The Sonic Bloom Thu Jan 19 with Esoterica on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

yo

YO

howdy mr. m

howdy hi

:)

Hi DJ Esoterica!

DJE, you and I both said howdy at the same time!

whoa

Hello

hi stevie p:)

hello bri:)

ha great minds, stevie

boy, i'll say

Well, go ahead and say it then!

howdy

Omg that’s not it

“great minds”

OyBoy

great minds, etc.

how's that?

Thumbs down

I’m so cold 🥶

48° I might die

Hello Esoterica and Co!

R.E.M. 🤎

yo dj pup!

i love r.e.m., mr. m

One day soon, play a G E M from R.E.M.❣️

Peter Buck has some great side projects. Hope that Robyn Hitchcock gets back w him and the Venus 3 (also w Scott Mc)

Callahan here! Hope you feel better! Day four of the dreaded rona! Think i caught it off a toilet seat!😀

яΞM

DJ Esoterica, what’s going on, you sick??

Ha! Stevie P! 👍

i have a sore throat, mr. m, thanks for the good wishes, inspector!

nothing to bad....

too

Hmmm taking vitamin c and zinc?

i will play a gem form r.e.m., don't you worry, mr. m.

i need to, mr. m

Tuatara = one of the best Peter Buck bands too

PSA: avoid toilet seats until further notice!

Git rid of the ICK, DJ Esoterica!

yes, bri, love the stuff you mentioned earlier, too.

haha stevie p

thanks, mr. m! i am staying in!

Good!

:)

Nice start to the show!

thanks, mr. m!

Gonna change this gloomy day to a bloomy day!

R.E.M. was my gateway band.

haha lee, nice to see ya!

Get healthy fast, Inspector Callahan!

Let's hear it for the Bloominaries 🌸🌻

aw thanks, inspector callahan. hope to make it so.

Thank You Sir!

howdy, christine! glad to see ya

To cocaine, Lee Chandler??

Hi Christine!

Hi Eso!

Hi MrM 💀 boo 👻!

Yes. Cocaine. Absolutely.

Boo, you scared me! 👻

lol lee

Fun, absoluteLEE!

The beautiful cocaine of liner notes referencing other bands, labels, musicians to then go to record stores & buy more cocaine.

right, lee

I chortled out loud

NIRVONA ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

does anyone recall the Taxi episode with Jim and Latka's cocaine cookies lol

funny

In Utero ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

oh yeah, mr. m

Oh yum, CocaineCookies

Paternoster kicking it heavily as usual

totally bri. she sounds a little similar to corin tucker i think on that track.

Good PH track. Getting their J Mascis Dino on

Oh yeah! Loving this.

oh yeah, me, too!

SUPERCHUNK❣️

'23 is looking good on last 3 tracks alone

healing through music, bri:) yup

agree and concur, mr. m, love superchunk

I concur and agree with all of us

All these hot 🔥 new releases

DJ Esoterica, thanks for sharing all these Newest of Nice Noises with us!

glad you like, christine and mr. m:)

(why didn't I concur?)

idk, stevie p?

A “Wally Gagel” must be in Louisiana, right?!?

good point, i am thinking Los Angeles? Here is bit about him:https://www.waxltd.com/about/

Seeing/hearing new Acid King in 2023 makes me happy

How is this possible!?! 😱 😝

DJE... it's a line from the movie Catch Me If You Can

oh and i saw that flick but don't recall. must rewatch!

@stavie

lol stevie

yo dsm! me, too!

hi all !

howdy tom! btw i am catching up on uploading shows

Thanks for uploading shows, DJ Esoterica!

sure thing!:)

i got a little behind, i just did 1/5

My behind is phat. 🤓

Such strong vocal. Great release that

i had a little behind. then i discovered donuts

🤣😂🤣😂

DJE, don't forget the PSA about avoiding toilet seats

#TurlitTalk

DJ WaveyCat!

Saturday is looking good!

More like WPR-DJESOTERICA

DJ EsotericaTAKEOVER!

uriah heep!!

they should consider seeing a doctor?

Purling Hiss rock

:)

Do they need a referral for Dr. Johnny Fever?

Spirited rainy day sounds! Thanky, DJE!

lol stevie p (avoiding toilet seats)

This is on fire!

Walkin in my Sleep that is

oh yeah i love it.

This is so wonderful. I cry.

