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The Sonic Bloom

Apr 20, 2023 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

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.

The Sonic Bloom, your way.

The Sonic Bloom 2023 Spring Drive Show #1 feat. Dana K and Wild Carnation!

12:05 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:10 PM		Wild Carnation The Road to Bielefeld Wild Carnation Superbus Lucky Pig Records 2006
12:16 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:28 PM		Brenda Sauter & Chris O'Donovan Part 1 Brenda Sauter & Chris O'Donovan Part 1 2023 2023
12:33 PM		Yung Wu The Empty Pool Yung Wu Shore Leave Bar/None Records 2018
12:40 PM		Brenda Sauter & Chris O'Donovan Part 2 Brenda Sauter & Chris O'Donovan Part 2 2023 2023
1:03 PM		Speed the Plough Broken Glass Speed the Plough Broken Glass - Single Dromedary Records 2021
1:08 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:10 PM		Brenda Sauter & Chris O'Donovan Part 3 Brenda Sauter & Chris O'Donovan Part 3 2023 2023
1:23 PM		Dengue Fever Tokay Dengue Fever The Deepest Lake MRI 2015
1:28 PM		Massive Attack Teardrop Massive Attack Mezzanine (Deluxe) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2019
1:33 PM		The Seeds 900 Million People Daily All Making Love (Full Length Version) The Seeds Future - [Disc 1] GNP Crescendo Records 2013
1:43 PM		Django Django Default Django Django Django Django Ribbon Music 2012
1:47 PM		Silver Jews Trains Across the Sea Silver Jews Starlite Walker Drag City Records 1994
1:50 PM		Lead Belly Packin' Trunk Lead Belly BD Music Presents Lead Belly BDMUSIC 2006
1:54 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:07 PM		Eddie Cochran Somethin' Else Eddie Cochran Somethin' Else Parlophone Catalogue 2004
2:09 PM		Frank Sinatra Where or When Frank Sinatra Romance: Songs from the Heart Capitol Records 2007 Written by Rodgers and Hart, 1937, for "Babes in Arms". Going out to my parents, Stu and Kay.
2:12 PM		C. W. McCall Convoy C. W. McCall The Real Mccall American Gramaphone 1990 Came out in 1975.
2:17 PM		baseball sound effects baseball sound effects
2:17 PM		Guided By Voices Bulldog Skin Guided By Voices Mag Earwhig! Matador 1997
2:19 PM		The Move Beautiful Daughter The Move Shazam A&M 1970
2:22 PM		Roy Wood Dear Elaine (Rough Mix) Roy Wood Boulders Parlophone UK 2007
2:26 PM		Mott the Hoople Drivin' Sister Mott the Hoople Mott (Expanded Edition) Columbia/Legacy 1973
2:37 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:39 PM		Todd Rundgren Baby Let's Swing / The Last Thing You Said / Don't Tie My Hands Todd Rundgren R Runt Rhino 1970 Going out to Andrew Weiss!
2:44 PM		Harry Nilsson I Will Take You There (Alternate Mix) Harry Nilsson Skidoo RCA Records Label 1968
2:50 PM		Redd Kross Deuce Redd Kross Teen Babes From Monsanto Merge Records 2018
2:53 PM		Wipers Mistaken ID Wipers Outtakes (1979-1983) Zenorecords 2002
2:56 PM		Uriah Heep Easy Livin' Uriah Heep Demons and Wizards (Deluxe Edition) Castle Communications 2003

Chat is archived.

happy 420 everybody

DJ Esoterica! DJ Dana K!

hola mrm

Special Show! Let’s Go!

Afternoon Esoterica and Dana K!

hay dana k and dje

Time is a flat circle

HeyOoo, Stevie P

DJ Pup had a TopNotch Show! Cheers!

thank you thank you!

hello dj pup

Hey stevie!

Happy Holiday errbody!

You know you’ve had too much when you’re using shoe as phone

20 South Tulane indeed!

20 S Tulane!

I owe Jon a soda, damn

What time, again, please?

Starts at 11 am

tks pup

Pacific Standard Time?

EST

Oh, I’m busy that day

I’m busy that time zone too

mrm, You're always busy!! you need a vacation

i concur. you deserve a brake today, mrm

That's very nice of you to say. Caught up on entering everyone's pledges and I'm going to reward myself with a falafel.

MrM exists at every time in history simultaneously

howdy all! pledge.wprb.com

enjoy that falafel, Jon! it's yours!

Jon, you just had a birfday?

Shoe as phone to call my missing phone.

Mmm falafel 🥙

Jon, I've been wondering what I'm gonna fetch for lunch and you just helped me pick.

