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The Sonic Bloom

Dec 9, 2025 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

The show before the GLAM SHOW!

Garage, anyone?

5:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:01 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:05 PM		Buzzcocks Love Is Lies Buzzcocks Love Bites (Remastered) Domino Recording Co 1978
5:09 PM		Lana Del Rey Once Upon a Dream Lana Del Rey Maleficent (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Walt Disney Records 2014
5:12 PM		Fred Neil The Dolphins Fred Neil The Many Sides of Fred Neil Capitol Records 1998 From 1966, originally.
5:17 PM		Lizzy Mercier Descloux My Funny Valentine Lizzy Mercier Descloux From Heaven with Love ZE Records 2011
5:20 PM		Liza Minnelli Mein Herr Liza Minnelli Cabaret (Original 1972 Movie Soundtrack) Geffen 1972
5:23 PM		Don Voorhees and His Orchestra My Blue Heaven Don Voorhees and His Orchestra Parlor Dance 1920s Style V/A Van Up Records 2018
5:28 PM		Insecure Men Love Again Insecure Men N A Man For All Seasons Fat Possum 2025 https://fatpossum.com/collections/insecure-men
5:31 PM		Francisco Canaro: El Embajador Del Tango Sentimiento Gaucho Francisco Canaro Parnaso 1964
5:33 PM		Monde UFO Low Hill Monde UFO N Flamingo Tower, Nobody Cares EP Fire Records 2025 Monde UFO, LA-based duo of Ray Monde and Kris Chau, are a monochromatic sunset for the senses. A sonic journey through psychedelia, space rock and jazz.
5:38 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:45 PM		The Silver Snails U Say U Know The Silver Snails N Speed of Light Snailform Records 2025 The Silver Snails are a fully independent pop music project based in the medieval wine country of Romagna, Italy, with strong ties to the West Coast. Anchored by the husband and wife team of Lucas Ward and Elisa Fantini, their mission is to open human hearts through song. The Silver Snails draw from a diverse palette of musical influences including classic rock and pop, Beethoven, electronica, Irish, jazz, Nigerian, Kawali, Asian folk music, and more. https://www.thesilversnails.com
5:49 PM		John Cameron Mitchell Moonage Daydream (From Shrill: Season 2) John Cameron Mitchell Moonage Daydream (From Shrill: Season 2) - Single WaterTower Music 2020
5:52 PM		John Cameron Mitchell & Eyelids Waves of Fear John Cameron Mitchell & Eyelids Waves of Fear - Single Jealous Butcher Records 2019
5:56 PM		The Guess Who Humpty's Blues / American Woman (Epilogue) The Guess Who American Woman (Expanded Edition) RCA/Legacy 1970
6:02 PM		Guided By Voices Babies and Gentlemen N Thick Rich And Delicious GBV Inc 2025
6:02 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:10 PM		Wim Malgo Seine Gute Warum Das Blut Jesu
6:14 PM		Rik and the Pigs Catholic Guilt Rik and the Pigs The Last Laugh Lumpy Records 2021 Band name inspired by a Walking Dead episode title! From Olympia, WA. https://rikandhispigs.bandcamp.com
6:16 PM		Negative Space Inspection House Negative Space Cruelty Drunken Sailor Records 2018 Not to be confused with US early 70s heavy psych rock band from Camden, NJ. Formed in 1969, they released one privately-pressed album ‘Hard, Heavy, Mean and Evil’ in 1970. Only 500 copies were originally issued. They have evolved subsequentially into Snow (25). These guys are from London. https://spacenegative.bandcamp.com/album/cruelty
6:20 PM		Model/Actriz Mosquito Model/Actriz Dogsbody True Panther Records 2023 Model/Actriz is an American rock band, formed in 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts, that is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. The group consists of drummer Ruben Radlauer, guitarist Jack Wetmore, vocalist Cole Haden, and bassist Aaron Shapiro.
6:23 PM		Snapped Ankles Jonny Guitar Calling Gosta Berlin Snapped Ankles Come Play the Trees The Leaf Label 2017
6:31 PM		Polvo Fractured (Like Chandeliers) Polvo Celebrate the New Dark Age Merge Records 1994 From Chapel Hill, NC.
6:36 PM		Cherubs Full Regalia Cherubs Immaculada High Relapse Records 2019 Cherubs are an American noise rock band from Austin, Texas, formed in 1991.
6:41 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:48 PM		The Cords Bo's New Haircut The Cords N The Cords Skep Wax Records 2025
6:50 PM		Oblivians Run For Cover Oblivians Desperation In The Red 2013 From Memphis!
6:51 PM		The Gories Cry Girl The Gories N Cry Girl / Everything (That's Mine) - Single Wild Honey Records 2024 From Detroit formed in 1986.
6:54 PM		Walter Daniels, Oblivians & Monsieur Jeffrey Evans Sticks and Stones Melissa's Garage Revisited Sympathy for the Record Industry 1999 Transplanted to Austin, TX, Walter Daniels has brought the harmonica into quite a few styles of music not normally associated with the little hand held harp, including punk rock, country & western, and avant-garde free improvisation.
6:57 PM		Flat Duo Jets Frog Went a Courtin' Go Go Harlem Baby Sky Records 1990 Flat Duo Jets was an American rock band from Carrboro, North Carolina, and Athens, Georgia.
7:00 PM		Mac Davis It's Hard to Be Humble Mac Davis Stop and Smell the Roses Columbia/Legacy 1974
7:04 PM		The Partridge Family Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree The Partridge Family A Partridge Family Christmas Card BMG Special Products 1971
7:07 PM		Flat Worms Diver Flat Worms N Letters from the Outpost / Diver - Single GOD? 2024 From L.A.
7:10 PM		Mush Hazmat Suits Mush Lines Redacted Memphis Industries 2021 From Leeds, UK.
7:14 PM		Squid The Hearth and Circle Round Fire (Edit) Squid N The Hearth and Circle Round Fire - Single Warp Records 2025 Formed in Brighton UK in 2016.
7:17 PM		Cola Mendicant Cola N Mendicant - Single Fire Talk 2025 Cola is a post-punk band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band consists of Tim Darcy, Ben Stidworthy, and Evan Cartwright.
7:20 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:26 PM		The Move Hello Susie The Move Shazam A&M 1970
7:31 PM		Citric Dummies I Don't Like Anything Citric Dummies N Split With Turnstile Feel It Records 2025
7:33 PM		Ought Today More Than Any Other Day Ought More Than Any Other Day Constellation 2014 Ought was a post-punk band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band consisted of Tim Darcy, Ben Stidworthy, Matt May and Tim Keen.
7:38 PM		Optic Sink Laughing Backwards Optic Sink N Lucky Number Feel It Records 2025 From Memphis. Optic Sink is the post-punk project from Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS), Ben Bauermeister, and Keith Cooper.
7:44 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:47 PM		International Teachers Of Pop Age of the Train International Teachers Of Pop International Teachers of Pop Desolate Spools 2019
7:48 PM		The Partridge Family Sleigh Ride The Partridge Family R A Partridge Family Christmas Card BMG Special Products 1971 Going out to Space Cowboy!
7:53 PM		The Partridge Family Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas The Partridge Family A Partridge Family Christmas Card BMG Special Products 1971
7:56 PM		Mission of Burma Einstein's Day Mission of Burma Vs. Matador 1982

