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The Sonic Bloom

Sep 6, 2023 3:00 AM – 6:00 AM

Music

With Esoterica

yo!

Playing all kinds of musical madness including mssv, Cabaret Voltaire, new Lewsberg, and much more!

The Sonic Bloom
3:02 AM
Lalo Schifrin - Main Title
Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin
Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
3:06 AM
Lewsberg - An Ear to the Chest
Lewsberg An Ear to the Chest N
Out and About 2023
From Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Catchy new album.
3:10 AM
Titus Andronicus - All Through the Night
Titus Andronicus All Through the Night Titus Andronicus N
The Will to Live Merge Records 2022
3:14 AM
Billy Nomates - Blue Bones (Deathwish)
Billy Nomates Blue Bones (Deathwish) Billy Nomates N
CACTI Invada Records UK 2023
3:18 AM
Musta Paraati - Uusi musta
Musta Paraati Uusi musta Musta Paraati
Uusi musta - Single Ratas Music 2015
Musta Paraati are a Finnish post-punk/gothic rock band, comparable to Killing Joke and Theatre of Hate. The original band was active for only a few years in the early 1980s, but their lineup changed many times before they dissolved circa 1985. The band made one comeback gig in 1987.
3:21 AM
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis (2023 Re-Mastered [Studio Demo])
New York Dolls Personality Crisis (2023 Re-Mastered [Studio Demo]) New York Dolls N
Dawn Of The Dolls (2023 Re-Mastered) Cleopatra Records 2023
3:24 AM
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3:32 AM
Primitive Calculators - I Can't Stop It
Primitive Calculators I Can't Stop It Primitive Calculators
Primitive Calculators Chapter Music 2004
A 70s-80s noise punk band from Melbourne.
3:34 AM
T.S.O.L. - Dance With Me
T.S.O.L. Dance With Me T.S.O.L.
Dance With Me Frontier 1981
My old vinyl! T.S.O.L. is an American punk rock band formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California. Although most commonly associated with hardcore punk, T.S.O.L.'s music has varied on each release, including such styles as deathrock, art punk, horror punk, other varieties of punk music, and hard rock.
3:36 AM
Kevin Drumm - Old Shoes
Kevin Drumm Old Shoes Kevin Drumm N
Battering Rams - EP A Sunken Mall 2023
From Discogs (read thoroughly!): Avant-garde tabletop guitarist Kevin Drumm was born and raised in 1970 in South Holland, IL, playing in a handful of rock bands before relocating to Chicago in 1991 to work at the city's Board of Trade. He soon began his experiments with prepared guitar, applying objects including magnets, binder clips, chains, a violin bow and even toenail clippers to distort the instrument's sound.
3:46 AM
HAVAH - Un Nuovo Meccanismo
HAVAH Un Nuovo Meccanismo HAVAH
Contravveleno Maple Death Records 2017
Italian postpunk!
3:49 AM
SPELLING & The Mystery School - Under the Sun
SPELLING & The Mystery School Under the Sun SPELLING N
Under the Sun - Single 2023
New single! Bay Area experimental pop performer SPELLLING (aka Chrystia Cabral) has announced a new album, SPELLLING & The Mystery School, out August 25 via Sacred Bones. Recorded with her touring band, the collection comprises reimagined versions of songs from throughout Cabral’s discography: her 2017 debut Pantheon Of Me, 2018’s Mazy Fly, and 2021ʼs The Turning Wheel. Along with the news, Cabral is sharing a double lead single, “Cherry” b/w “Under The Sun.”
3:54 AM
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Slowdive (12" Version)
Siouxsie & The Banshees Slowdive (12" Version) Siouxsie & The Banshees
A Kiss In the Dreamhouse Polydor 1982
My old vinyl!
3:57 AM
Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty!
Gang of Four To Hell With Poverty! Gang of Four
Another Day, Another Dollar - EP Matador 1982
4:08 AM
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4:11 AM
Grey Factor - Joyful Sounds
Grey Factor Joyful Sounds Grey Factor N
1979 - 1980 A.D - Complete Studio Recordings Damaged Disco 2023
Pioneers of the Los Angeles underground art damage electronic music scene, Grey Factor have been more myth than legend for over 40 years. The band recorded two experimental synth/post-punk EPs and gigged sparingly before disbanding. None of their recordings have been officially released in physical format until now.
4:15 AM
Tom Verlaine - There's a Reason
Tom Verlaine There's a Reason Tom Verlaine
Dreamtime Rhino/Warner Records 1982
My old vinyl!
4:19 AM
Steve Hillage - U.F.O. Over Paris
Steve Hillage U.F.O. Over Paris Steve Hillage
