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The Sonic Bloom

Apr 27, 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.

Alpha Rabbit!

12:03 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:12 PM		Alpha Rabbit interview part 1 Alpha Rabbit interview part 1 2023
12:15 PM		Alpha Rabbit This Place Alpha Rabbit N Eternity Mint 400 Records 2022
12:20 PM		Alpha Rabbit interview part 2 Alpha Rabbit interview part 2 2023
12:43 PM		Alpha Rabbit Eternity Alpha Rabbit N Eternity Mint 400 Records 2022
12:47 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:56 PM		Marissa Nadler Sleep Walk Marissa Nadler Instead of Dreaming Sacred Bones Records 2021
1:00 PM		Clutch Spacegrass Clutch Clutch Atlantic Records 1995
1:03 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:16 PM		Urge Overkill Heaven 90210 Urge Overkill Saturation Geffen 1993
1:22 PM		Blue Öyster Cult Hot Rails to Hell Blue Öyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation Columbia 1973
1:25 PM		Ovef Ow Fauxtography Ovef Ow N Vs. The Worm 2023
1:29 PM		Skull Practitioners Exit Wounds Skull Practitioners N Negative Stars In The Red 2023
1:34 PM		Marcel Sletten Ghost N Mammatus Clouds 2023 A wonderful new album about a cat who passed away by Marcel Sletten. Out on Primordial Void.
1:37 PM		The Pop Group We Are Time The Pop Group Y Freaks R Us 2017 Release April 1979. RIP Mark Stewart.
1:44 PM		Game Theory Real Nighttime Game Theory Real Nighttime Omnivore Recordings 1985
1:48 PM		R.E.M. Radio Free Europe R.E.M. Murmur (Deluxe Version) Capitol Records 2010 Wasn't it the 40th anniversary recently! Let's go!
1:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:12 PM		Ween Gabrielle Ween Shinola, Vol. 1 Chocodog Records 2005
2:15 PM		Sparks I Want to Be Like Everybody Else Sparks Big Beat (21st Century Edition) Island Records 2006
2:17 PM		Pere Ubu Modern Dance Pere Ubu The Modern Dance Fire Records 1978
2:20 PM		Mission of Burma That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate Mission of Burma Vs. Matador 1997 Released October 1982!
2:22 PM		Stiff Little Fingers No More of That Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material Parlophone UK 2001 Released in 1979!
2:24 PM		The Damned Wait for the Blackout The Damned The Black Album Ace Records 2013 Released in 1980!
2:34 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:35 PM		The Jam In the City The Jam In the City (Remastered) Polydor Records 1977
2:36 PM		Deep Purple Rat Bat Blue Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are Rhino/Warner Records 1973
2:42 PM		Buzzcocks Love Is Lies (1996 Remastered Version) Buzzcocks Love Bites Domino Recording Co 1996
2:45 PM		The Soft Boys Queen of Eyes Underwater Moonlight Yep Roc Records 2010
2:58 PM		Pavement Shady Lane Pavement Brighten the Corners Matador 1997
2:58 PM		The Lemonheads Frank Mills The Lemonheads It's a Shame About Ray (Expanded Edition) Fire Records 1992

Chat is archived.

yo!

hey o

hi stevie!

you're the first

All that talk about "searching" reminded me of In Search Of, with Leonard Nimoy

i love that show

or loved

the pyramids, stonehenge

that show did it all

it was one of those rainy saturday afternoon, lounge on the couch (with a cat if you had one), watching whatever was on PBS.

... shows

like Marty Stouffer's Wild America

Bob Ross

Yan Can Cook

that Cajun cook who pronounced it Cage-ONh

Love it

hi chris!

hi everyone!

I might see Alpha Rabbit tomorrow at Joe's Mill Hill Saloon.

Hello

howdy david! yeah you should

howdy bri!

dang, burlington county is where i'm from

whoa

pledge.wprb.com!

Justin Wilson was the Cajun chef of PBS weekend fame. I gahr-onh-TEE IT! I tell you what I'm 'a gonna done did... I'm a take this heah shickon and shhrim and boil 'em up'ere ...

oh yeah

thanks, bri, good buddy! for the pledge

listen to this great band, Alpha Rabbit!

