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WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

The Sonic Bloom

May 26, 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.

Memorial Day

hey...

The Sonic Bloom
6:01 PM
Satan's Pilgrims - Ben Tenaka
Satan's Pilgrims Ben Tenaka Satan's Pilgrims
Frankenstomp: Singles, Rarities & More 1993-2014 Sp Records 2015
6:04 PM
Charlie Feathers - Uh Huh Honey
Charlie Feathers Uh Huh Honey Charlie Feathers
Charlie Feathers Nonesuch 2005
6:07 PM
Stereolab - Melodie Is A Wound
Stereolab Melodie Is A Wound N
Instant Holograms On Metal Film 2025
6:14 PM
Satan's Pilgrims - Sukiyaki
Satan's Pilgrims Sukiyaki Satan's Pilgrims
Frankenstomp: Singles, Rarities & More 1993-2014 Sp Records 2015
6:16 PM
Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:20 PM
Sparks - JanSport Backpack
Sparks JanSport Backpack Sparks N
MAD! 2025
6:23 PM
Sophia Kennedy - Rodeo
Sophia Kennedy Rodeo Sophia Kennedy N
Squeeze Me City Slang 2025
6:28 PM
Emi Pop - Quiero Bailiar Rocanrol
Emi Pop Quiero Bailiar Rocanrol
Quiero Bailiar Rocanrol - Single 2025

Puerto-Rican born, Seattle artist.

