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The Sonic Bloom

Aug 12, 2025 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

hi!

I am back!

5:02 PM		Judee Sill Crayon Angels (Remastered) Judee Sill Judee Sill Rhino/Elektra 1971 Sill passed away in 1979. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/obituaries/judee-sill-overlooked.html
5:06 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:09 PM		Emma Tricca & Bridget St. John Rubies Emma Tricca & Bridget St. John N Rubies - Single Bella Union 2023 Bridget St. John is a singer-songwriter who has released several singles and albums throughout her career. Some of her notable singles include "Rabbit Hills" and "Tommy McHugh" (featuring Okkervil River). She has also been featured on other artists' songs like "Would You Like a Vampire" (with Orange). Her work is known for its unique blend of folk music with influences like Victorian and Edwardian sounds.
5:14 PM		Sibylle Baier I Lost Something in the Hills Sibylle Baier Colour Green Orange Twin 2006 Sibylle Baier (born 25 February 1946) is a German folk singer and actress, whose musical abilities achieved belated recognition with the 2006 release of the album Colour Green, compiled from songs she had recorded in the early 1970s. Her music is known for its plainness, emotional sincerity, and reference to mundane life in a folk style that's been compared to the works of Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake.
5:18 PM		The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band A Child's Guide to Good and Evil The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band A Child's Guide to Good and Evil Rhino 1967 Founded in L.A. in 1965. Aspiring musician and scenester Bob Markley managed to join the group the Laughing Wind in exchange for his connections in the music industry and substantial bankroll. The original five-piece line-up consisted of Michael Lloyd (rhythm guitar, vocals), Shaun Harris (bass guitar, vocals), Danny Harris (lead guitar, vocals), John Ware (drums), and Markley (tambourine, vocals).
5:21 PM		Foxygen Oh No Foxygen We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic Jagjaguwar 2013
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5:32 PM		Unknown Mortal Orchestra BOYS WITH THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WOLVES N CURSE - EP Jagjaguwar 2025
5:35 PM		Ty Segall Buildings Ty Segall N Possession Drag City 2025
5:39 PM		Walnut Brain basement 1 Walnut Brain N Weird Wire Petty Bunco 2025
5:40 PM		Roky Erickson If You Have Ghosts Roky Erickson The Evil One Light In The Attic Records 1980
5:43 PM		Pentagram The Ghoul Pentagram Relentless Peaceville Records 1985
5:49 PM		Supermalprodelica & Blason Still Supermalprodelica & Blason N Mer Changeante Bruit Direct disques 2025
5:51 PM		Radioactivity Danger Radioactivity Danger - Single Secret Mission Records 2017
5:53 PM		Strawberry Alarm Clock Barefoot In Baltimore Strawberry Alarm Clock Wake Up Where You Are Global Recording Artists 2012 Released in 1968. Strawberry Alarm Clock is a psychedelic rock band formed in 1967, originating in Glendale, California.
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6:00 PM		Eater Queen Bitch Eater N The Album (2024 Deluxe Edition) Cleopatra Records 2024
6:03 PM		Prince Buster Lucky 7 Prince Buster Fly Flying Ska Blue Beat 1964
6:05 PM		MF DOOM Lavender Buds MF DOOM Metal Fingers Presents: Special Herbs Vol. 5 & 6 Metalface Records 2004