Screaming Females will play at White Eagle Hall on February 18 with Laura Stevenson, Catbite and Gel. (I’ve seen them over a dozen times, but not since 2014 in Boyd Park.)

agree, lee

wow cool, david

oh yeah, those couple songs were great. need to track down a copy of that disc for sure

do it, tom!

this JAM Rn aF!

patrick cowley amazing

has a grace jones-ian dury-david johansen

early 80s vibe to it

1880s!

agree, tom

Gram’maFunk sees you Baby!

lol

💜 Patrick Cowley

love him, christine, may he still be playing electronica in the great beyond. this reissue on dark entries is to honor the 40th anniversary of his passing.

Oohhh I want a copy!

dark entries indeed!

this has good recording quality no, for a live album?

Because… WestSiiidddeee! 😎

yes!

Golden State *We Don’t F Around

This Wand is ripping! Always thought they were more folky, might be thinking of Wooden Wand? I like this , kinda Cave like

yup! true, mr. m badass

yeah dsm, isn't this amazing

Love it

If I lived near San Fran on the West Siiiiiiiiiiiiide, I would visit the Dark Entries store. They now have an actual Dark Entries Records location.

WestSiiiideeee, MrM 💀!

Good stuff here

could be 1970

Christine, I want to go to there. Seems too far. 🤪

"just an old white cat living in California"

MEOW 😻

me, too, mr. m and christine!

Oh, an audience!

"The coldest winter i ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" who said that?

Jesus?

Close

manson?

idk lol

Yoda!

lol

Mark Twain

He gave up L0LZ

Love that baritone guitar low low low sound

i love samuel clemens aka twain

yeah, me, too, bri

WILCO 💛 dedicate this “Dad Rock” to DJ Grady! 🥵

@inspector, i used to do pretty well in speech contests in high school (won some $), but for some reason, i went up on stage for my mark twain speech and spaced out completely and had to walk off the stage haha. not my best moment.

love tyler childers's voice

When the pressure is on....

DJ Esoterica, you’re a Human Person?!?

lol

yeah guess so, mr. m

Sovereign Citizen

my parents took me out to eat after that speech and they were so sweet. ha!

🏆🥇💰

oh hi mark

Do the speech for us on the next mic break!

lol

i prolly burned it

Haha

D&D! I’m not familiar

Bulettes and gith-yanki are being fought here

oh it is fun

Oh Sees always changing up their game

true dat

Good show at John and Peter's tonight. Alex MacMurray . Used to be leader of bands Royal Fingerbowl. And Tin Men. Don't do weeknights at the bar anymore but... about 20 yrs ago I'd be there

sweet, bri. and i have to nurse my throat wah

Heh just read Alex was on Treme couple times

Royal Fingerbowl lp "Greyhound Afternoons" is a good solid lp all the way through.

careful on that sore throat, thought I had sore throat and minor cold ended up being covid , just in time for christmas

nooooo, tom. hope you are better

fine now, didn't think I had it, only tested because a couple friends I was out with tested positive

uh oh

Glitch Music

Doom funk.

nevermind

Back.

MikeLupica fixed it!

Oh no! That dreaded beat!

good! thx mike

Whoa that was No Age? I remember seeing them at The Smell back in da daze

Like the new sound

yeah dsm, yeah different

steam powered transmitter needs more steam

I saw the Raincoats’ long-anticipated return to America on Tuesday, April 5, 1994 (at Maxwell’s with Maxwell’s co-owner Steve Shelley drumming). That was followed by a weekend New York show, Intended to precede a UK tour with Nirvana.

no age have def mellowed a bit since their early stuff

Are the angels calling for me?! I’m coming Elizabeth!

Pure Moods 💞

For the past hour or so I've been having an internal battle over what to do when I leave work today - physical record store shopping, or organize my neglected collection spread out to every room + basement of house. Please vote.

Can b bofes

STAND BY WHILE WE WORK THROUGH SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

Record Store! Minimum 10 new platters! Woooo!

this song conjuring up images of an 18 inch stonehenge being lowered onto the stage

Stand by on me head I can.. He's magic I tells ya ....

🛍 record store shopping, @Lee

Mew Mew Meow Meow

@Lee, having just recently combed through my neglected collection I will say that was pretty fun and cozy, with a nice beverage, hearing many things I forgot I even owned and kick starting the old internal memory function of my brain

DJE, did you say uriah heep earlier... or am I losing my mind?

haha you wnat it, stevie p?

want

i may be able to do that!

not extremely. my question is: did you say "uriah heep" earlier as part of a set break>

if not, maybe the voices in my head are talking about U.H.

but... if you were to play U.H., my fave cut is What Should Be Done.

TY all. Think home (found I bought a lot of duplicates in past year), drink, postpone shopping to a day I can start earlier & hunker down. I love this support group.

i played a song called hard livin and thought it w=ould be fun to play easy livin

we're here for you, lee!

hard damb livin' ... that's the reference

whew

Cheers, LeeChandler!