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6:31 PM
Why Bother? - Speck's Lament
Why Bother? Speck's Lament Why Bother?
You Are Part of the Experiment 7" Feel It 2025
6:32 PM
Joe Egan - Leavin' It All Behind
Joe Egan Leavin' It All Behind Joe Egan
"Out Of Nowhere" Cherry Red Records 1979
6:35 PM
C.A.D & The Peacetime Consumers - Play Atlantis
C.A.D & The Peacetime Consumers Play Atlantis C.A.D & The Peacetime Consumers N
Play Atlantis V/A 2025
"With a pre-Asylum Laurel Canyon vibe by way of those busted Wayne County roads, Play Atlantis deftly splits the difference between the Straight and the Bizarre. Though the committed students of a variety of moldy freaks from the bygone days, Christopher Alan Durham and his Peacetime Consumers have crafted new mutant strains of lysergic choogle to guide righteous outsiders through the dawn's early light." -Nate K. host of Burn It Down! on WFMU.
6:41 PM
the crushedvelvets - Here And There
the crushedvelvets Here And There the crushedvelvets N
I Planted, Apollos Watered, But God Kept Making It Grow 3635727 Records DK 2024
6:44 PM
Ian St. George - Angel Flowers Hiking Song
Ian St. George Angel Flowers Hiking Song Ian St. George N
Emergency Index Dead Bell Records 2024
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6:47 PM
The Altons - Waiting
The Altons Waiting The Altons N
Heartache in Room 14 Daptone Records 2024
6:49 PM
Rat Henry - Seren Star
Rat Henry Seren Star Rat Henry N
Material Pop, Vol. 1 Minimum Table Stacks 2024
https://rathenry.bandcamp.com/album/material-pop-volume-one
6:52 PM
Mekons - Before The Ice Age
Mekons Before The Ice Age The Mekons N
Horror Fire Records 2025
6:56 PM
Orchestra Ensemble & Lalo Schifrin - El Choclo
Orchestra Ensemble & Lalo Schifrin El Choclo Orchestra Ensemble & Lalo Schifrin
Tango (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 1998
6:58 PM
Can - Father Cannot Yell
Can Father Cannot Yell Can
Monster Movie (Remastered) Mute 2011
Monster Movie is the debut studio album by German rock band Can, released in August 1969 by Music Factory and Liberty Records.
7:08 PM
Population II - Prévisions
Population II Prévisions N
Maintenant Jamais Bonsound 2025
7:09 PM
Kilynn Lunsford - Nice Quiet Horror Show
Kilynn Lunsford Nice Quiet Horror Show N
Promiscuous Genes Feel It Records 2025
7:11 PM
Chavez - Top Pocket Man
Chavez Top Pocket Man Chavez
Ride the Fader Matador 1996
7:14 PM
Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes - I'm Up Here
Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes I'm Up Here Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes
C87 Cherry Red Records 2016
7:16 PM
Population II - Macavalique Rock
Population II Macavalique Rock Population II N
Maintenant Jamais 2025
7:17 PM
Population II - Haut-Ford
Population II Haut-Ford Population II N
Maintenant Jamais 2025
7:21 PM
Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers - Trips
Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers Trips Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers
Kicks or Macabre Soft Abuse 2023
7:22 PM
Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:34 PM
Kalamazoo Drone Society - Seven
Kalamazoo Drone Society Seven Kalamazoo Drone Society N
Six & Seven Steno Pool Records 2024
7:54 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkeley Dreams
The Magnetic Fields Busby Berkeley Dreams The Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs Merge Records 1999
Chat is archived.
Esoterica (host) 6:04:13 PM
hey
Rob from Maryland 🦀 6:18:08 PM
Hay
Esoterica (host) 6:19:30 PM
hi!
Readie Righteous 6:25:18 PM
Whoa! That Sparks tune freaked me out - as I was putting my Jansport backpack into my car….
TAndy 6:25:51 PM
Heya Esoterica!
Readie Righteous 6:26:11 PM
lol- hitting the road, kids!
Esoterica (host) 6:28:30 PM
hi TAndy!
Esoterica (host) 6:28:41 PM
haha readie!
michael gudgeon 6:33:17 PM
y0y0! sick set readie
michael gudgeon 6:33:54 PM
sparks was just the answer on a game show, was gonna wait for lizbot to share that info whenever i heard her next but realized you jsut played some sparks!
Esoterica (host) 6:34:35 PM
howdy michael! sweet. which show? jeopardy?
michael gudgeon 6:34:36 PM
Bands of Brothers" was the clue!
michael gudgeon 6:36:25 PM
no, it was a game show i've honestly never seen before, beat the bridge it was called
michael gudgeon 6:37:26 PM
they give a clue, and have 2/3 answers, have to answer like 6 to 8 right before you get 3 wrong, win a prize. Was pretty shocked though lol, anyways happy mdw!
Esoterica (host) 6:37:51 PM
ha! happy mdw!
Rob from Maryland 🦀 6:43:33 PM
Hi Esoterica, we're enjoying your show, though we are not eating crabs
Esoterica (host) 6:44:39 PM
Nice! You don't have to be! That is just a touristic lame thing of me to say anyway:)
Rob from Maryland 🦀 6:45:57 PM
it's all good! we wouldn't mind eating crabs but that would entail going out
Esoterica (host) 6:47:16 PM
i get it!
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 7:03:16 PM
FM is getting intermittent funky drumming
Esoterica (host) 7:04:10 PM
bummer
Esoterica (host) 7:04:49 PM
hi dave i just switched to a cd
Esoterica (host) 7:04:54 PM
any better?
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 7:05:39 PM
comes and goes for a half a minute
Readie Righteous 7:06:34 PM
uh oh
Readie Righteous 7:07:01 PM
FM and stream
Esoterica (host) 7:07:12 PM
just texted pat
Esoterica (host) 7:09:21 PM
he said he will contact someone
Esoterica (host) 7:14:23 PM
sorry guys
Esoterica (host) 7:18:48 PM
oh good thx dave
John Coffey 7:18:49 PM
Hey Esoterica, hanging in there with ya!
Esoterica (host) 7:18:56 PM
aw thank john
Esoterica (host) 7:19:10 PM
i was playing some good stuff too bummer!
Esoterica (host) 7:20:09 PM
skipping on the radio
Esoterica (host) 7:21:02 PM
did you hearthat?
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 7:22:32 PM
yeah, sounds like the sound is dropping out multiple times a second
Esoterica (host) 7:23:18 PM
jeez pat says it os the internet in the barge apparently
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 7:24:17 PM
2 weeks back it was the internet at the transmitter
Esoterica (host) 7:24:42 PM
oh
Esoterica (host) 7:25:05 PM
did it happen to you?
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 7:25:08 PM
crumbs.
Esoterica (host) 7:25:12 PM
i wish i could troubleshoot
Esoterica (host) 7:26:28 PM
there is no reason for me to go on air and speak
Esoterica (host) 7:27:02 PM
thx fro your feedback dave
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 7:27:16 PM
yeah, during Sangeet a couple weeks back. Mike had to run out to the transmitter
Esoterica (host) 7:27:30 PM
i texted mike too
Esoterica (host) 7:28:08 PM
wow that must have been frustrating
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 7:28:38 PM
yeah, but you know exactly how that feels
Esoterica (host) 7:29:23 PM
yes
Scurrow Squirrel 7:30:08 PM
I guess this song is not supposed be this glitchy
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 7:31:10 PM
a cool effect with your voice, sounds like your announcements are bubbling up from the depths
Esoterica (host) 7:32:48 PM
ha! funny not funny
Esoterica (host) 7:33:07 PM
hey scurrow squirrel unfortunately not.
Esoterica (host) 7:34:16 PM
ell at least now i am playing drones
Esoterica (host) 7:34:19 PM
well
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 7:39:27 PM
music is clear right now
Esoterica (host) 7:39:33 PM
oh good.
Esoterica (host) 7:39:40 PM
thank you for letting me know
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 7:40:42 PM
and back to drumming
Esoterica (host) 7:42:32 PM
yup
Bukowski's cigarette 🚬 7:43:10 PM
..memorial day..
Matt Sabbath 7:43:33 PM
KDS !!
Esoterica (host) 7:43:58 PM
hey matt and bukowski's cigarette.
Matt Sabbath 7:44:46 PM
SUP
Esoterica (host) 7:45:48 PM
a little glitchiness today
Matt Sabbath 7:45:52 PM
mo drone pleae
Matt Sabbath 7:46:19 PM
I'm glitchy EVERY day
Esoterica (host) 7:46:35 PM
trying my best. i will be sure to play next week again, hopefully with a clear broadcast for ya.
Esoterica (host) 7:46:44 PM
ha you and me both!
Esoterica (host) 7:54:17 PM
bye, all!