Burlco represent. Hi Dana!

Speaking of PBS, did anyone see “Here's the Story” on NJTV last night? It spotlighted Albert Music Hall in the Pinelands!

hey michael! for sure!

yo michael!

no i didn't see it, but i bet i can find the show, david.

Afternoon

afternoon, os!

It's Malumbo Jazz Makers. I actually discovered them while listening to WPRB.

lol walking to my car in princeton while the shaggs were playing was a great experience

So cool! Alpha Rabbit in the chat!!

:-D

oh hello there

howdy andrew!

sweet, dana, the other day? shaggs are great

We had a great time doing this interview. Thanks, Esoterica!

Absolutely, AR! was a blast. You are a lot of fun.

@esoterica, yeah, when you were playing them last weekend!

Why thank you.

ha, dana!

@David - thx for sharing that. Def going to check that out - Albert Music Hall is a fav!

hey, all! Alpha Rabbit will be at Mill Hill tomorrow night!

Howdy Amy!

we have one donation, we need four more to hear ESOTERICA SING

that is right!

donate!! pledge. worb.com

nope

pledge.wprb.com!!

@Amy - “The Reluctant Piney” (a documentary of the history of Pine Barrens culture) is screening 2:00 on June 11 at the Ocean County Historical Society (26 Hadley Ave, Toms River, NJ).

i am zoom and it was getting dark

so i looked like robert blake

in lost highway

Ooh we can hear Esoterica sing?

yup! along with a song

we can hear esoterica sing if we get to five pledges! currently sitting at one

that is also true, dana

i can say from experience that it's a treat

Hold up. I'm getting my credit card.

dana will spin a wheel which will determine whether i will sing lemonheads, pavement, ween, or urge overkill

BUT ONLY...if we get five pledges!

my wheel's at the ready

I pledged. Now sing "The Boat That I Row".

Dave, thx! Def going to try to check that out!

Hard left rudder!

DJE, better commence warming up your pips

pipes! Vowels then consonants!!

doing it! IP! Thanks David, too!

Oh dang FOUR PLEDGES

Just one to go!

woot!

Pledged!

thank you so much for the monthly donation, amy! TIME TO SING, ESOTERICA

woot! amy

ready to spin the wheel?

wheel's ready to be spun

is the airhorn charged up and ready to go?

Wizard's spell spun

dana? lol

thx roffle!

CLUTCH! Excellent choice

love this

haha my airhorn is shelved

i have no control over the sounds during this show, except for my own voice

how about an airhorn impression from one or both of the DJs?

and where it stops... nobody knows

i love it

steyoked

It is so okay to have que sheets.

hell yeah

love it!

Who doesn't love a good UO song. They put on such great shows.

this is too good

oh YEAH

it was good

Good fun is so good! Thx!

I've Got An Uncontrollable Urge Overkill

thx soooo much!

UO prompted me to donate - just can't help it

thx francis!

@Roffle... the only thing I like more than good fun is more good fun!

Sonoma is wine is a thing for sure.

@stevie, Yeah, absolutely thumbs up for fun dog piles.

B! O! C!

woot!!

love the russian river valley wines

Can't go wrong w the early black & white lp covers BOC

oh i know! love!

They were so good even without the cowbell!

Yes! True agents of fortune!

totally! IP

and roffle

this tune sizzles

agree, stevie

skull practitioners rock!

check them out on bandcamp

three more donations and i get to spin that wheel again

let me spin the wheel!

okay

do it! three more

ooh yeah pop group

maybe people don't want to hear me sing again!

lol

not but for real....

they don't donate, they get the Diamond

super fun show Esoterica and Dana K!

thanks, Richard!

OMG, not the Neil Diamond!

hahhahhh

well, it is a duet

a soft ballad, perhaps?

it APPEARS that we only need two more for the next song

yay

it's wild to me that mark stewart wasn't even 20 when Y was recorded

yeah crazy

game theory <3

love scott miller, rip

just over ten years since he's been gone

This is so good on levels! I've never heard it! Thanx!

one more to get another song!!!

wot!

that was...woot!

