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The Sonic Bloom

Oct 7, 2025 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Tuesday, it is.

howdy!

The Sonic Bloom
5:01 PM
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5:02 PM
Lalo Schifrin - Main Title
Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin
Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:06 PM
Black Sabbath - Lady Evil
Black Sabbath Lady Evil Black Sabbath
Heaven and Hell Rhino/Warner Records 1980
5:11 PM
Roger Williams - Homesick for New England
Roger Williams Homesick for New England Roger Williams
Temptation Kapp 1960
5:13 PM
Des Demonas - There Are No Vampires In Africa
Des Demonas There Are No Vampires In Africa Des Demonas
Des Demonas In The Red 2017
5:18 PM
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (2020 Remaster)
Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart (2020 Remaster) Joy Division
Love Will Tear Us Apart (2020 Digital Remaster) - Single WM UK 1980
5:22 PM
Ciccone Youth - Addicted to Love
Ciccone Youth Addicted to Love Ciccone Youth (Sonic Youth)
The Whitey Album Squeaky Squawk 1988
5:25 PM
Gustaf - Best Behavior
Gustaf Best Behavior Gustaf
Audio Drag for Ego Slobs Royal Mountain Records 2021
5:28 PM
Horsegirl - Billy
Horsegirl Billy Horsegirl
Versions of Modern Performance Matador 2022
Horsegirl is an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois, made up of Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece. In 2021, the group signed to Matador Records. In 2022, they released their debut studio album, Versions of Modern Performance. In 2025, they released their second studio album, Phonetics On and On.
5:32 PM
Ritual Howls - Coils and Magnets
Ritual Howls Coils and Magnets Ritual Howls
Into the Water felte 2016
https://ritualhowls.bandcamp.com/
5:37 PM
MC5 - High School
MC5 High School MC5
Back In the USA Rhino Atlantic 1970

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5:42 PM
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5:47 PM
Phil Ochs - Automation Song
Phil Ochs Automation Song Phil Ochs
All the News That's Fit to Sing Rhino/Elektra 1964
5:49 PM
Grand Funk Railroad - Inside Looking Out
Grand Funk Railroad Inside Looking Out Grand Funk Live Album
Grand Funk (Remastered) Capitol Records 1969
6:02 PM
INXS - Don't Change
INXS Don't Change INXS
Shabooh Shoobah Rhino Atlantic 1982
6:06 PM
Scorpions - Wind Of Change (Coming Home Live)
Scorpions Wind Of Change (Coming Home Live) Scorpions N
Wind Of Change (Coming Home Live) - Single RCA Records Label 2025
6:07 PM
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6:15 PM
Caural - Sorry, Underground Hip Hop Happened Ten Years Ago (for Regan)
Caural Sorry, Underground Hip Hop Happened Ten Years Ago (for Regan) N
Die Before You Die - EP Prism92 2011
6:15 PM
Supergrass - Hyacinth House (Débranché)
Supergrass Hyacinth House (Débranché) Supergrass N
Road to Rouen (20th Anniversary Edition) Echo 2025
6:18 PM
El Mantis - El Espectaculo
El Mantis El Espectaculo El Mantis N
El Mantis II C.I.A. Records Houston 2024
6:24 PM
Jz Barrell - One Way Mirror
Jz Barrell One Way Mirror Jz Barrell N
Don't Give Away Your Magic Hyperspace Records/Dupert Niles Music, BMI 2025
6:28 PM
The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday
The Monkees Pleasant Valley Sunday The Monkees
7" Colgems 1967
6:33 PM
The Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
The Animals Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood The Animals
Animal Tracks (Bonus Tracks) ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 1965
6:35 PM
Les Cloportes - Hindsight
Les Cloportes Hindsight Les Cloportes N
Love is on the way M Pop Recordings 2014
6:40 PM
Killing Joke - Requiem (2005 Digital Remaster)
Killing Joke Requiem (2005 Digital Remaster) Killing Joke
Killing Joke [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue 1980
6:43 PM
Magazine - About the Weather
Magazine About the Weather Magazine
Vinyl 7" Virgin 1981
6:47 PM
Wipers - Over the Edge
Wipers Over the Edge Wipers
Over the Edge Zenorecords 1983
6:51 PM
The Human League - Circus of Death
The Human League Circus of Death The Human League
Being Boiled/ Circus of Death 7" Fast Product 1978
6:56 PM
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6:59 PM
Unwound - December
Unwound December Unwound
Leaves Turn Inside You Numero Group 2001
7:03 PM
Geese - Au Pays du Cocaine
Geese Au Pays du Cocaine N
Getting Killed Partisan / Play It Again Sam 2025
7:07 PM
Young Marble Giants - Cakewalking 7"
Young Marble Giants Cakewalking 7" Young Marble Giants
Final Day 7" Rough Trade
7:10 PM
Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding - But Not for Me
Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding But Not for Me
Alive at the Village Vanguard Palmetto Records 2003
From 1930's musical Girl Crazy, written by George and Ira Gershwin.
7:19 PM
Esperanza Spalding - 'Til the Next (Eyes)
Esperanza Spalding 'Til the Next (Eyes) Esperanza Spalding
12 Little Spells (Deluxe Edition) Concord Records 2019
7:23 PM
Magazine - Rhythm of Cruelty (7" Single Version)
Magazine Rhythm of Cruelty (7" Single Version)
7 " vinyl Virgin 1979
7:26 PM
The Essex Green - The Late Great Cassiopia
The Essex Green The Late Great Cassiopia The Essex Green
The Long Goodbye Merge Records 2003
The Essex Green are a neo-psychedelic pop outfit from Brooklyn, NY, via Burlington, VT. The band is primarily composed of songwriters Jeff Baron, Sasha Bell, and Chris Ziter and specializes in a classic sound inspired by 1960s–1970s pop and folk in the tradition of bands like The Left Banke and Fairport Convention. Formed in 1997.
7:29 PM
The Doors - Unhappy Girl
The Doors Unhappy Girl The Doors
promo 45 from 1966 (my copy) Rhino/Elektra 1966
7:31 PM
Esquivel - Anna (El Negro Zumbon)
Esquivel Anna (El Negro Zumbon) Esquivel
Infinity In Sound, Vol. 2 RitmoDisc S.A. 1960