Good afternoon everyone

i had falafel at alyan's on 4th street yesterday in philly

special falafel-50 birthday lunch

i had an almond croissant but at some point will need to eat an actual lunch

Eso, That spot never disappoints been going there forever.

if you go to PLEDGE.WPRB.COM and donate you can suggest food for me to eat

howdy parrscream, mr. m, stevie, jon, dj pup, colin, shane!

I have a birthday reward coupon, even!

yeah me, too. i lived in philly 1990-99, colin:)

DJ Dana K sees MEeeee! 🖤💀

One pledge = one Dana K entree.

Now that really makes it a birthday lunch

how are the levels?? vocals, music

Levels are good!

Beer levels are way low

good!

Wet lunch starts soon

weed levels are super high (lol)

haha, i will tap the beer levels after the show!

just kidding i don't partake

Puff puff PASS, ERYBODY! 💨💨 🚬💨💨

haha

howdy, bri!

Did I see Malcolm Tent back there?

howdy, steve!

Pledge muscles stretched... ready

Mr Malcontent is not Malcolm Tent

they're two different wild dudes

😈

Sounding good, Eso & Dana K 🎛

thanks, steve k, for the donation!

great, c!!

be like steve! donate!

yes!

i love this jangle

Gentlemen, your shrimp counts are dangerously high right now. What we need to do is bring your white wine levels up. - Dr Oswalt

me, too, dana

WestSiiidddeee!

EastSiiidddeee!

Afternoon Es

howdy hi Os

To me 4/20 is SKULLFEST FIRST LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT DAY

you too are a degenerate! and a communist!

Greetings, degenerates!

I want to be like Commie F. a commie degenerate. where do i sign up?

Both DJs mostly sound like they’re each on the main mic and in the same room! Cheers!

Gonna need a bigger goal!!!

yo commie!!

Stevie I'm offering an online seminar

Hi esoterica!!

Top Tier Shows can get 10 pledges per hour!

yo, Newtown Bike Works!

Commie Francis' School for Communist Degenerates

And seriously, that’s Every WPRB Show! Woooo!

donate to pledge.wprb.com to sign up

School for Communist Degenerates, even if you don't show up you'll still get a passing grade!

that's the ONLY way to get a passing grade

how is the sound level?

if you take over the dean's office and generally trash the place, you graduate summa cum laude

i read you 5 by 5

sound ok, dje

Super, DJ Esoterica!

thx, mr. m!

Hello Stevie

hi, os!

Arf! Meow!

woof!

Weekend Shows❣️

yup!

THE FEELIES 💝

agree and concur, mr.m

Nice start to the show!

i dig the jangles

yeah, me, too, lots to dig into, stevie p

wild carnation, yung wu, feelies, the trypes

six degrees of separation

musically speaking

Wow, nifty!

rich barnes he speaks of

michael imperioli!

whoa

FUN

Oh bye

i did not know he is a musician

yeah he is playing with them maybe this summer in asbury, his band is zopa

Yeah i saw his band was playing with Bush tetras recently

I also saw a photo of him with John Brannon hahah

how was zopa, commie?

MrM, please stop barking

At some point we've all owned that striped down toyota, mine was a 79 datsun 210

I shan’t - woof arf bark

lol

LOOOL Steve

yeah colin:)

Oh.. that's not my email notification tone ha... must have picked up on the mic

I've met John Brannon a couple of times (at Easy Action or Laughing Hyenas shows). He's nicer than reputed.

cool, david

and hi

Really liked that Licorice Pizza film. Fun ride

same

agree

concur

I guess I liked it more than you two

Erica i didn't see them, i just saw that the show was happening!

A Haim n fam did well. P.S.H.'s son too

I do not like HAIM

Haha

My experience of Brannon is that he is quite nice too. I really enjoy his Twitter too but he seems to have stopped tweeting all the time as a new years resolution

i also do not like HAIM

He used to tweet his every thought always prefaced by "check it out"

low five @DJ Dana K

Isn't WFMU's Frank O'Toole in this group? I haven't heard from him in a while.

ExtraTerrestrial! 👽

Atom and His Package!

yo yoni!

Package was technically a drum machine

Holy Cannoli I read it before I heard it! 😱

That story is BoNkErS!

Atom is def a wprb heard first moment.

I started listening to WPRB on Jan 1 1985.

woot!

Mind them asteroids at that there satellite studio. Activate force fields

I've never read "Speed the Plough". Does it stand the test of 225 years' time?

Shout out to me

ErrMahGawd

Spleef the Plow

yoniSplained

You mansplainer, Yoni.

Gerse Bermps!

