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The Sonic Bloom

Aug 19, 2025 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Chris Stamey!

Listen in as I play a chat I had with Chris Stamey of the dBs.

5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:02 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:05 PM		Wings Venus and Mars Wings Venus and Mars (2014 Remaster) Paul McCartney Catalog 1975
5:08 PM		Chris Stamey (I Thought) You Wanted to Know Chris Stamey Ork Records: New York, New York Numero Group 2015
5:15 PM		Chris Stamey Interview Part I Chris Stamey Interview Part I 2025 2025
5:24 PM		Chris Stamey The One and Only (Van Dyke Parks) Chris Stamey The Great Escape Car Records 2023
5:27 PM		Chris Stamey Interview Part II Chris Stamey Interview Part II 2025 2025
5:41 PM		The Salt Collective Where the Wild Things Are (feat. Juliana Hatfield & Richard Lloyd) The Salt Collective N Where the Wild Things Are (feat. Juliana Hatfield & Richard Lloyd) - Single Propeller Sound Recordings 2023
5:44 PM		Let's Active Every Word Means No Let's Active Every Word Means No - Single Capitol Records 1983
5:48 PM		The Four Freshmen It's A Blue World Voices In Modern CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1955
5:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:53 PM		Deep Purple Highway Star Deep Purple R Machine Head Rhino/Warner Records 1972 HBD, Ian Gillan!
6:00 PM		Mike Polizze Around Sound N Around Sound Paradise of Bachelors 2025
6:06 PM		Thee Oh Sees Pixelated Moon Osees N SORCS 80 Castle Face 2024
6:09 PM		The Circulators Broken Mirrors The Circulators N Insufficient Fun Total Punk 2024 From San Francisco.
6:11 PM		The Sleeveens Give My Regards to the Dancing Girls The Sleeveens N The Sleeveens Dirtnap Records 2024 From bandcamp: "When Irish-born Count Vaseline/The Mighty Stef songwriter Stef Murphy met Stiff Little Fingers guitar tech Jamie Mechan in Nashville, Tennessee, it began a musical partnership of the highest order. After cranking out a few tunes at Mechan’s fledgling studio, 302 Sound, the duo started recruiting other musicians. The band was rounded out by drummer Ryan Sweeney (Cheap Time) and Eli Steele (Sweet Knives.) Dubbing themselves The Sleeveens, an Irish term for a trixter, the band got to work."
6:13 PM		Class Be-Bop with the Rats Class N A Healthy Alternative Feel It Records 2024 From Tucson!
6:16 PM		Motorbike Afraid of Guns Motorbike N Kick It Over Feel It Records 2025 From Cincinatti!
6:18 PM		Neutrals Phantom Arcade Neutrals N New Town Dream Slumberland Records LLC 2024 From Oakland, CA.
6:22 PM		Kenyon Hopkins Ghost Train Kenyon Hopkins Ridin' The Rails 1960
6:25 PM		Erik Nervous Short Attention Erik Nervous Assorted Anxieties Nailbiter Records 2018
6:25 PM		Skull Cult Into the White Skull Cult Braindead - EP Going Underground 2019
6:27 PM		Tropical Fuck Storm Stepping On A Rake Tropical Fuck Storm N Fairyland Codex Fire Records 2025 Tropical Fuck Storm are an Australian rock band and supergroup from Melbourne, Victoria, formed by Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin from The Drones.
6:37 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:38 PM		Black Country, New Road Besties Black Country, New Road N Forever Howlong Ninja Tune 2025 Black Country, New Road are an English rock band formed in Cambridge in 2018.
6:41 PM		Crime San Francisco's Doomed Crime San Francisco's Doomed Superior Viaduct 1991
6:43 PM		The Dils Tell Her You Love Her The Dils Class War Bacchus Archives 2000 The Dils were an American punk rock band formed 1976 and active until 1980, originally from Carlsbad, California, and fronted by the brothers Chip Kinman and Tony Kinman.
6:47 PM		Donovan Hurdy Gurdy Man Donovan The Hurdy Gurdy Man Epic 1968
6:48 PM		Obits The City Is Dead Obits Let Me Dream If I Want To - Single Sub Pop Records 2012
6:52 PM		Eater Sweet Jane Eater N The Album (2024 Deluxe Edition) Cleopatra Records 2024 Eater was from North London (Finchley).
6:55 PM		Chelsea No Flowers Chelsea Alternative Hits STRIKE FORCE ENTERTAINMENT 1979 Chelsea are an English punk rock band which formed in 1976.
6:57 PM		999 I'm Alive 999 999 Parlophone UK 1978 999 are an English punk rock band, formed in London in December 1976. From 1976 to 1985, their line-up consisted of Nick Cash, Guy Days, Jon Watson and Pablo LaBritain. LaBritain was temporarily replaced in 1980 by drummer Paul Edwards while he recovered from a motor accident.
7:01 PM		Angels of Light Song For Nico Angels of Light How I Loved You Young God Records 2001
7:05 PM		Slint Breadcrumb Trail (Remastered) Slint Spiderland (Remastered) Touch and Go Records 1991
7:11 PM		Unwound Look a Ghost Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You Numero Group 2001 Unwound is an American post-hardcore band formed in 1988 in Tumwater and Olympia, Washington. It presently consists of vocalist-guitarist Justin Trosper, bassist Jared Warren, drummer Sara Lund, and guitarist Scott Seckington.
7:14 PM		The Groundhogs Eccentric Man Groundhogs Thank Christ for the Bomb Fire Records 1970
7:22 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:23 PM		Neutral Milk Hotel King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. 2 & 3 Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Merge Records 1998
7:26 PM		Wipers Up Front Wipers Is This Real? Zenorecords 1980
7:29 PM		The Damned Melody Lee Machine Gun Etiquette Ace Records 1979
7:31 PM		The Cramps Lonesome Town Off the Bone EMI Records 1989
7:34 PM		Jawbox Bullet Park Jawbox Grippe + 5 Dischord Records 1991
7:37 PM		13th Floor Elevators Fire Engine (Stereo LP Version) 13th Floor Elevators The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators Charly 1966
7:41 PM		Samantha e Adrian Depois do Amor Samantha e Adrian N Samantha e Adrian Linear Labs 2025
7:43 PM		Superchunk The First Part Superchunk Foolish (Remastered) Merge Records 1994
7:48 PM		Echo & The Bunnymen The Cutter Echo & The Bunnymen Porcupine Rhino/Warner Records 1983
7:54 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:55 PM		Killing Joke Kings and Queens (2007 Digital Remaster) Killing Joke Night Time [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue 1985
7:59 PM		Tee Vee Repairmann Checkout Queue Tee Vee Repairmann What's On TV? Total Punk 2023