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7:35 PM
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
Steve Miller Band The Joker Steve Miller Band
The Joker Steve Miller - Owned 1973
7:37 PM
Eternity's Children - Lifetime Day (Mono)
Eternity's Children Lifetime Day (Mono) Eternity's Children
Eternity's Children Eternity's Children 1967
Eternity's Children was an American sunshine pop band that originated in Cleveland, Mississippi, as a folk group known as the Phantoms. The Phantoms began with two students, composed of vocalist/keyboardist Bruce Blackman and drummer Roy Whittaker.
7:40 PM
George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones He Stopped Loving Her Today
I Am What I Am Epic 1979
https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/HeStoppedLovingHerToday.pdf “He Stopped Loving Her Today” was featured on Jones's “I Am What I Am” LP. It was released as a single on April 12, 1980. It would be Jones's first number one song in six years and was such a country music smash that the Country Music Association would name it Song of the Year two years in a row, 1980 and 1981.
7:44 PM
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7:49 PM
Jesse Malin - T.K.O
Jesse Malin T.K.O Jesse Malin
The Fine Art of Self - Destruction (Deluxe) One Little Independent Records 2002
7:52 PM
Jon Caspi & The First Gun - Your Sister Flies (feat. Dan Bern)
Jon Caspi & The First Gun Your Sister Flies (feat. Dan Bern) Jon Caspi & The First Gun N
Airport Plaza - EP Jon Caspi & the First Gun 2025
7:55 PM
Human Adult Band - Monster Mash
Human Adult Band Monster Mash Human Adult Band N
Lo-Fi Haunts Self Released 2025
7:59 PM
Fever Tree - Come With Me (Rain Song)
Fever Tree Come With Me (Rain Song) Fever Tree
Fever Tree Geffen 1967
Chat is archived.
Esoterica (host) 5:03:00 PM
hey
Travis in Ganjarado 5:03:36 PM
Hey! Happy bloomin' Monday!
Esoterica (host) 5:03:56 PM
Hey, Travis! Happy Monday to you!:)
Tyler B. 5:12:16 PM
Haha what a transition
Esoterica (host) 5:12:28 PM
yeah not the smoothest either haha
Esoterica (host) 5:12:33 PM
hi tyler b!
Rob from Maryland 🦀 5:24:44 PM
Woo Ciccone Youth
Esoterica (host) 5:24:50 PM
woohoo!
Rob from Maryland 🦀 5:24:56 PM
And hi Esoterica and everyone
Esoterica (host) 5:25:19 PM
hi rob!
Rob from Maryland 🦀 5:25:28 PM
I'm not a fan as such but it is *great* to hear them!
Esoterica (host) 5:27:30 PM
sounds like bad karaoke in places but it has a place haha - doing robert palmer nonetheless.
Andrew G' 5:30:16 PM
whatup
Esoterica (host) 5:32:16 PM
yo andrew!
Travis in Ganjarado 5:41:48 PM
Haha, I guess it is Tuesday
Michael Youngkin 5:46:22 PM
Just saw Des Demonas opening for Neko Case Saturday. They were so good!
Esoterica (host) 5:48:08 PM
oh wow, michael - that is awesome.
Esoterica (host) 5:48:12 PM
and hi:)
Michael Youngkin 5:49:04 PM
Hello!
Esoterica (host) 5:52:42 PM
did you hear neko's interview on marc maron's podcast? good!
Michael Youngkin 6:00:59 PM
No I didn’t but I will check it out!
G Jax 6:05:31 PM
Damn miss grand Funk, but at least I'm catching part of this. Always thought and still do this was the best INXS song ever.
Esoterica (host) 6:07:04 PM
me, too, G Jax, love this song.
Esoterica (host) 6:07:16 PM
don't change that is.
G Jax 6:08:24 PM
Ha the Moscow music piece festival. Peace not peace.
G Jax 6:08:58 PM
That's what I think of when I hear this song. My wife was actually at that in Russia flew over.
G Jax 6:09:39 PM
She said Moscow was just as great as you imagine.
Esoterica (host) 6:13:55 PM
wow, G Jax, that is cool
G Jax 6:14:15 PM
Well, I'm driving. I just looked back and I did not say great I said gray as in the color gray