I'll donate when you tell me to donate!

I got weights to lift here, pal

i'm gonna knock you into each other

Dengue is a fun show. Chhom Nimol she belts it out

oops! my bad!!! 4/29!!! for ins-store show at wild carnation

jack's in red bank

oh i might be able to make that

https://facebook.com/events/1292235311330176

i'm in pahrump, pal

thanks, david!!

i've been to pahrump

i have too, weirdly

california in the desert

Great interview!! Cheers!!

we got our sixth donation! thanks gloria and bruce - 4 more to go!

woot!

is pahrump in california or is it in nevada? i remember driving through there on my way to death valley from vegas

cheers, mr. m!

thx!

yeah it is in death valley, maybe nevada

i've driven to idaho form san diego along that route which i love a million times

from

***FOUR MORE DONATIONS*** and then we strrrrretch that goal

BJÖRK is the Mayor of Pahrump, Nevada

Big stretch

stop, mr. m! is that a joke

Do I ever JOKE? 🤡

noooooo

i miss the desert! i've driven from ontario, CA to northern arizona...also drove across the country along old route 66 about a decade ago

pahrump, iceland

right

BJÖRK is from New Jersey

That explains her accent

STRETCH THOSE GOALS. FOREMAN MILLS

And her album all about disco fries

hello all !

howdy, tom!

House MD!

hey readie!!

thx for stopping by:)

Hey Eso-T & Dana K & Chat! I just got finished bingeing House MD, and this is of course, the theme...

I was just mentioning that to Esoterica!

pledge.wprb.com!

Cool, Dana!

Cheers to DJ Readie Righteous!

Loved that show and loved the fact that it used this as its theme

YOOOOOO MrM!!! cheers!!!

Readie and Lizbot on tonight!!!

Cheers to DJ CommieFrancis!

Speaking of Asbury, I hear tonight's show (Shut Up, The Dead Moon Hung, 19DRT, The Azures) at the Bond Street Basement may be its last. I guess the only good venue in town will be the Trinity Episcopal Church.

Hope to catch that show too, DJ Dana K!

Me too, @Dana-Last week I played a track they used on the finale Motopony with Euphoria- what a great show!!

Readie and Lizbot are a powerful pledge team

So LOOKING FORWARD to co-hosting with Lizbot on Doubleplusgood today!!!

wow really, david?

Nice sound

love the readie/lizbot combo

I unfortunately missed Massive Attack when they came a few years ago (I have no concept of time and I forget when it was)

DJ Dana K & Eso-T- KILLIN' IT!

But my roommate Brian and one of our best friends went and loved it

MASSIVE ATTACK 💗

thanks, readie!

agree and concur, mr. m

When discussing an event from before the pandemic I always add three years. Something that seems like five years ago is actually factually EIGHT or more! Ugh 😩

that's how i feel. the past three years have destroyed my sense of time and place in the universe

You might need to add 5 years! 🙃

i'm like Billy Pilgrim from Slaughterhouse Five

How did Sky come up with that number?

Must have been written on 4/20

hmm don't know, david

true, mr. m when 4/20 was everyday in the haight

zactly

Sky Saxon went off the deep end and joined a cult

groovy man groovy

But who didn't join a cult in the 60s/70s

true story?

yeah

whoa

He joined the Source Family led by Father Yod\

hello and happy bloomsday!

Why does every cult leader have a crazy haircut and wildman beard?

the cult released a few records as Ya Ho Wha 13

DJ Dana K can has some good memory muscle!

howdy andrew and francis!

pretty wild psych stuff

I'm checking wikipedia just to make sure I'm not feeding you fake news

Oh man I forgot how good Django Django were/are

Django Django!

yeah!

Bloomsday ain't until June 16, Andrew!

love this song

ha watt loves bloomsday!

Yeah, who dis???

There's a pretty good show of all music produced by cults on wfmu, music of mind control

django django

I see that, DJ Esoterica 😝🤓

love no doubt the people's chorus (him jones) is played

hahah

That docu on The Source is wild. There's tons of the music that cult made floating around the webs

Oddly enough not the first Father Yod reference of the last 48 hours

WPRB is a cult. a BENEVOLENT one. donate to us.

The church of niscience, source family, the process church all produced pretty good music

Hi Readie Frizzle Jackson!

what about the "flirty fishing" sex cult. i feel like they had to have made some music

we got another donation! three more to reach our goalllllll

You guys playing DC Berman always makes my day. Good stuff..

thank you for your donation, gautham!

Sarah Squirm, comedian and SNL actor, posted that she was channeling Father Yod in a Weekend Update skit last week

thanks, gautham!

Hi Butter smooth Ossy!