@ Esoterica (host) Enjoying the show, and always love tracks by the wonderful Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard. As it turns out, I'm learning "Walkin' in My Sleep" as an instrumental to play next month at a New England-style contra dance.

It's a cozy day for home as well Lee, with the rain and all. Have fun!

sweet, richard!

This SET! Tricks up sleeves!

ha, mr. m!

29 more minutes of sleeve emptying

Hello Es!

howdy, os!

yeah love boy harsher, mr. m

Tricks up the gloves, yeah!

Yup. Totally in love w/FussellThx Esoterica

oh, me, too. hope fussell comes back to Philly again soon, lee

you are very welcome, lee:)

Great show today Esoterica, loved all the New upbeat music on this rainy one. Thanks!

@DSM... you nailed it. Listening to this show with the pitterpatter of rain on the roof over my head... priceless

Thanks DJE for another priceless show

absolutely! happy to dig in to these great albums. and yes a cuppa coming up for me after the show. no going outside either!

ain't a fit day out for man nor beast

gloriously dreary

I love when there is a collective happiness about a rainy day, stay cozy my friends.

yes me too dsm

I saw Holly Cook play in the Slits in 2008 (Tessa and Ari were the only originals involved). Screaming Females were one of the openers!

so cool, david!

bye all! thanks for stopping by

Thank You for the great tunes Esoterica!