G Jax 6:15:04 PM
Very bleak soldiers everywhere. These kids were getting their first taste of freedom, but they couldn't get two out of line
Travis in Ganjarado 6:15:20 PM
"Yo, microphone check, one, two, what is this"
Dennis Smith 6:18:57 PM
Hello
Esoterica (host) 6:19:28 PM
howdy dennis!
Dennis Smith 6:19:35 PM
I reallllllly neeed to hear that yoyoyo track again. Is there a source to listen?
Esoterica (host) 6:20:34 PM
here it is: https://caural.bandcamp.com/album/die-before-you-die
Dennis Smith 6:21:59 PM
🤝 thank you times a million
Dennis Smith 6:22:32 PM
I think I recognize like 80 percent of them and it’s fun
G Jax 6:22:33 PM
I love this. It's CACAPHONIC!!!
Esoterica (host) 6:22:42 PM
sure thing! @dennis
G Jax 6:22:47 PM
If that's not a word, it is now
Esoterica (host) 6:23:04 PM
yeah i love this. it was just sitting in the barge, go figure!
G Jax 6:31:44 PM
Cool. The Barge huh? Any old shipping containers there? If you find one of them let me know. I wasn't to convert it into a house
G Jax 6:32:10 PM
Some of them shipping container homes are damn fine living. Ha ha.
Esoterica (host) 6:33:50 PM
yeah i was just watching tiny house nation - too small for me
Esoterica (host) 6:33:53 PM
lol
G Jax 6:35:58 PM
Yeah, me too tell the truth but the concept is cool. Honestly, I just need a small house and a huge garage or barn or something.
Esoterica (host) 6:36:15 PM
yeah i love the conservation aspect
Bob Bone 6:49:08 PM
Thank you for playing the wipers!!!
Esoterica (host) 6:50:01 PM
hey bob! of course:)
Rob from Maryland 🦀 6:50:57 PM
Yes, thank you for The Wipers!
Esoterica (host) 6:52:50 PM
Sure thing!:)
Esoterica (host) 6:53:05 PM
one of my fave bands the wipers for sure
G Jax 6:55:29 PM
did that fellow just utter Steve McGarrett? One of tenets of the Tao of Steve
Matt Sabbath 6:57:26 PM
rain on a clown car!
Esoterica (host) 7:00:17 PM
hey matt! yup
Esoterica (host) 7:00:21 PM
haha
G Jax 7:00:30 PM
Die before you die? Sorta like killed by death. Ahhh Lemmy ..
michael gudgeon 7:01:08 PM
fun set esoterica, liken this one a whoel lot
Matt Sabbath 7:01:30 PM
the mighty Unwound
Esoterica (host) 7:01:57 PM
yup, ha, G jax
Esoterica (host) 7:02:02 PM
yes, matt!
Esoterica (host) 7:02:16 PM
thx, michael, me, too
Richard of Rocky Hill 7:04:28 PM
@ Esoterica (host) Tuesday's Host is full of graceful (and fateful) '60s, '70s & 80's tracks :-D
Esoterica (host) 7:05:35 PM
aw thanks, richard:)
Joe Guarnaccia 7:19:01 PM
Enjoying this song. I didn't know she could sing.
Esoterica (host) 7:20:53 PM
hey joe, glad you liked it - yeah so talented.
Matt Sabbath 7:27:08 PM
Magazine!
Esoterica (host) 7:27:18 PM
oh yeah!
Richard of Rocky Hill 7:36:23 PM
@ Esoterica (host) Your very own copy of the 1966 promo single of The Doors "Unhappy Girl"???!!! I sure this (un)holy relic has the power to heal the sick and raise the dead ... (well, maybe not the dead Jim Morrison or Ray Manzarek, alas, but ...)
Esoterica (host) 7:36:33 PM
yup!
Richard of Rocky Hill 7:37:31 PM
Am I correct it's in mono?
Esoterica (host) 7:38:10 PM
yes
Esoterica (host) 7:38:16 PM
you are correct
Richard of Rocky Hill 7:39:05 PM
Thanks so much for spinning it, great fun! :-D
Esoterica (host) 7:40:21 PM
of course:)
Rob from Maryland 🦀 7:53:08 PM
We have enjoyed your show tonight, Esoterica
Esoterica (host) 7:54:26 PM
thx rob!:)
Rob from Maryland 🦀 7:57:01 PM
This almost sounds like Jonathan Richman is behind this cover
Esoterica (host) 7:57:14 PM
yeah it does! local from lambertville!
Rob from Maryland 🦀 7:58:15 PM
Yay!!
Esoterica (host) 7:59:43 PM
bye, y'all! see ya next week!
Rob from Maryland 🦀 7:59:50 PM
Thx & bye
Esoterica (host) 8:00:03 PM
:)