There was that cult Jim kweskin was in but his music was pretty awful at that point

Squirm ?

Yoni and I saw Jim Kweskin at the Folk Fest last summer

I was into it. Though that cult was kinda dull, tbh.

He was a pretty typical sounding old guy folk singer with a guitar. Would not have guessed he was in a cult with Mel Lyman had I not known

The Lyman Family was pretty interesting actually

Oh just great choice for the silver jews. Thanks

especially their integration with the hippie scene in Boston

LEADBELLY ❤️♥️❤️

The hippie>cult pipeline will always fascinate me

oh yeah, mr. m

I have a record from that cult and it has liner notes that are like THIS IS A NEW FORM OF MUSIC LIKE KOTHING BEFORE and it's total old timey Jim kweskin music without the joy. And i looked and Jim and some of his jug band were on it. It did seem like a pretty boring cult.

read the book "Astral Weeks," there was weird child abuse going on, though not sexual or violent in nature, they were just separated from their families

You don't need to helter skelter to be an interesting cult!!

I wonder why Don Bolles is in this documentary:https://tubitv.com/movies/321248/the-source-family

Haha

I just don't think jug bands make for interesting cult music

Yeah good book that Astral Weeks

Nobody in the Lyman Family ever got into hang gliding! Unlike Father Yod. Just saying.

mel lyman played after dylan went electric

Cult of WPRB. Finally! One I would be ok to join.

hi lee!

For prb cult pledge gifts we have a fleet of Mercedes, 50 Rolexes and a small rural town in Oregon. Pledge now!

Nice! I always wanted to be in a cult!

Full court press! Can't wait for the big ball game tonight. I hope Joel Embiid is listening!

yes yes

2 parts Lisa. 1 part Cult Jam

fo sho

WOO HOO! thx for shout-out! Dana K!

Haha NO SPOILERS

Rockabilly my love.

100 pledges of, like, $1 each?

Tattoo on face

Break out the Rit dye in the tub Dana K! Change your tee color!

100 pledges of $1 each is VALID

and i'll get that tattoo

This is somethin else!

Please no $1 pledges!

Great Zep version of this Jan 1970 Albert Hall

Aw thanks. And here, I'm thinking I'll pledge during automation...didn't want to play favorites!

sweet, yeah i forgot about that bri

got it, lee! all good:)

Dolla pledge hurts your credit card. Leave big bruise

Jon says no $1 pledges. I take it back

Maybe I just actually want an excuse to get a WPRB tattoo

I believe the pledge site can't take 'em.

$100 per month pledge level and I get a tattoo

Now all I want to do is pledge 100 times at $1 each. Thanks Jon!

Robert & Jimmy loved their Eddie Cochran covers yep

The horse with the omega mark that i see on my hike now wants to pledge. And their buddies

All of my existing tattoos are music related except for my Star Trek phaser

Yer gonna put that suicide jockey behind that microbus?

going out to my chatters on wilbo's show, where my voice sounded like this

Shaky Town = San Francisco

last time I had my roommate on the joke was that we sounded like we were broadcasting from an underground bunker in the canary islands

Bear in the air = police helicopter

ha-HA! DJ Esoterica!

I predicted you would play this!

this SET❣️ 🏆

Pickin 5 starts here!

Just got a new donation! Two more left until the goal!

Chartreuse bus was not Father Zod...i don't think

this foes out to bri, who said i sounded like this tuesday

Convoy was such an indoor recess 1970s 45 record request

Hahaha

Any auctioneer sound after this gimme1dollapledgedoihear1dollapledgegimme2dollapledge...

Larky Parka FTW!

Baseball related, Robert Pollard pitched a no-hitter when he played college baseball

Got bulldog skin cuz I drum, right? - not Scott Thompson

I will read about the Mel Lyman cult. But that record was boring as hell

i love! omg! i love uncle bo even more, dana

BOB

OUR UNCLE BOB

Uncle Bob and brother Jimmy are Ohio sports heroes!

if anyone listens to Tim Heidecker's Office Hours, apparently the most recent episode involved him making up fake Guided By Voices song titles

The goats are all running to the fence with pledges in hand . They'll trade for spruce tips

... fake titles that I'm sure are now real ones cause there's probably a new GBV album as of five minutes ago

ONE MORE DONATION TO REACH OUR GOAL

I heard Tim H do a bit on that years back

I've heard him sing a fake GBV song that was altogether too real

woot!

80s band name generator. GBV song title generator. All good generators

we are so close to our goal y'all and we're got nearly 40 minutes left in the program

yeah!!

10 DONATIONS

WE DID IT

LET'S GET TO FIFTEEN

Gooooo Stretch!