Chat is archived.

hey

Sheer coincidence…I cleaned out my garage today..much more space available

I have been clicked in all day. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you have a great show.

sweet, Richard!

thanks!

hey, Carlos!

that is a good feeling, cleaning

takes a while for me to get started but when I do!

hey there

hey andrew

Hey Esoterica, way back on March 21, 2024, you said in the chat that I could get a massage to Water Shrews. I don't think I told you that my main massage therapist was game, liked Water Shrews, and absolutely loves Verity Den so that she now plays both albums when I am getting a massage

howdy, rob! I did?! That is great

better than generic indigenous-sinpired yet not authentic New Age music?

inspired

In October, I announced on this chat that Patty McCormack ("The Bad Seed") is starring in a play in Long Branch. Most tickets have sold:

https://njrep.org/show/just-another-day/

oh, cool. David. I will check it out.

Hey Jane addiction copy the style of that intro to that Liza tune

love it, G Jax, you mean they do live?

or on one of the albums? I forget

@Esoterica, heck yeah! Plus, my massage therapist studied under free jazz composer Bill Dixon when he was a professor at Bennington College in Vermont. So she often plays Bill Dixon albums too

nice! rob

"My blue Heaven" was a sequel (of sorts) to "GoodFellas"

No, for the tune"Stop"

really, randy? I never saw it

@rob my cousins went to Bennington!!!

nice - when I was in college that was supposed to be the most expensive college in the us, rob

randy, seen goodfellas, but not my blue heaven, is it good?

@Esoterica, (in March 2024) you were playing Water Shrews, and I said I liked them, and you replied saying I could get a massage to them. I like that she likes free jazz and similar genres

Steve Martin is the gangster in witness protection; pretty good actually; I think Nora ephron wrote it

oh yeah, randy

love that, rob, haha

@Esoterica, I didn't know that about Bennington ($$$) but I'm not all that surprised

Glad to be tuned in!

hey pengy! thanks for tuning in!

Wow! Great show so s

hey inspector! thx!

squawkin like a pink monkey bird

oh yeah!

hey bri

long time no see:)

nice to have ya here. I just saw John Cameron Mitchell sing this at ArtYard this past weekend.

will we ever hear the esoterica karaoke version of this one again?

yes, when Glambo and I do it up this spring drive, with any luck!

right on!

Raul Malo... that hurts. So wanted to see the Mavericks or one of his solo shows at New Hope Winery over the past decade or so... missed that chance. RIP.

Love their version of Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens).