absolutely!!:) take care, lee

12:01 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:07 PM		The No Ones Song for George N My Best Evil Friend 2023
12:11 PM		Kate Fagan I Don't Wanna Be Too Cool N I Don't Wanna Be Too Cool (Expanded Edition) 2023 Kate Fagan, Cover It Up, from the album, I Don’t Want to Be Cool. Kate Fagan took the Chicago punk rock scene by storm in the early 80’s with her self-released single “I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool, ” which became the best-selling single ever by a local artist at the legendary Wax Trax! Records. Today, Captured Tracks is thrilled to present an expanded, re-mastered edition of I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool as a full-length vinyl album, featuring four unreleased, ahead-of-their-time tracks.
12:15 PM		Lisa O'Neill Old Note Lisa O'Neill N All of This Is Chance 2022 Lisa O’Neill. Old Note from the album, All of This is Chance. Raw and unvarnished folk for austere times. Uncomprimising, stunning, soul-shaking stuff - The Guardian. Releases February 10, 2023
12:21 PM		Screaming Females Brass Bell Screaming Females N Desire Pathway 2023 Screaming Females, track: Brass Bell, for the album Desire Pathway out Feb. 17. The trio recorded Desire Pathway at Pachyderm Studios, the same Minnesota space where Nirvana recorded 1993’s In Utero. Bandleader Marissa Paternoster shared a brief statement about “Brass Bell,” calling it “a song about surrendering your autonomy to something so overwhelmingly powerful you willingly relinquish your ambitions and self-worth.”
12:25 PM		Purling Hiss Yer All in My Dreams N Drag on Girard 2023 Purling Hiss, track: Yer All in My Dreams, for the pre-release, Drag On Girard. Release 3/24/2023
12:30 PM		Superchunk Everything Hurts Superchunk N Everything Hurts - EP 2023 Superchunk, prerelease Everything Hurts. Single. McCaughan told Stereogum about the 7 inch: Perhaps because they are more traditionally “Superchunk”-sounding than the rest of the LP (“Everything Hurts” could be from Come Pick Me Up, and “Making a Break” has What a Time to Be Alive energy)? Who knows! So here are these misfits from the Wild Loneliness sessions, recorded at home in Chapel Hill and mixed by Wally Gagel in LA.
12:35 PM		Acid King Beyond Vision Acid King N Beyond Vision - Single 2023 From SF! First full-length in 15 years coming out. Here's a sneak peak. Go Lori S.!
12:40 PM		The Men Hard Livin' The Men N New York City Sacred Bones 2023 The Men was formed by Nick Chiericozzi, Chris Hansell, and Mark Perro in 2008 in Brooklyn.
12:44 PM		Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Long Black Veil N Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2022 "Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell. It is told from the point of view of a man falsely accused of murder and executed. He refuses to provide an alibi, since on the night of the murder he was having an extramarital affair with his best friend's wife, and would rather die and take their secret to his grave than admit the truth. The chorus describes the woman's mourning visits to his gravesite, wearing a long black veil and enduring a wailing wind.
12:48 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:03 PM		Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Walkin' in My Sleep N Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2022
1:03 PM		Jake Xerxes Fussell Love Farewell Jake Xerxes Fussell N Good and Green Again Paradise of Bachelors 2022 Durham, North Carolina singer, guitarist, and folksong interpreter Jake Xerxes Fussell (yes, that’s his real middle name, after Georgia potter D.X. Gordy) has distinguished himself as one of his generation’s preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so traditional) “folk” songs, a practice which he approaches with a refreshingly unfussy lack of nostalgia and preciousness.
1:06 PM		Patrick Cowley Low Down Dirty Rhythm (feat. Jeanie Tracy) N Malebox Dark Entries 2022
1:15 PM		Water From Your Eyes Stepping Out Water From Your Eyes N Structure Demos Water From Your Eyes 2022 Stepping Out from the album, Structure Demos. Water From Your Eyes, the New York duo composed of Nate Amos (he/him) and Rachel Brown (they/them). Both known independently for their solo work under the names This Is Lorelei and Thanks For Coming respectively, the pair have been together since 2016, Now on Wharf Cat Records, the beloved Brooklyn label.
1:18 PM		Wand White Cat (Live) Wand N Spiders in the Rain Drag City 2022 Wand is an American psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States, formed in 2013. The band consists of Cory Hanson, Sofia Arreguin, Robert Cody, Lee Landey and Evan Burrows.
1:37 PM		Wilco Falling Apart (Right Now) Wilco N Cruel Country dBpm Records 2022
1:42 PM		Tyler Childers Way of the Triune God (Hallelujah Version) Tyler Childers N Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records 2022
1:45 PM		Ty Segall Hello, Hi Ty Segall N "Hello, Hi" Drag City 2022
1:48 PM		Thee Oh Sees Arena of Blood Thee Oh Sees N Arena of Blood - Single Kill Rock Stars 2022 Lots of Dungeons and Dragons references in the lyrics here. Check it out!
1:52 PM		Gina Birch Wish I Was You N I Play My Bass Loud 2022 Gina Birch is an English musician and filmmaker, best known as a founding member of post-punk rock band, the Raincoats.
1:56 PM		Johnny Moped I Believed Her Lies Johnny Moped N The Search for Xerxes Damaged Goods Records 2022
1:57 PM		Gunfighter Captain Acid Gunfighter Pro-Electric Idol Records 2001 a non-sequitir for ya, one-off not in 2022.
2:01 PM		No Age Andy Helping Andy No Age N People Helping People Drag City 2022
2:05 PM		Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Tidal River N Endless Rooms Sub Pop Records 2022
2:16 PM		Kitty Craft My Head Falls Softly Kitty Craft N Mew (1996-2004) Takotsubo Records 2022
2:16 PM		Titus Andronicus My Mother Is Going to Kill Me Titus Andronicus N The Will to Live Merge Records 2022
2:18 PM		Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons Fantastic Screams to God 2022
2:20 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:24 PM		Walt Disco Cut Your Hair Walt Disco N Unlearning Lucky Number 2022
2:26 PM		Sinéad O'Brien Like Culture Sinead O Brien N Time Bend and Break The Bower Chess Club 2022
2:28 PM		Boy Harsher Burn It Down Boy Harsher N Burn It Down - EP City Slang 2022
2:33 PM		Priest Blacklisted Priest N Body Machine Cleopatra Records 2022
2:36 PM		Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever The Way It Shatters Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever N Endless Rooms Ivy League Records 2022
2:40 PM		Jake Xerxes Fussell The Golden Willow Tree Jake Xerxes Fussell N Good and Green Again Paradise of Bachelors 2022 The Golden Willow Tree Library of Congress AFS 3714 B. Collected by Alan Lomax and Helen Hartness Flanders. Informant/Performer Elmer George, North Montpelier, VT, 1939. Used by Aaron Copland. From the Library of Congress: Two years after the success of his first set of Old American Songs, Copland arranged a second set of American folk tunes for voice and piano. As he had done with the American debut of the first set of songs, Copland once again accompanied baritone William Warfield in the premiere performance of the sequel set on 24 July 1953. Copland later transcribed both sets of Old American Songs for performance by vocal soloist and orchestra, which were later arranged for chorus and piano and chorus and orchestra by Irving Fine and many others.
2:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:53 PM		Hollie Cook Full Moon Baby N Happy Hour Merge Records 2022
2:58 PM		Yellow Magic Orchestra Firecracker Yellow Magic Orchestra N Yellow Magic Orchestra USA Sony Music Direct (Japan) Inc. 1979 R.I.P. Yukihiro Takahashi.

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