File the last one under "i can't believe it's not a dukes of the stratosphear song" (beautiful daughter one)

the dukes were definitely moved by the move!

wow, bri, yeah. the move, written by roy wood

That's right they had brainiac's daughter! Def a move homage

The jacket illustration for Marc Riley and the Creepers’ “Cold Fish” is hilariously disrespectful to the memory of Eddie Cochran: https://45cat.com/record/it025

not to mansplain the dukes of stratosphear but musically that was an homage to Sir Paul McCartney

i'll probably play some dukes on saturday if i don't play straight XTC

I met Terry, the original drummer, the other week at Randy Now's record store and showed him my XTC tattoos (even though they're from a record he didn't play on). He still kills it on the drums!

That cost $60. Ouch!

yeah...tell me about it!

Glam Bam Thank You Fam

wooo-wooo! that was electric light orchestra!

Hammerstein house / mansion there too in Doylestown area

aka The Highland Farm

yes!

Love strange magic ELO

Hey, DJs... you should crack out the horn for donations. Everybody loves to hear the horn!

Where is Selecta Jerry when you need a vuvuzuela honk?

Stevie - And the wooowooo sound by Martin Lawrence from Martin!

airhorn may make a comeback saturday night...

Hope Selecta makes a surprise appearance during the drive

DJE, I believe it's customary for you to sing during the pledge drive.

Laura Nyro-inspired

true, stevie p! i will next week.... just you wait

The highlight of my pledge drive last year was having Esoterica sing Tainted Love

thanks, dana i enjoyed that!

same here Dana K!

i didn;t get to the punk i was going to play

oh well next time!

OH man I missed Mott the Hoople, Roy Wood, *and* The Move. And Convoy too. Dang.

Oh man I missed the punk Esoterica was going to play, too

can we get those four more donations!?!

i promise there will be much punk on Don't Back the Front in two days

I reckon I'll go take a nap now

hey rob!

always looking forward to more punk on wprb!

Workin' on it, Dana K

and hi Esoterica!

you will get some next week!

@colin!

punk? did somebody say Mikey Wild and the Magic Lanterns?

You know, Mikey wuz a punk b4 you wuz a punk, punk

Two more donations, Dana K!

I'll try to be around next week, Esoterica!

yes!

And I'll certainly be around on Saturday night!

monthly donors be like.. https://media.tenor.com/be9gaBFH1dYAAAAC/kirk-mccoy.gif

thank you Rob!!

This has been a great, fun show! Thanks DJE and Dana K!

i'm so happy we didn't run into any technical difficulties like last year...but there's still ten minutes left

me, too!!!

Great show Esoterica and Dana K!

anxiety does make you work overtime, dana (at least me!)

jango! thanks!!

thanks all!!!

this album is too much fun!!

I braved seeing "Skidoo" at the Film Forum before it became available on home video. It was excruciating!

hey, great show eso + dk!

lol david

andrew, thanks so much!

if you are all interested in a super cool documentary featuring redd kross, sonic youth, minutemen, neubauten, savage republic et al i recommend "desolation center"

about when they used to throw these wild shows deep in the desert outside of LA

DJ Esoterica! DJ Dana K! Excellent show! Many thanks! Big cheers! Kind regards to each of you!!

yes! thanks everyone!

MEOW @Sleeve❣️

Thanks Brian D for the donation!

thanks bri!

guys in Red Kross have been in sooo many other bands

Closer closer... You're welcome!

ONLY ONE MORE DONATION TO REACH THE STRETCH GOALLLLLLLL

That Redd Kross EP also features "Citadel", giving overdue respect to the most maligned Stones album.

ha, david!

letsss gooo one more donation!

RK Bass player uploaded a new version of White Stripea lp where he added his bass lines ha! "RED Blood Cells"

This was 20-25 years ago. Fun stuff

Vicki Peterson was in Redd Kross, if only for one night in 1984. I know this because Dez Cadena screened a video of it at the Brighton Bar several years ago!

sweet, david!

Oh wow haven't heard Easy Livin in many many many years

ha rob! well this isn't punk but still rocks

This is a thing I've heard before...

thanks everyone for listening and donating! hopefully i'll see you all during don't back the front saturday night! maybe we'll see some of you outside PREX saturday afternoon! and of course, next thursday on the sonic bloom!

thanks guyz! yall have us easy livin!

OH HELL YES WE HIT OUR STRETCH GOAL

GGGGOOOOOAAAALLLLL!!!!

I will count that as number one towards my tattoo goal since they mentioned

WOOOOOO! Yeah!

thanks so much, everyone!!