonic Bloom
3:03 AM
Lalo Schifrin - Main Title
Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin
Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
3:10 AM
Richard X. Heyman interview - Richard X. Heyman interview
Richard X. Heyman interview Richard X. Heyman interview
2022 2022
3:47 AM
Richard X. Heyman - Misspent Youth
Richard X. Heyman Misspent Youth Richard X. Heyman
67,000 Miles an Album 2022
3:50 AM
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3:55 AM
Giuda - Tartan Pants
Giuda Tartan Pants Giuda N
Live at Punk Rock Raduno Wild Honey Records 2022
Glam, early punk, pub rock band from Rome, Italy, born in 2007 from the ashes of the punk rock band Taxi.
3:58 AM
Giuda - Medley (Get It over / Space Walk / Watch Your Step)
Giuda Medley (Get It over / Space Walk / Watch Your Step) Giuda N
Live at Punk Rock Raduno Wild Honey Records 2022
4:00 AM
Faz Waltz - Hot Cold Fever
Faz Waltz Hot Cold Fever Faz Waltz N
Hot Cold Fever - Single Faz Waltz 2022
Italian rock! Out of Cantu, Italy!
4:05 AM
Creem Circus - I Want to Hold Your Hand
Creem Circus I Want to Hold Your Hand N
I Want to Hold Your Hand - Single 2022
4:10 AM
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4:15 AM
Urge Overkill - The Kids Are Insane
Urge Overkill The Kids Are Insane Urge Overkill
The Supersonic Storybook Touch and Go Records 1991
4:17 AM
Slade - My Friend Stan
Slade My Friend Stan Slade
Old New Borrowed and Blue (Expanded) BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited 2006
"My Friend Stan" (stylised as "MY FRIEИD STAИ") is a song by the British rock band Slade, released in 1973 as the first single from the band's fourth studio album Old New Borrowed and Blue. It was written by lead vocalist Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea, and produced by Chas Chandler.
4:18 AM
Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men
Status Quo Pictures of Matchstick Men Status Quo
Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo Castle Communications 2003
"Pictures of Matchstick Men" is the first hit single by Status Quo, released on 5 January 1968.
4:22 AM
Mud - Crazy
Mud Crazy Mud
The Very Best of Mud Parlophone UK 1998
Mud [GB] originally released Crazy written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn and Mud [GB] released it on the single Crazy in 1973.
4:26 AM
Suzi Quatro - Glycerine Queen
Suzi Quatro Glycerine Queen Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro Chrysalis Records 1973
4:30 AM
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Time / Confusion
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Time / Confusion The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Esoteric 2016
Released in the United Kingdom in June 1968 by Track Records and in the United States in September 1968 through Atlantic, the album was an international success.
4:30 AM
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4:40 AM
Anthony Newley - Once in a Lifetime
Anthony Newley Once in a Lifetime Anthony Newley
Stop the World - I Want to Get Off (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Verve (Adult Contemporary) 2001
David Bowie LOVED Anthony Newley. I find Newley to be glam!
4:43 AM
David Bowie - Suffragette City
David Bowie Suffragette City David Bowie
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (2015 Remaster) Parlophone UK 2015
4:51 AM
Roxy Music - If There Is Something
Roxy Music If There Is Something Roxy Music
Roxy Music (Deluxe Edition) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2018
4:53 AM
Roxy Music - Angel Eyes
Roxy Music Angel Eyes Roxy Music
Manifesto EG Records 1999
5:03 AM
Badfinger - I Can't Take It (2010 Remaster)
Badfinger I Can't Take It (2010 Remaster) Badfinger R
No Dice (Expanded Edition) EMI Catalogue 2010
Going out to Diane! Written by Pete Ham.
5:06 AM
T. Rex - Life's a Gas
T. Rex Life's a Gas T. Rex
Electric Warrior Universal Music Group International 2012
5:06 AM
Mott the Hoople - The Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll
Mott the Hoople The Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll Mott the Hoople
The Hoople Columbia 2000
Released in 1974!
5:10 AM
Mott the Hoople - Violence
Mott the Hoople Violence Mott the Hoople
Mott (Expanded Edition) Columbia/Legacy 1973
Mott is the sixth studio album by British rock band Mott the Hoople. It peaked at No. 7 in the UK Albums Chart. It's is the last album to Feature guitarist Mick Ralphs and first without organist Verden Allen, due to Allen's departure most organ and other keyboard parts are played by Ralphs. "All the Way from Memphis", an edited version of which was released as a single, received considerable airplay on U.S. radio and captured the band overseas fans, as well as reaching the UK Singles Chart.
5:15 AM
The Runaways - Dead End Justice
The Runaways Dead End Justice The Runaways
The Runaways Island Def Jam 2010
5:22 AM
Klaus Nomi - Total Eclipse
Klaus Nomi Total Eclipse
Nomi Song (Remastered 2019) - Single Summer Girls 2019
5:30 AM
Redd Kross - Blow You a Kiss in the Wind
Redd Kross Blow You a Kiss in the Wind Redd Kross
Teen Babes From Monsanto Merge Records 2018
Released in 1984! Recorded at Kitchen Sync ad recorded by Geza X.
5:32 AM
Brett Smiley - Pre-Columbian Love
Brett Smiley Pre-Columbian Love Brett Smiley
Breathlessly Brett Cavalcade Records Ltd 2003
Brett Smiley (September 25, 1955 – January 7, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter who was active in the UK during the glam rock era of the early 1970s. Smiley released one single, "Va Va Va Voom," and made an appearance on the Russell Harty television show, where he performed the song "Space Ace". Smiley began his career as a child actor playing the title role in "Oliver!" in 1965 on Broadway.
5:33 AM
Jobriath - Morning Star Ship
Jobriath Morning Star Ship Jobriath
Jobriath Rhino/Elektra 1973
Bruce Wayne Campbell (December 14, 1946 – August 3, 1983), known by his stage name Jobriath, was an American rock musician and actor. He was the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, and one of the first internationally famous musicians to die of AIDS. He played Woof in the first production of Hair. He appeared in the legendary West Coast production at the Aquarius Theater on Sunset Boulevard. Born in King of Prussia.
5:42 AM
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5:43 AM
Can - Moonshake
Can Moonshake Can R
Future Days Mute 2013
Going out to Debbie!!
5:47 AM
Lotte Lenya - Moritat vom Mackie Messer (Mack the Knife) (From "the Threepenny Opera")
Lotte Lenya Moritat vom Mackie Messer (Mack the Knife) (From "the Threepenny Opera") Lotte Lenya
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill - The Seven Deadly Sins / Berlin Theatre Songs Masterworks Broadway 1955
5:50 AM
Zolar X & The Spys - Rich Girl
Zolar X & The Spys Rich Girl
00x When Worlds Collide Y-Not Records 2019
5:52 AM
Bay City Rollers - I Only Wanna Dance With You
Bay City Rollers I Only Wanna Dance With You Bay City Rollers
Wouldn't You Like It? Arista 2004
5:54 AM
David Essex - Rock On
David Essex Rock On David Essex
Rock On Columbia 1973
5:57 AM
Sweet - Stairway to the Stars
Sweet Stairway to the Stars Sweet
The Best of Sweet Capitol Records 1993