Chat is archived.

hey

hey!

hey ParrScream!

hope you are doing just dandy.

Howdy Esoterica and ParrScream

Howdy Rob!

Hey Rob!

I am dandy and fine. Heading down the shore later for the last hurrah of summer. Down until Sunday. Then crap gets real with kids sports and school.

Oooh Venus and Mars

talking movies, have you seen the Korean film Burning, it's on Criterion till the end of the month, definitely worth your time

Hey, where did the song go?

i was asking myself te same question! haha

the

hey gary, i will check it out!:)

Oh well, something else to listen to when your show is over

i will replay it! it bugges me, ,et's see if it was human or digital error

bugged

Hey there. For a second I thought this was "The 3 o'clock" 80's paisly stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSIn7g1h7YA

that is funny bc I have the three o' clock cued up

hey francis

lol - great minds

agreed, francis

Ian Gillan birthday? Keep it warm? Born Again.

hey jon! i didn;t know thhta - good idea. i will see what i can do

*that

sorry i am a terrible typist haha

Or Purple or Jesus Christ Superstar! One of each....

i brought machine head into the station

love gillan's gethsemane

Awesome choice ! Go Ian!!!

oh, good! glad you like

Nice

hey space

hbd ian gillan

Does your copy of that Wings album have the “Comparative Sizes of Sun and Planets” sticker? It’s needed updating since Pluto’s demotion in 2006.

ha good point, david!

i actually played the digital version, so i will have to check my album at home. does yours?

My sister had the LP. I applied the sticker to a small desk I had in the 70's.

ha!

@david

FYI - if anyone has a chance to catch the Osees - I highly reccommend it

i want to, francis

the osees play philly october 24!

but their website doesn't say where

do you know, @francis?

I see them in Los Angeles, and they've been playing a lot. Sorry - don't know about other tour dates

October 24 – Philadelphia, PA October 25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw October 26 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw

cool, thx!

Diggin this Ghost Train! Always discovering new music via old music.

Loving this show Esoterica. Thank you!

yeah the album i have is signed by soeone who had the LP in 1960 when it came out

to be named I guess, and depending on ticket sales maybe?

hey harry, thanks!

right i assume as well. thanks francis

hey john, i like it too (see earlier comments about the comments on lp i have)

The Three O'Clock’s Michael Quercio founded the Paisley Underground Consortium, webcast every Sunday on LuxuriaMusic.com. He turned it over to his cohost in 2023 though.

cool, david. thx i will def check it out

Did I hear Cheap Time mentioned? I saw them with the Ribeye Brothers at the Brighton Bar in 2014.

yes! one of the bands i played (Tropical F Storm) has a member in it

a member of cheap time

were they good, david?

I can hardly recall. I more vividly remember Let's Active opening for T.S.O.L. at a City Gardens all-ages show in 1984.

oh cool

The Dils should've got more screen time in "Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke".

haha yes!

I love love love this Donovan song! :-D

This song makes me think I might've liked Led Zeppelin if it had Donovan instead of Robert Plant.

aw me, too, rob

ha! david

When Black Flag first toured Britain they were met with hostility by Chelsea, as Henry Rollins amusingly recounts.

The 999 song was excellent!

agreed, thanks, rob!

huh never heard that story - iw ill look it up, david

SLINT!! We are both happy

I saw 999 at the Village Underground in 2003. Arturo Bassick from the Lurkers was playing bass. When he punted my backpack, I ran to retrieve it and lost my good spot centerstage.

This makes me want to listen to June of 44

hey kelly yeah that would be nice, too

yo, rob! that is great

Unwound will always do nicely :)

oh sweet! i can get some june of 44 on next week!

Awesome, thanks DJ Esoterica!

:) Looking forward to it, Kelly!

Alejandro Escovedo’s show three days ago at Asbury Park’s Transparent Clinch Gallery was sold out, but I wasn’t gonna pay $75 for a ticket anyway.

right i saw the pix

i don't blame you david

I don't think Ricky Nelson ever broke down sobbing when he performed this song.

ha right

Great stuff DJ E! The Cramps! Hurdy Gurdy Man! Love the Butthole Surfers' version.

hey matt sabbath! thx! Ilike to party on tuesday nights!

i like, that is

and thx

i love the BS version too of HG Man

Hey great show tonight DJ e! Whole family enjoyed it

The perfect show tonight, Esoterica, thank you!!!!

Woo!!! I'll try to keep the party going, thanks Esoterica!

chef patti! woot!

thx rob:)

the dude!!

nice to see you all

patti, you def will keep the party going! I will be listening:)

thx everyone for listening. see ya friday! i am fillingin for will at 10 am

ahem sonny boy