6:08 PM		Gilbert O'Sullivan The Golden Rule Gilbert O'Sullivan Back to Front (Deluxe Edition) Salvo 1972
6:10 PM		The Dubliners The Unquiet Grave The Dubliners Now Celtic Airs 1975 "The Unquiet Grave" is an Irish / English folk song in which a young man's grief over the death of his true love is so deep that it disturbs her eternal sleep. It was collected in 1868 by Francis James Child as Child Ballad number 78.
6:16 PM		Steve Fisher & Mark Hittner Spooky Steve Fisher & Mark Hittner More Exciting & Dynamic Sounds of the Hammond B3 Organ V/A PTR 2020
6:20 PM		Lee Wiley Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love Lee Wiley Sings the Songs of George & Ira Gershwin & Cole Porter Audiophile 1988
6:23 PM		The New Bomb Turks Jukebox Lean The New Bomb Turks Scared Straight Epitaph 1996
6:25 PM		Saccharine Trust Just Think Saccharine Trust Worldbroken SST Records 1984
6:27 PM		Chris Bell I Am the Cosmos Chris Bell I Am the Cosmos Ardent Music 1992
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6:37 PM		Dave Edmunds Girls Talk Repeat When Necessary President Records 1978
6:40 PM		George Harrison Beware of Darkness (2014 Remaster) George Harrison All Things Must Pass (2014 Remaster) BMG Rights Management (US) LLC 1970
6:44 PM		Wondermints Proto Pretty Wondermints Forgotten 90's Alternative V/A Forgotten 90's Records 2021
6:48 PM		Neil Young & Crazy Horse Thrasher Neil Young & Crazy Horse Rust Never Sleeps Reprise 1979
6:54 PM		The Damned Plan 9 Channel 7 The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette Ace Records 1979
6:58 PM		Buzzcocks Autonomy Singles Going Steady (2019 Remastered Version) Domino Recording Co 1979
7:03 PM		Edna Vazquez El Árbol Edna Vazquez N Te Esperaba Heinz Records 2025 Edna Vazquez grew up in Jalisco, Mexico — the same place that gave birth to mariachi music. Although the style was traditionally reserved for men, in 1998 Vazquez (who now lives in Portland, Ore.) became one of the first female mariachi vocalists and vihuela players in the Pacific Northwest. https://www.ednavazquez.com/
7:05 PM		Neutral Milk Hotel Naomi Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island Merge Records 1996
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7:16 PM		Lee Wiley Looking at You Lee Wiley Sings the Songs of George & Ira Gershwin & Cole Porter Audiophile 1988
7:19 PM		Autocamper Somehow N What Do You Do All Day? Slumberland Records LLC 2025 https://autocamper.bandcamp.com/
7:24 PM		The Microphones Where Lies My Tarp? The Microphones the Glow pt. 2 disc two: Other Songs & Destroyed Versions P.W. Elverum & Sun 2008
7:28 PM		Elliott Smith Between the Bars Elliott Smith Either/Or Kill Rock Stars 1997
7:30 PM		Swans Oxygen Swans To Be Kind Young God Records 2014
7:38 PM		Artichoke One Hit Wonder In Search Of One Hit Artichoke N Artichoke Artichoke 2025
7:41 PM		Karen Dalton Other Side to This Life Karen Dalton 1966 Delmore Recording Society 2012
7:45 PM		Dos Santos How Far Are We from Here? Dos Santos N Logos International Anthem Recording Co. 2018
7:48 PM		Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Me and Mia Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Shake the Sheets Ted Leo 2012
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7:55 PM		Bauhaus The Passion of Lovers Bauhaus Mask (Bonus Track Version) Beggars Banquet 1981
7:58 PM		Guided By Voices Motor Away Guided By Voices Alien Lanes Matador 1995

