Esoterica (host)
5:01:07 PM
hey
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The Sonic Bloom
Sep 2, 2025 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Music
With Esoterica
Happy new PRB season!
Hi! The Sonic Bloom, your way...
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| JFA Baja JFA Valley of the Yakes Placebo Records 1983
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| Pavement Trigger Cut / Wounded-Kite At :17 Pavement Slanted & Enchanted Matador 1992
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| Echo & The Bunnymen Never Stop (Discotheque) Echo & The Bunnymen Porcupine (Expanded Version) Rhino/Warner Records 2004
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| Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
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| 5:14 PM |
| Smirk Bad Behavior Smirk N Bad Behavior - Single Smirk Records 2024
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| Circle Jerks Don't Care Circle Jerks Group Sex Cobraside/Porterhouse 1979
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| Zero Boys Trying Harder Zero Boys Vicious Circle Secretly Canadian 1981
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| 5:24 PM |
| Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends Who Dares? Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends N The Way of the Neutron Seismic Wave Entertainment 2025
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| 5:26 PM |
| Reagan Youth Brave New World (8 Track - Hi-Five Demo 10/24/82) Reagan Youth The Poss Tapes: 1981-1984 Cleopatra Records 2023
From Queens formed in early 1980. |
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| Wire Mercy (2006 Remastered Version) Wire Chairs Missing pinkflag 1978
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| Yaz Situation Yaz Upstairs at Eric's Rhino/Warner Records 1982
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| ABC Poison Arrow ABC The Lexicon of Love EMI 1982
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| Magazine Upside Down Magazine The Correct Use of Soap Virgin Catalogue 1980
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| 5:49 PM |
| Gang of Four Contract Gang of Four Entertainment! (Remastered) Matador 1979
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| Garland Jeffreys Wild in the Streets Wild in the Sreets - Single 1977
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| 5:55 PM |
| Roxy Music Do the Strand (Live) Roxy Music Viva! Roxy Music (Live) EG Records 1976
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| The Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue Emotional Rescue (2009 Remaster) Polydor Records 1980
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| Hoagy Carmichael Riverboat Shuffle Hoagy Carmichael The Definitive Hoagy Carmichael Collection BOFM Ltd 1960
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| Hiroshi Yoshimura FEEL Hiroshi Yoshimura Green Light in the Attic 1986
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| 6:16 PM |
| Jeff Mangum I Love How You Love Me (Live) Jeff Mangum Live at Jittery Joe's Orange Twin 2000
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| 6:19 PM |
| The Jesus Lizard Panic In Cicero The Jesus Lizard Down Touch and Go Records 1994
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| 6:22 PM |
| Kenny Dorham Sao Paolo Kenny Dorham Una Mas (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered] Blue Note Records 1999 From 1963.
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| 6:29 PM |
| Kristine Leschper Writhe and Wrestle Kristine Leschper The Opening, or Closing of a Door Anti/Epitaph 2022
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| 6:34 PM |
| Krokodil The 12th Of March Krokodil Getting Up For The Morning Bacillus 1971 Swiss band formed in the late 60s.
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| Lindisfarne Fog On the Tyne Lindisfarne Anthology Renaissance Records 2007
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| Kraftwerk The Robots Kraftwerk The Man-Machine (Remastered) Parlophone UK 1978
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| 6:51 PM |
| Linton Kwesi Johnson Loraine Linton Kwesi Johnson Bass Culture UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1980
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| 6:57 PM |
| Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Dom Salvador Os Ancestrais Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad N Os Ancestrais - Single Jazz Is Dead 2024
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| 6:59 PM |
| Shabazz Palaces Take Me To Your Leader (feat. Lavarr the Starr) Shabazz Palaces N Exotic Birds of Prey Sub Pop Records 2024
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| Roxy Music 2 H.B. Roxy Music Roxy Music EG Records 1972
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| 7:15 PM |
| Gary Numan, Tubeway Army Are 'Friends' Electric? gary numan Replicas (Remastered) Beggars Banquet 1998
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| Tubeway Army & Gary Numan Down in the Park Tubeway Army, Gary Numan Down in the Park - Single Beggars Banquet 1979
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| T. Rex Buick Mackane T. Rex The Slider T-Rex Catalog (Spirit Music) 1972
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| Grace Bergere All Tomorrow's Parties (feat. Thurston Moore) Grace Bergere N All Tomorrow's Parties (feat. Thurston Moore) - Single Casa Gogol Records 2025
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| Oscar Peterson Where or When N Piano Solos Mercury 1950 "Where or When" was written by Richard Rodgers for the 1937 play, Babes in Arms.
