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The Sonic Bloom

Apr 28, 2025 6:00 PM – 8:00 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.

hey it's monday

let's continue my tribute to david thomas and play some new and old music.

6:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
6:07 PM		The Undertones Here Comes the Summer The Undertones The Undertones BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 2004
6:09 PM		Reuben Wilson The Cisco Kid (2024 Remastered Version) Reuben Wilson N The Cisco Kid (2024 Remastered Version) UNIDISC MUSIC INC. 1973
6:15 PM		Plone Plock Plone Plock - EP Warp Records 1998 Out of Birmingham, England. Plone formed in late 1994 when Mark Cancellara and Mike Johnston started to buy old analogue keyboards and guitar effects units, and began to rehearse and make soundscapes under the name Rehab.
6:19 PM		Circle Jerks Rock House Circle Jerks Wonderful Cobraside/Porterhouse Records 2008 Wonderful is the fourth studio album by the American hardcore punk band Circle Jerks, released in 1985.
6:21 PM		OFF! Hypnotized OFF! Wasted Years Fat Possum 2014
6:23 PM		FEAR We Gotta Get Out of This Place FEAR N "the Record" Atom Age Industries / FEAR Records 2024 Originally released in 1982.
6:26 PM		Can Oh Yeah Can Tago Mago Mute 2013 Tago Mago is the second studio album by the German krautrock band Can, originally released as a double LP in August 1971 on United Artists Records. It was the band's first full studio album to feature vocalist Damo Suzuki after the departure of Malcolm Mooney the year prior, though Suzuki had been featured on most tracks on the 1970 compilation album Soundtracks.
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6:38 PM		The Monks Monk Time The Monks The Early Years 1964 - 1965 Light In The Attic Records 2009
6:41 PM		The Jam Beat Surrender The Gift (Deluxe Edition) The Gift (Deluxe Edition) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2012
6:41 PM		Buzzcocks Something's Gone Wrong Again (2001 Remastered Version) Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady (Deluxe Version) Domino Recording Co 2001
6:46 PM		American Music Club What Godzilla Said to God When His Name Wasn't Found In the Book of Life American Music Club Mercury Rhino/Warner Records 1993
6:49 PM		Elecktroids Perpetual Motion Elecktroids Elektroworld Warp Records 1995 Based in Flint, Michigan, USA, the four young sons of an electrician welded together their debut album. This album, titled Elektroworld, is a personal tribute to the well known pioneers of the electro-disco-beat; Kraftwerk. Label Clone Classic Cute based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
6:56 PM		Teenage Fanclub Sidewinder Teenage Fanclub Bandwagonesque Sony Music CG 2018
6:58 PM		The Seeds Mystery Man The Seeds Children's Day Airplay Records 2013 The Seeds are an American psychedelic garage rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965, best known for their highest-charting single "Pushin' Too Hard". The band's classic lineup featured frontman Sky Saxon, guitarist Jan Savage, keyboardist Daryl Hooper and drummer Rick Andridge.
7:04 PM		Perfume Genius It's a Mirror Perfume Genius N Glory 2025
7:07 PM		Dinosaur Jr. The Wagon Dinosaur Jr. N Puke + Cry: The Sire Years 1990-1997 Cherry Red Records 2024
7:12 PM		Big Boys Sound On Sound Big Boys The Fat Elvis Touch and Go Records 1993
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7:22 PM		Circle Jerks Wild In the Streets Circle Jerks Wild In the Streets Trust Records 1982
7:24 PM		The Cure Boys Don't Cry (Single Version) The Cure Three Imaginary Boys (Deluxe Edition) Rhino/Elektra 2004 Came out May 7 1979.
7:26 PM		Bob Dylan Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde Columbia 1966
7:33 PM		Sebadoh Ocean Sebadoh Harmacy Sub Pop
7:36 PM		Frank Black My Life Is in Storage Frank Black Honeycomb Cooking Vinyl 2005
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7:44 PM		Pere Ubu Thriller! Pere Ubu Dub Housing Fire Records 1976 RIP David Thomas.
7:49 PM		Betty Davis Game Is My Middle Name Betty Davis Betty Davis Light In The Attic 2015
7:54 PM		Rocket from the Tombs Romeo & Juliet Rocket from the Tombs Barfly Fire Records 2011
8:00 PM		Pere Ubu Moss Covered Boondoggle Pere Ubu Trouble On Big Beat Street Cherry Red Records 2023

Chat is archived.

hey

Howdy

Hey. The only thing I remember of Pere Ubu's show at the Fast Lane is their performance of "7 and 7 Is".

oh that must've been sweet, david

hey david and rob!

y0y0!

y0y0! michael

Oh Yeah

hey oh yeah

Love Fear! And so kool that Lee Ving grew up in Philly, but he was out of here by 1970.

that's right! lee ving was a philly guy.

hey john

I'm reading about Lee Ving, and Fear's SNL performance, and the DC punks such as Ian Mackaye who went to New York to see Fear

Mem of Bitter Wish have played backing Damo Suzuki (Can) and also in Bardo Pond. Bitter Wish is playing Soupcon Salon Gallery in Lambertville , NJ this Saturday May 3

wow! cool pickled eggs

amazing rob! fear and john belushi - priceless.

I finally saw Fear in early 2000's upstairs at the Troc. Lee Ving backed by a band of young kids but they sure rocked!

wow, john!

heard that shoutout! how we liven

ha! michael

Heyo! Been listening for a while while cleaning the house, really enjoying the mix of stuff so far!

Sweet!! Hi, Race

Sky Saxon's death got buried in the news because Farrah Fawcett died the same day.

aw that's sad, david - what year

i mean rip farrah fawcett too

June 25, 2009. I believe some other singer died that day, whose surname rhymed with Saxon.

Too lazy to Google so I'll go by memory and say I Michael Jackson's death overshadowed Farrah.

ooh

I'll never forget that day Jackson died. I was on Twitter all day watching TMZ report in real time while the LA Times would confirm an hour later. Respect for TMZ after that, but I'll still wait for legitimate news sources to confirm.

PoPin in to say HELLO!

They still kill this one live

hi, Inspector!

amazing, race

i recall you saying they had a wild thrash pit

They did indeed, when i saw them in jersey in 22 it was a much rougher crowd than philly last year

wow

Dudes were throwing elbows the whole show, and yelling at them when they took a minute to drink water and talk while tuning

man glad i skipped it lol

Haha for sure

Philly was a good show tho, the pit wasn't like aggressive

right

bye everyone!