Chat is archived.

hi!

HI!

good afternoon.

good afternoon, dale!

Hope you both are doing well:)

Good Afternoon from Los Angeles. I moved south to be closer to MrM

You’ll never find me

I’ve got eyes on you tho

Good afternoon, Francis!

haha Francis

and haha Mr. M.

HehHehHeh

Nice to hear you again, DJ Esoterica!

Thanks, Mr. M!

Hi, Stevie P!

This music is too angry for me

ha!

we will get to some punk, do not you worry.

this sibylle baier person is wonderful.

agree, dale

Hi Esoterica, Thanks for the auditory love!

Sending love and peace to you!

hey terbo! sending love and peace to you!

Open in Lambertville now! Thank you so much for the shout! 🥲🌸💜

wow, great, what is the gallery again?

A paywall obstructs that NY Times article but I read online that Judee Sill died in 1979.

Wynter Gallery, 4 N. Union St.

oh right that is coprrect. i knew that just misspoke! oops

hi david

thx for letting me know about the paywall

💜💜💜

Roky!!!

That's all I got

sean! hi

Hello there esoterica

Problems after problems signing into chat after refreshing page to see updates on playlist 🥵

huh

ok thanks!

sorry, dude

is there something i can do?

I thinks it’s usually an iPhone and Spinitron deal

ooohh

Or some such

Thanks though, LADY! Enjoying the show!

I was just listening to Pentangle today. A different band but their name means the same thing.

Sweet, Mr. M! Thanks!

True, David.

David (in a Johnny Carson voice): " I did not know that!"

ha, sean!

that is weird and wild stuff!

i gotta run, but i'll be listening in the car

nice, stevie:) thx for stopping by

It seems the Google option never works for the chat. I guess only people with Facebook accounts can join in.

that is weird. i usually use gmail

Eater’s Thinking of the USA was on a punk compilation I bought in 1978. And that Queen Bitch is probably the second Eater song I’ve ever heard.

Yes! Let’s blame Google! *the only access I use. It’s a glitch somewhere

cool, John. and hi btw

@David S Google sign in to chat is very frustrating if you have 2 tier security. Sometimes I give up, or get on way past when my comment is relavant.

Sorry I'm late - I was composing an email to WPRB with my artwork submission for the Fall

oh cool, randy! good luck! what i the art like/

*is

and hi!

Sometimes I'm offered to sign in w/either FB or gmail

THANKS!!!

LUKE KELLY!

hi bri!

and yes!

@esoterica - it's mostly grey, with sky blue & orange and a WPRB in the middle 😎

And Cooper Black text, where needed

sounds lovely, randy

Wilbo played that right on target cover of Halo of Flies (Alice) by Jello and Melvins today. Spot on.

oh wow, i missed it! bri

Well ya know Wilbo always repeats himself so he'll probably play it every week (<---- heavy sarcasm)

MF Doom Special Herbs.... great memory of The Sprawl with DJ Mickey. Those releases often used for his intro songs.

"sounds lovely, randy" thanks - I'm sure it will get "circulated around the office" so I'm sure you'll get to look at it in due time

yes, tho i am not in the main building but i will look for iut

ha, bri, yes, me too! (sometimes)

loved when mickey o fthe sprawl played mf doom

We'll have our people talk to your people and run it up the flagpole and throw it up and see what sticks to the wall and at the end of the day we'll just say it is what it is and pencil you in but hopefully it won't be just a nothing burger..... (sound of door slamming)

Thanks @Brian D - I'll take that action

We'll take a powder, and we'll take a memo, and we'll take the fifth....

miss the sprawl... thursdays were the bewst with micky, eso and lizbot back to back to back

Now that was a time...

@Brian - M*A*S*H?

Oh I just have a word tree outside the window of my head and pluck whatever falls fresh or rotten eh?

howdy mike t!

i miss the sprawl too

"We have bourbon, whiskey, and rye - for your convenience, all in the same bottle"

I forgot about the New Bomb Turks show in Brooklyn 11 days ago.

I forget which show was the first I heard on WPRB? I know it was an afternoon show, on my way home from work in Moorestown, and I might've left early that day to pick up my daughter from school - could've been a Thursday; I could NEVER get the hang of Thursday

@esoterica - spooky is my life(style), as my birthday is Halloween

Shared with Uncle Bob Pollard from GBV Randy. Good company.

that is cool, bri

send love and healing to dave edmunds who suffered cardiac arrest

hiya eso!

hiya andrew!

Loved Dave Edmonds he should have been the next big thing and everybody should be wearing Rockpile shirts now

agree sean

"Shared with Uncle Bob Pollard from GBV Randy" didn't know that!!! I post Larry Mullen, Jr (U2) Peter Jackson (LOTR), Ad-Rock/Adam Horovitz (Beastie Boys), Rob Van Winkle/Vanilla Ice

At least Nick Lowe still pops around

yes for sure

Hello Esoterica and everyone

Nick Lowe was Johnny Cash's son-in-law for a bit

Hello Rob!

Loved that one Rockpile record!!!

wow didn't know that randy

"Teacher, Teacher"

Saw Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets a few weeks back in a little park outside of Philly and it was so good. Right up close spit ball hittin target distance.

That's what I bring @esoterica LOL; I think every week I drop some nugget like that, don't I?LOL

The rockpile song " heart" Is one of the most sublime perfect 3-minute songs could have been by Buddy Holly

lowe was married to carlene carter, johnny's stepdaughter.