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| The Rolling Stones I Got the Blues The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (2015 Remaster) Polydor Records 1971
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| Marianne Nowottny Both Sides Now Marianne Nowottny N Marzanna Abaton Book Company 2025
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| 7:42 PM |
| Neil Young Tonight's the Night Tonight's the Night Reprise 1975
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| 7:52 PM |
| Molchat Doma Belaya Polosa (The Crystal Method x Future Funk Squad Dub Remix) Molchat Doma N Belaya Polosa (The Crystal Method x Future Funk Squad Remix) - Single Sacred Bones Records 2025
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| SQÜRL Funnel of Love (feat. Madeline Follin) SQÜRL Only Lovers Left Alive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sacred Bones Records 2021
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| 7:59 PM |
| SQÜRL Starfish SQÜRL N Music for Man Ray Sacred Bones Records 2024
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Chat is archived.
Kelly Nielsen
5:03:58 PM
It's Sonic Bloom time! Hi DJ Esoterica
Esoterica (host)
5:04:16 PM
hey Kelly! how does it sound?
Esoterica (host)
5:04:31 PM
got some new equipment - coming in loud and clear i hope
Kelly Nielsen
5:04:35 PM
Sounds great
Esoterica (host)
5:04:40 PM
yay thx
Kelly Nielsen
5:04:42 PM
Absolutely
John Coffey
5:07:14 PM
Hi Esoterica, same Bat time, same Bat channel this fall? Adjusting my WPRB DJ schedules.
Esoterica (host)
5:08:18 PM
yes, john! tuesday nights it is! 5-8 eastern
Kelly Nielsen
5:18:19 PM
The show is kicking so much butt so far
Esoterica (host)
5:18:53 PM
aw thanks!
Ossy
5:22:20 PM
Afternoon es!
Esoterica (host)
5:24:07 PM
hey os
Kelly Nielsen
5:28:39 PM
Reagan Youth!
Esoterica (host)
5:29:45 PM
yes!!
Rob from Maryland 🦀
5:32:39 PM
Hello
Esoterica (host)
5:32:52 PM
Hello, Rob!
Rob from Maryland 🦀
5:37:49 PM
Howdy Esoterica! What a great situation I'm in right now, listening to WPRB
Esoterica (host)
5:38:42 PM
:) Thanks, Rob! Me, too!
G Jax
5:45:56 PM
Ha. Early MTV-ish. This was NOT my music then. But it IS now.
Esoterica (host)
5:46:08 PM
haha well good then, G Jax!
G Jax
5:47:59 PM
Suburban metalhead roots. Synthy pop haircut dandy boys was not acceptable. Haha
Esoterica (host)
5:48:08 PM
haha
G Jax
5:49:27 PM
Somewhere along the line you just realize music is music. It's all good.
Esoterica (host)
5:50:17 PM
yeah agreed:)
G Jax
5:51:30 PM
Not all realize that though. I know people still locked into nothing but hard rock/heavy metal and nothing else.
G Jax
5:52:25 PM
I mean I'd still listen to Iron Maiden.
G Jax
5:52:36 PM
But only at gun point.
G Jax
5:53:00 PM
Cool. Garland Jeffries
G Jax
5:53:18 PM
LOVE this
Esoterica (host)
5:53:22 PM
me, too!
G Jax
5:56:22 PM
Didn't MTV play a live video of him doing Wild In The Streets pretty regularly. My memory is he was some kind of Panama hat or domethinh
Esoterica (host)
5:57:23 PM
yes i have seen a panama hat in some of his pix
Esoterica (host)
5:57:31 PM
i think he is 82!
Inspector Callahan
5:58:19 PM
I'm fed up with fandango
G Jax
5:58:47 PM
82 huh? Yeah he's gotta be up there. Scary how close I'm getting to "up there" though
Esoterica (host)
5:59:24 PM
you and me both!
Inspector Callahan
6:00:03 PM
But not Country Life 😇
Esoterica (host)
6:00:22 PM
Like you said, G Jax, it's all good!
G Jax
6:00:37 PM
Emotional Rescue was a fantastic record all the way through. Way underrated
Esoterica (host)
6:00:40 PM
hey there, inspector!
Esoterica (host)
6:00:49 PM
you mean zztop fandango?
Inspector Callahan
6:01:08 PM
Greetings from scenic Trenton!