Green Virgin Catalogue 2007
4:21 AM
Wednesday - Quarry
Wednesday Quarry Wednesday N
Rat Saw God Dead Oceans 2023
4:25 AM
Lou Reed - Hangin' 'Round
Lou Reed Hangin' 'Round Lou Reed
Transformer RCA/Legacy 1972
from my vinyl!!
4:30 AM
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4:33 AM
Roxy Music - Beauty Queen
Roxy Music Beauty Queen Roxy Music
For Your Pleasure EG Records 1973
4:37 AM
Wipers - Pushing the Extreme
Wipers Pushing the Extreme Wipers
Youth of America Zenorecords 1981
4:41 AM
Killing Joke - Chop Chop
Killing Joke Chop Chop Killing Joke
Revelations 1982
My original vinyl!
4:44 AM
The Stooges - Not Right
The Stooges Not Right The Stooges
The Stooges Rhino/Elektra 1969
4:48 AM
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
The Jesus and Mary Chain Just Like Honey The Jesus and Mary Chain N
Sunset 666 (Live at Hollywood Palladium) Fuzz Club 2022
4:50 AM
Pill - Fruit
Pill Fruit Pill
Soft Hell Mexican Summer 2018
The four members of Brooklyn post-punk outfit Pill — vocalist/bassist Veronica Torres, drummer Andrew Spaulding, saxophonist Benjamin Jaffe, and guitarist Jon Campolo —exchanged sounds before words. Jaffe walked into their very first practice session playing saxophone, prompting Campolo to respond on guitar. “So our first sentences were musical,” recalled Jaffe. “That’s still arguably the best way we understand each other.” (from Mexican Summer description)
4:54 AM
Cabaret Voltaire - The Dada Man
Cabaret Voltaire The Dada Man Cabaret Voltaire
Cabaret Voltaire 1974-76 Mute 1978
Cabaret Voltaire were an English music group formed in Sheffield in 1973 and initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, and Chris Watson.
5:04 AM
Sheesh & Alan Watts - Nu Bluem
Sheesh & Alan Watts Nu Bluem N
Nu Bluem - Single 2023
5:07 AM
Gong - Mystic Sister / Magick Brother
Gong Mystic Sister / Magick Brother Gong
Magick Brother Charly Records 2006
Magick Brother is the debut studio album by the progressive rock band Gong, recorded in Paris during September and October 1969 and released in March 1970 on the French BYG Actuel label.
5:19 AM
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5:24 AM
Magma - Zombies (Ghost Dance)
Magma Zombies (Ghost Dance) Magma
Udu Wudu Charly Records 2006
Üdü Ẁüdü is the sixth studio album by French rock band Magma, released on 10 September 1976.
5:28 AM
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno - Wind on Wind
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno Wind on Wind
Evening Star Discipline Global Mobile 1976
5:32 AM
A Giant Dog - Watch It Burn
A Giant Dog Watch It Burn A Giant Dog N
Bite Merge Records 2023
Giant Dog is an American punk rock band from Austin, Texas. It has been described by Bandcamp Daily as "one of Austin's most thrillingly irreverent bands". It consists of Sabrina Ellis, Andrew Cashen, Andy Bauer, Graham Low, and Daniel Blanchard.
5:35 AM
Mayfly - Sad That Ur A Fantasy
Mayfly Sad That Ur A Fantasy Mayfly N
Sad That Ur A Fantasy - Single 2023
5:38 AM
Ratboys - It's Alive!
Ratboys It's Alive! Ratboys N
The Window Topshelf Records 2023
Ratboys are an American indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2010 by Julia Steiner and Dave Sagan. The band consists of Julia Steiner, Dave Sagan, Marcus Nuccio and Sean Neumann.
5:42 AM
Dropper - Ok Ok Ok
Dropper Ok Ok Ok Dropper N
Don’t Talk to Me Dirt Dog Records 2023
Out of Brooklyn. https://www.analoguetrash.com/blog/dropper-ok-ok-ok
5:46 AM
Boy Harsher - Come Closer (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
Boy Harsher Come Closer (Marcel Dettmann Remix) Boy Harsher
Come Closer (Marcel Dettmann Remix) - Single Nude Club 2019
5:53 AM
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5:55 AM
mssv - Baby Ghost (from the 1900s) [feat. Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges & Mike Watt]
mssv Baby Ghost (from the 1900s) [feat. Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges & Mike Watt] mssv N
Human Reaction (feat. Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges & Mike Watt)
Album comes out tomorrow! Go see mssv at The Sardine in Pedro Sept. 5 and check out the other tour dates at: mainsteamstopvalve.com
5:57 AM
Chet Atkins & Les Paul - Caravan
Chet Atkins & Les Paul Caravan
Chester & Lester RLG/Legacy 1976
"Caravan" is an American jazz standard that was composed by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington and first performed by Ellington in 1936. Irving Mills wrote lyrics, but they are rarely sung.