Teacher Teacher is just about a perfect a pop song. Love that one .Did a transcription of that one.

Los straightjackets cover of "my heart will go on" is the DEFINITIVE version

They did "Heart" the other night, Nick and L.S. yep a fine song.

wow nice, bri

yes, randy! love that version

oh yes, carlene, dale, that is right.

Thanks for that Thrasher. One of Neil's best. Some fine words there.

oh yes, of course:)

nice damned song....new to me.

yeah i like that one, dale

And for other cinematic Los Straitjackets moments, they did the Theme from Magnificent Seven in their instrumental segment

oh man how cool

Circling back @sean "Loved Dave Edmonds he should have been the next big thing and everybody should be wearing Rockpile shirts now" was there some beef between Chrissie Hynde & Dave Edmonds? It seemed like anyone she got behind moved forward but ...

hmm never heard that randy wow

Don't know, just thinking about it now

Rockpile would've been just the kind of thing she would've been into back in Akron, and certainly would've given them a push

Randy Wow should not be confused with Randy Now. https://mancavenj.com/

"In the early 1970s, rubber was still king in Akron, Ohio. But just a few short years later, Akron's most important product was, ever so briefly, music. In the mid-1970s, a group of local bands took over an old rubber workers' hang-out in downtown Akron called The Crypt and created a mix of punk and art rock that came to be known as "the Akron Sound." And for a while, it was almost "the next big thing." Almost. " https://youtu.be/fZmUWqCjquc?si=hH45KcKtmK8oMEsQ

I KNOW Randy Now!!!

And went to City Gardens DOZENS of times

Ya that def reminded me a bit of Linda R does Mexican music

Ohio is such a big part of the many decades of the rock and the roll

Without DEVO, "Rust Never Sleeps" never happens - make of that what you will

Ooh Autocamper, one of the half-dozen or so Slumberland CDs I recently purchased!

nice rob! they're good!

@Esoterica, after you played Lightheaded lat month, I was trying to decide to get just their latest or the Jeanines latest. I ended up purchasing every CD the label has put out this year, and they will be arriving soon.

Randy about rockpile, I never heard anything about Chrissie hynde like that but I don't follow rock gossip generally. I do know Nick was pretty disappointed when Dave didn't want to go out and tour and promote the seconds of pleasure album.

Nice, rob, are they on slumberland too?

Yes, both are on Slumberland!

now i need to dig into that label. thanks!

We went into New York City to see if we could get tickets for the Grateful Dead at the Garden, a place I abhorred I guess maybe 85 or so. Of course we couldn't get tickets and then we saw a flyer Dave Edmonds at the peppermint lounge so we went there.

Great show Bruce Springsteen showed up and played a few songs with him he had written "from small things big things come" for Dave

a better bet, sean. i bet it was great

I picked up Autocamper, Jeanines, Lightheaded, Allo Darlin, Lunchbox, and Pains of Being Pure at Heart. It is a great label.

omg bruce!

sean, that sounds like an amazing show!

thx rob! i am def checking all that out

Yeah it was great fantastic band we were right leaning on the stage when we weren't jumping and contorting our bodies vigorously

Allo Darlin has some really nice stuff. Took a little breakup break then got back together I think

@sean "Randy about rockpile, I never heard anything about Chrissie hynde like that but I don't follow rock gossip generally." pure speculation on my part - although, she was with Ray Davies then, so maybe she WAS trying to help them out but RAY squashed them? Swiping the (struggling) Kinks fan-base, maybe?

@sean: That song was released not long after Dave mistakenly dialed my big brother's newly installed phone line asking for Bruce, who'd moved out of town shortly before.

that Swans song was rad!

hey matt! yeah it is bombastic!

love me some bombast

yeah you do ha!

me, too

Karen's singing a Fred Neil song, which I first heard by Jefferson Airplane in the documentary "Gimme Shelter".

oh sweet david

bombast & repetition is my jam. PUMMEL ME WPRB

yes let's go!

@Esoterica, we both enjoyed your show tonight, thank you for the music

thx rob!

Thanks everyone:)

👍👍👍👍

see ya next week!

be well til then