G Jax
6:01:20 PM
Tatto You was bigger but Emotional Rescue was better I think
Inspector Callahan
6:01:44 PM
No it's a line from The Strand!
G Jax
6:01:53 PM
o
Inspector Callahan
6:02:40 PM
"Are you fed up with fandango"
Esoterica (host)
6:02:58 PM
oh right!! haha you are on step ahead of me:)
Esoterica (host)
6:03:31 PM
G Jax, the Tattoo You concert was my first ever big stadium show! excellent!
Esoterica (host)
6:03:44 PM
yeah I agree re: emotional rescue
Inspector Callahan
6:03:56 PM
Are you going to see 10cc at the Keswick in October?
G Jax
6:04:10 PM
Skipped that and turned cartwheels across the floor..
G Jax
6:05:15 PM
Yeah I was at the first show of that tour at JFK. On the field
Esoterica (host)
6:05:47 PM
oh man, no i am not but I am going to see sparks!
Esoterica (host)
6:05:55 PM
@inspector
Inspector Callahan
6:05:57 PM
Nice!
Inspector Callahan
6:06:56 PM
Saw Roxy in Philly about thirty years ago
G Jax
6:07:07 PM
Saw a Pagan get baton bashed by a bunch of horseback cops as we were leaving the show. Ahh JFK was always crazy
Esoterica (host)
6:07:38 PM
oh my goodness, G Jax
G Jax
6:08:03 PM
I was assuming you were at the JFK show but weren't you in California then?
Esoterica (host)
6:08:16 PM
a weird counterpart to altamount where the hells angels were doing "security"
John Coffey
6:08:51 PM
@Inspector C, long time 10cc fan (first 4 albums) and Godley Creme. It hurt me that Graham Gouldman is dragging this band on tour in 2025. Money grab at it's worst.
Inspector Callahan
6:09:05 PM
I saw hollow moon security beat the living... out of gatecrashers ar Aerosmith show in Trenton Fiairgrounds in 75.
Inspector Callahan
6:09:31 PM
Hope they're doing some Sheet Music
G Jax
6:10:06 PM
Yeah in Philly was the Pagans. But yeah the Stones kinda drew the 1%ers kind of a legacy to Altamont
Inspector Callahan
6:11:03 PM
Knew some Pagans bad dudes
G Jax
6:12:06 PM
Yeah spent a lot of time in Delco in the 80s. Pagans were everywhere.
Esoterica (host)
6:17:38 PM
have you read hunter s thompson hells angels?
G Jax
6:19:10 PM
I did read that actually. Also read the Sonny Barger biography. Was into all that for a whike
G Jax
6:21:02 PM
I wasn't a biker but I rode. A lot. My Harley turned in an engagement ring. Haha
Inspector Callahan
6:23:01 PM
I had two wedding bands melted down for beer money
Esoterica (host)
6:23:14 PM
haha G Jax
Esoterica (host)
6:23:22 PM
ha inspector
Inspector Callahan
6:25:32 PM
Bill Bruford said he left Yes to play "jazz" with Bob Fripp
Esoterica (host)
6:25:44 PM
wow
G Jax
6:27:41 PM
I like calling him Bob Fripp. Sounds like the neighbor you took to about what he fertilizes his lawn with.
Esoterica (host)
6:28:01 PM
right lol
Inspector Callahan
6:28:04 PM
Bet he doesn't like it
G Jax
6:28:10 PM
Hey Bob, lawns looking good this year..
Inspector Callahan
6:29:10 PM
Those vids of him and Toya oh my
G Jax
6:29:45 PM
Getting crafty with your lawn Bob??
Esoterica (host)
6:29:55 PM
right, inspector
G Jax
6:30:04 PM
Haha.., see what I did there?
Inspector Callahan
6:30:15 PM
He was just on a row boat
Esoterica (host)
6:30:23 PM
haha G Jax
Inspector Callahan
6:33:10 PM
Ten years ago I cornered Abrian Belew in a men room hall at Besrsville in Woodstock NY he looked at me like I was Mark David Chapman
Esoterica (host)
6:34:31 PM
haha that is hilarious
Esoterica (host)
6:34:38 PM
@inspector
Inspector Callahan
6:34:44 PM
I thought so he didn't
Esoterica (host)
6:34:50 PM
i guess not
Inspector Callahan
6:35:34 PM
Was a great show with Levin did all the Discipline stuff
Esoterica (host)
6:36:24 PM
wow - i saw king crimson at san diego state in the 80s
Esoterica (host)
6:36:42 PM
that is cool, inspoector
Inspector Callahan
6:37:11 PM
Bet that was great did you see them four years ago with the Zappa band?