"wot" by captain sensible

yeah!

Wot ever!

maybe we should save the punishment song for later??

ha roffle!

Real Nighttime is an excellent name for someone else's radio show.

totally!

remember dj amelia had that tattoo

and hi, jon!

yes, it was amelia's show name and her tattoo

i always thought it was funny because it was in the middle of the daytime. i see her around west philly a lot, she's in a lot of bands! wish she had stayed at PRB!

Totally a show name for a daydreamer who just indeed sleeps during the day.

I like the term DJE just invented: punishment song

Also, it's several light years out in space. The final frontier

yup lol

da barge

Heard this station many years ago in the middle of the night playing the FULL Rocky and Bullwinkle theme driving out of NYC. Awesome sauce.

It's not what ya play it's how ya play it!

It's ok to have a little early REM, as a treat.

agreed, DSM. and a little salami.

😹

perfect!

that's the 6 million dollar man

i read you 5 by 5

hehe

there's some passion behind this performance.

yeah there is!

passion with a capital P

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

perfect mix

thx!

I clapped out loud

it was great! An exclusive experience

yo way! thx! thx colin!

should i turn my mic down a tad though....cringe face emoji be honest, be cruel

keep the mic up! one of my early music teachers said, you're never gonna be perfect and sometimes it's really gonna go off the rails, just keep the performance going. strong and wrong.

nice advice. thx, colin!

Pere Ubu!

yo yes!

Update! Update! Update!

woot!

66 pledges from the WPRB Membership Drive stretch goal! pledge.wprb.com

nice!

thx!

we can do it!

oh shiiii-

burma!

I am so gassed from data entry but this Mission of Burma track started and I sat up straight like a shot!!

woot! good, jon!

THAT'S HOW I ESCAPED MY CERTAIN FATE! BURMA BURMA BURMA! YEAH!

the BEST

keep the energy going!

Mission of Burma! Oh yes! And on we nicely go.

And.. the classics keep coming!

my phone decided to suddenly update right before the ween song 😥

is that a good thing, andrew?

oh no!

you tell me... i missed it!

the volume on my radio is rising along with the energy. Petal to the metal, DJE & Dana K!!!

thx ip!

This monthly donor loves to apply some drizzle drazzle to that plan with multi-one-times during the drives.

in the city!

YA YA YA YA!

another donation! three more!

amelia p!!

i feel like we summoned her by playing real nighttime

you did!

All the best today

oh thx, bri, you are on my wavelength

that is some fast playin!

two more donations to SPIN THE WHEEL! (thanks colin!)

yo!

thanks, everyone!

63 away from the stretch goal!

yayyyyy!

ONE MORE

woot!

i gotta go do work stuff but i just wanted to pop in and say wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

WOOP

Buzzcocks! Saw Chris Harford perform this a bunch at John and Peter's. A few times with Steve Garvey on bass too!

oh yeah, bri, me, too! too good

thanks, commie!

Steve Diggle on the lead vocals for this one!

oh yeah so sweet

Wow dj s. Fantastic hits. Thanks for spinning them

Last of the old lineup still in the band

oh thanks, HJG!!

ROBYN!

my boy robyn

WOOOHOOOO LOVE you 2!!!!

sing sing sing!

Oh yeah!!! Grand Finale! 5:00 pm tomorrow! Golden Record Hunt!

what would have been the 'punishment song'?

scottish

Ach. I cannae hear ye

dunna be a loon man

Anything you can do, I can do better! I can do anything better than you! No you, can, yes I can, can, can't, can, CANT!

YEAH DANA K!

Lancers in that maroon painted/ coated bottle.

wooooooo

59 pledges to go!

wow

amazing

so good

thanks esoterica i pledged

Guys you did a great job with shady lane.

punchdrink.com/recipes/shady-lane/

thx deb, hjg

Great show!!! Love Love Love!

appreciate it, hjg!

love ya, debbie!

Great show y'all

super show! thanks!

so much fun today!! thx eso & dk!

thanks everyone! Love you all! Thx, Dana K!

So fun! Thanks Esoterica and Dana K!

that was a blast! thank you everyone!