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The Sonic Bloom

Sep 23, 2025 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

The Sonic Bloom, your way...

howdy!

5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:06 PM		Teethe Anywhere Teethe N Magic Of The Sale Winspear 2025
5:11 PM		Tav Falco Crying For More (feat. Nicole Atkins & Richard Barone) Tav Falco N Desire On Ice Org Music 2025
5:13 PM		Major Stars Out in the Light Major Stars Roots of Confusion Seeds of Joy Drag City Records 2019
5:17 PM		The Shaggs That Little Sports Car The Shaggs Philosophy of the World Light In The Attic 1968 https://davescorneroftheuniverse.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/the-strange-self-fulfilling-prophecy-of-the-shags/
5:19 PM		Guy Clark L.A. Freeway Guy Clark The Essential Guy Clark RCA Records Label Nashville 1997
5:23 PM		Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell Bluebird Wine Old Yellow Moon Nonesuch 2013
5:28 PM		Gamble Rogers The Black Label Blues Gamble Rogers Heartworn Highways (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) V/A Light In The Attic 2016
5:31 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:36 PM		Souren Baronian Hey Yala Souren Baronian N The Middle Eastern Soul of Carlee Records V/A Sundazed Music / Modern Harmonic 2022
5:42 PM		Joan Jett Bad Reputation Joan Jett R Bad Reputation (Expanded Edition) Legacy Recordings 1981 HBD, Joan Jett! Going out to Rob!
5:45 PM	$Cell\Borg - Sideways$	Cell\Borg Sideways Cell\Borg N Smash Blips Dot Dash Sounds 2024
5:47 PM		Joan Jett You Don't Own Me (Previously Unreleased Version) Joan Jett Bad Reputation (Expanded Edition) Legacy Recordings 1981
5:50 PM		GelTab Radiance Gel Tab N GelTab Cia Records 2023
5:52 PM		The Primitives The Ostrich (Remastered 2024) The Primitives N Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65 Light in the Attic 2024
5:55 PM		Karen Dalton Same Old Man Karen Dalton In My Own Time Light in the Attic 1970
5:57 PM		Thee Sacred Souls Lucid Girl Thee Sacred Souls N Got a Story to Tell Daptone Records 2024 From San Diego!
6:01 PM		NODEGA & BODEGA Rot In Helvetica N Rot in Helvetica Chrysalis Records 2025
6:03 PM		Full Flower Moon Band Scene (feat. Gustaf) Full Flower Moon Band N Scene (feat. Gustaf) - Single Dirty Power Studios 2025
6:06 PM		Gustaf Starting and Staring Gustaf N Package, Pt. 2 Royal Mountain Records 2024
6:10 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:16 PM		Thee Oh Sees GLASS WINDOW Osees N ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST DEATHGOD CORP 2025
6:17 PM		Sofia Bolt Black Hole Sofia Bolt N Black Hole - Single Born Losers Records 2025
6:20 PM		Des Demonas Obsession Des Demonas N Apocalyptic Boom! Boom! In The Red 2024 https://des-demonas.bandcamp.com/album/apocalyptic-boom-boom
6:22 PM		Strawberry Switchblade Trees and Flowers Strawberry Switchblade 1982 4 Piece Demo - Single Night School 2017
6:29 PM		Hüsker Dü Flip Your Wig Hüsker Dü N Sept. 17 & 19th, Europe - EP 2025
6:31 PM		Maruja Saoirse Maruja N Pain to Power Music For Nations 2025
6:37 PM		Sibylle Baier I Lost Something in the Hills Sibylle Baier Colour Green Orange Twin 2006 https://sibyllebaier.com/
6:40 PM		Cabaret Voltaire Split Second Feeling Cabaret Voltaire Red Mecca Mute 1981
6:44 PM		Sextile Contortion Sextile Push Sacred Bones Records 2023 https://sextile.music/?srsltid=AfmBOoqEUaMZrATeLL0PRP_gnPLme552ruhor32A7voOZQTkULY64ZJ9
6:48 PM		Ill Wicker Under Diana Ill Wicker Under Diana electricity records 2014
6:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:58 PM		Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood Some Velvet Morning Nancy & Lee Boots Enterprises 1968
7:02 PM		SPRINTS Adore Adore Adore SPRINTS N Letter to Self City Slang 2024
7:05 PM		Killing Joke Eighties (2007 Digital Remaster) Killing Joke Night Time [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue 1985
7:10 PM		Fad Gadget Arch of the Aorta Fad Gadget Fireside Favourites Mute 1980
7:15 PM		Tom Waits Jersey Girl Tom Waits Heartattack and Vine (Remastered) Anti/Epitaph 1980
7:20 PM		shame Born in Luton shame Drunk Tank Pink Dead Oceans 2021
7:24 PM		FACS Skylarking FACS Negative Houses Trouble In Mind Records 2018
7:28 PM		The KVB Always Then The KVB Always Then Unlimited Dream Records 2012
7:32 PM		Sonic Youth Schizophrenia Sonic Youth Sister Squeaky Squawk 1987
7:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:40 PM		Tempers Strange Harvest Tempers Services Dais Records 2015
7:45 PM		BODEGA City Is Taken BODEGA N Brand On The Run Chrysalis Records 2024
7:48 PM		Soft Kill Wake Up Soft Kill Choke Cercle Social Records 2016
7:53 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:55 PM		Wire Ex Lion Tamer (2006 Remastered Version) Wire Pink Flag pinkflag 1977
7:57 PM		Linea Aspera Synapse Linea Aspera Linea Aspera Linea Aspera 2012

Chat is archived.

hi!

y0y0!