Esoterica (host)
6:37:28 PM
no i missed that
Esoterica (host)
6:37:33 PM
did you?
G Jax
6:37:58 PM
Tony Levin is the G Gordon Liddy of rock n' roll.
Inspector Callahan
6:38:11 PM
Played all the old KC stuff with three drummers !
Inspector Callahan
6:38:54 PM
He sure does look like Liddy
Esoterica (host)
6:39:43 PM
wow
G Jax
6:39:54 PM
Great bass player. Have to say not a huge fan of the Chapman Stick
Inspector Callahan
6:40:09 PM
I always thought Ted Nugent looks like Aileen Wornos 🤣
Rob from Maryland 🦀
6:41:59 PM
The fog on the Tyne is all mine!! :-))
G Jax
6:42:19 PM
Had to look her up. There is some resemblance
Esoterica (host)
6:42:37 PM
yes rob!
Esoterica (host)
6:43:01 PM
i don't see the wuornos/nugent resemblance
Inspector Callahan
6:43:41 PM
Things getting a little out there! Result of too much see drugs and rock and roll
Esoterica (host)
6:44:05 PM
weirdly my daughter siad she saw a doc about aileen w and she apparently had carnival by natalie merchant played as her last song
G Jax
6:44:13 PM
I'm always doing that. I seethings in people faces that others don't see. I get the AW/TN similarities
Inspector Callahan
6:44:50 PM
Yup and siad some other choice things
Inspector Callahan
6:45:14 PM
Faces come out of the rain...
Esoterica (host)
6:45:38 PM
haha i get it
Rob from Maryland 🦀
6:47:28 PM
Esoterica, that Lindisfarne song was a minor hit in 1974 when I was in Europe and listening to Radio Luxembourg after dark in Naples Italy
Inspector Callahan
6:47:37 PM
And please excuse my penmanship old age and vision nit a good combo
Esoterica (host)
6:48:58 PM
oh i am right there with you with the typos
Inspector Callahan
6:49:31 PM
Thank You I'm not alone there
Mike (O)))))
6:50:46 PM
We R The Robots -- Das Banger! Thank You!
Esoterica (host)
6:51:10 PM
hey Mike! thx!
Selecta Jerry
6:53:42 PM
LKJ 🔥🎶
Esoterica (host)
6:54:02 PM
yo good evening, selecta!
Esoterica (host)
6:54:12 PM
thx for stopping by
Selecta Jerry
6:54:54 PM
Try to tune in as often as possible 🫡
Matt Sabbath
6:56:13 PM
nice dub DJ!
Inspector Callahan
6:56:15 PM
What is kraught rock? Misspelled intentionally Like math rock? Why does all music have to have a label now...
Esoterica (host)
6:57:30 PM
hey matt!
Esoterica (host)
6:58:14 PM
aw thx selecta
Esoterica (host)
6:58:52 PM
idk with the misspelling, inspector
Selecta Jerry
6:59:34 PM
Love all the family vacation pics on IG esoterica. Looks like you had a fab summer
Esoterica (host)
7:02:31 PM
aw thx! we did. hope you had a rockin summer too
Selecta Jerry
7:04:14 PM
Yes and looking to keep it going into September for sure
Esoterica (host)
7:10:56 PM
you and me both. getting to jamaica?
Selecta Jerry
7:12:28 PM
No Ja on the horizon unfortunately
Rob from Maryland 🦀
7:15:13 PM
Friends are electric
Esoterica (host)
7:15:48 PM
oh yeah - have you seen mindhunter? they have a great soundtrack and this was on it
Marcus Haupt
7:31:00 PM
Hello Esoterica! Thanks for playing down in the park. Don’t forget
Esoterica (host)
7:31:34 PM
hey marcus! sure thing
Marcus Haupt
7:33:50 PM
Don’t forget “change your mind” by Sa
Marcus Haupt
7:34:29 PM
Sharpe and numan
Esoterica (host)
7:34:39 PM
oh yeah
Esoterica (host)
7:36:32 PM
Marcus, sorry, was that a request?:)
Mike (O)))))
7:45:09 PM
Thanks as always for such a Great Show!
Esoterica (host)
7:45:18 PM
hey mike thanks!!
Rob from Maryland 🦀
7:49:55 PM
Great show as always, thanks, Esoterica!
Esoterica (host)
7:51:38 PM
thx rob!
Esoterica (host)
7:58:54 PM
bye everyone!