Esoterica!

Mike G!

HI Mike G!

Hi, TAndy!

y0y0!

Howdy everyone

Hey Rob!

y0y0 tandy!!!

rob!

erica all chatter

excited for some heaters

sweet! i will try to deliver:)

@Esoterica, could you play something by Joan Jett in honor of her 67th(!!) birthday yesterday?

Hey DJ Esoterica!!! Hey everyone!

Hi Esoterica, TAndy, michael, Kelly!

Hey Kelly!

sure, rob!

what joan jett do you want to hear?

Esoterica, how about "You Don't Know What You've Got" from her self-tilted debut album (aka Bad Reputation)? But anything, really

And thank you!

just looked up lyrics and she says shit at one point. i love bad reputation - is that ok?

Bad Reputation is perfect! Sorry about the other song

oh no worries, rob, wish i could play it.

Ty for that, and ty for this version of "You Don't Own Me"!

"Bad Reputation" is an imitation Ramones song that was far more successful and famous than any actual Ramones song.

hey david, yup

you are very wlecome, rob!

I think I need a visual aid to do this Lou Reed dance.

ha me too

@david

Dug that Ostrich tune. Not enough songs about ostriches.

had my ears on, very eclectic mix of tunes! hey now...

sweet, dale, glad you like?

hope you like:)

yes, of course!

thx!

The biopic “The Shaggs”, based on a 2011 stage musical, has been in pre-production for years. I wonder if its original score was composed to sound like the Shaggs’ actual music.

interesting question, david

Best backing vocal EVER on this

I saw Gustaf six years ago at the Whitechapel Projects, back when they had such shows. There’s nowhere in Long Branch to see good music anymore.

I see Tav Falco was played earlier. I saw his group at Maxwell's backing the late great Cordell Jackson. She would've turned 102 this year.

cool, david! you have seen alot of music

Like that De demonas track - reminds me a bit of Tall Cans in the Air by the Transplants

hey francis! i can see that

Des Demonas are now touring with Neko Case. They’ll play at the Met Philadelphia on October 4.

wow, I picked a great time to tune in

oh that is cool, david. i heard her on marc maron's podcast. she has been through alot with her family.

the mighty Husker Du

howdy jen, for sure!

yup, matt!

such a great set esoterica! im 50/50 headphones through my tv lovin all of it!

sweet, michael! thanks!

Do the Du

this is lovely.

There’s a chain of coffee shops in NJ called Booskerdoo. I asked a counterperson about its possible reference to Hüsker Dü. I don’t think she knew what I was talking about.

i love sibylle baier

haha david

doesn't mean it wasn't subconsciously inspired.

I agree with Dale

belated howdy! glad to be able to listen today. @David Booskerdoo????? really?

great to see you here, jen! as you know, big fan of your show

David S tis lonely to be punk

@esoterica the feeling is mutual!!

Jen is doing the robot rn

aw thanx jen!

haha matt i know she was lol

There's a location in Westchester County too. https://booskerdoo.com/

do the robot, do the Du

ha!

hahah here for it!!

Absolutely love this song! Creepy and cool toggling progressions

norman, hello!

me, too

I just received my new Sprints album in the mail! they just keep getting better.

nice, jen!

this is def up your alley, jen

When Lee Hazelwood got his terminal cancer diagnosis in 2005, he rerecorded that song with his granddaughter (actually named Phaedra) singing Nancy’s parts.

KJ!

love that song, matt

aw, david

oh man, another old favorite. you've got my number today.

thanks, jen!

glad to provide

Loving the entire show, Esoterica! It took my mind off a rare bird in DC that I only found out about an hour ago (Hopefully it will be around tomorrow)

oh no! but thanks for listening anyway, hopefully the'll be back:) rob

And it was great to hear the tuneful original of Some Velvet Morning, and not the, um, tuneless version of Roland S. Howard & Lydia Lunch that I know so well

Thx Eso. The bird is at the Capitol Reflecting Pool and the weather is not conducive (famous last words) to its departure. So I will likely try tomorrow morning

glad you liked tat tuneful version:)

that

Wow that Tempers thing was cool. Why I tune in.

agree, G Jax, great voice, no?

Ha missed Some Velvet Morning. Art Bell turned me on to that. Haha

I dug the Tempers use of synthesizers more than anything.

oh yeah, that,too

sets been dope! ty erica

awesome, michael, stoked you dig

Hey Eso, enjoying this song and decided to join chat. Bodega! Saw them at a free show at a local left of the dial Philly station a year ago. Nice to actually hear them again.

oh man, i want to see them, john. glad you are enjoying!

Soft Kill another one I never heard before. The older I get the more I appreciate this kind of stuff. Yeah I see it was recorded in 2016 but it's got that 80s new wavy synthy gothy whatever vibe which is decidedly what I was not into back when this music was more in fashion. Anyway, didn't catch your whole show, but what I have caught has been really, really awesome.

yeah i cal it modern post-punk - fresh tho

thanks G Jax! More next week.

Been lurking for an hour nor so, wanted to say good show! Also The Feelies covered Ex Lion Tamer at World Cafe Live on 9/13

Appreicate everyone saying hi in the chat, too!

so cool, chris! thanks for listening

bye, everyone!