RIP yes I heard they came out with an album dedicated to Spanish ballads?

yeah that was cool. what a voice wow

I am sure:)

"squawkin like a pink monkey bird" THAT's some artwork I need to make, right there

oh yeah! randy

I got two things in the pipeline right now, but that could sneak up in the queue

yup, randy:)

hey requests for Malo, Bri?

I'll give myself a deadline of Jan 8 on that

There was a 2 person WPRB station ID that quoted the Bowie "pink monkey bird" line about 20 years ago. Maybe the 2 people that did the Hey You Kids Get Off My Lawn show?

I remember hearing that within that past couple years or so

Hi :)

great set esoterica! and yeah eyelids are good aren't they? Chris and John main guys, Chris always wears the dorky sweaters. he's interviewed recently on the WAIM (?) website about his many ventures.

hey Kristin!

adore the sweaters

I think there was an online archive of Jimmy Page's sweater vests? Or maybe that was just a chatchy title for a led zep blog?

ha!

randy

In our house, we declare that only vice-principals should be allowed to wear sweater vests

cardigans also a good wardrobe go to!

ha, randy! I love cardigans and sweater vests:) wear them proudly.

I do teach tho

maybe that works haha

Oi - this is awesome

love it!

hey Francis:)

Happy holidays

Happy holidays to you!:)

I can't believe we are here in xmas land etc.

this fall flew by

Worst day of the year is coming up - Dec 21 -shortest., and everything's good afterwards. This is fairly mellow for snapped ankles -I usually hear them on my Metz or GilaBand playlists

oh yeah, it is fairly mellow. Francis, I almost thought you were going to mention ATLAS/31, the comet haha

I am kinda fascinated by the hype

I missed the refreshing playlist and thought "snapped ankles" had to do with ppl running in snow (as I would do)

actually I did snap my ankle badly June 2024

Atlas 31 was interesting from the abnormal acceleration,Most scientists guessed it was from offgassing, but would have been cool to have evidence of an actual alien. Sigh not yet

Obligatory polvo comment

hey there hollaartyourboy

francis, isn't it coming close December 19, well relatively close lol - there is that Harvard prof is still Beijing it is aliens.

believing

not Beijing

Hey Eso! That Polvo was great! I'm not familiar with them

Yeah - that Harvard guy is a bit nuts - I read a bunch about him a year or so ago. Too smart for his own good -lol

Hey Li Maria!

They've been around for awhile. aren't they great?

I think way back to 1990

lol yeah francis

Yeah! They're still active?

yes I believe so.

Cool--I'll have to check them out : )

Evening, everyone! loving the show Esoterica

Loving the noise rock segment

sweet, Francis.

same same. thats some good noise

hey Zach, thanks for the kind words! glad you like

diggin this old school garage rawk!

Before I forget - any one here (besides me) going to punk rock flea market in Jackson this weekend? We're going Saturday to meet up with my friend from Philly club days, Nancy barile

Andrew, great! enjoy

waza

oh sweet, randy.

hey Matt!

nancy barile is awesome! don't know her personally but i love her book

Were the Flat Duo Jets the first two piece rock band? Or just the first two peace rock band that I can think of…

I want to read that book!

don't rightly know, G Jax

It's great - and accurate (cuz I was there LOL)

haha!

Ahhh good old Mac

I missed the show in Camden when Ian MacKaye got hit by a car b/c I was in NYC that weekend

oh yeah G Jax:)

I missed the SHOW b/c I was in NYC; Ian didn't get hit by a car b/c I was in NYC LOL

wow

I HAD the Partridge Family Xmas album!!! I hadn't discovered Columbia house and didn't by my own records yet; mom dud

*did

That Partridge family, Christmas tune was awesome

I have to play more of that album next week.

thx!

agree, priceless

I liked the partridge family when I was a kid and I like him even more now actually. But somehow I have no recollection of their Christmas record. It's weird I can remember obscure stuff, but somehow sometimes the obvious stuff I forget.

David Cassidy was a pretty ok singer - damn that Don Kirschner

Remember that David Cassidy movie where he was a narc?

you and me both, on remebering

remembering

My cousins step dad knew all those guys - i met both Don Kirschner AND Clive davis

My cousins stepdad was the voice of The Archies - Ron Dante

wow, cool trivia randy

Clive Davis is obviously bigger in the big scheme of things, but Don Kirschner impresses me way more. That was my childhood. Staying up late to watch Don Kirchner's rock concert. Awesome times.

He produced Barry manilow, Bette milder, Cher (when she was with Gene Simmons) bunch of others

it was new wave theatre for me, Peter Iivers

Ivers

Partridges were on arista, I believe?

Stanley Tuccis Clive in the Whitney movie was PERFECT!!!

the album I played was bell

I didn't see the Whitney film. is it good?

Ah! Right!

Love how Squid follows Flat Worms. Love these animal band names

yeah for sure, rob:) unplanned of course

We'll be into arthropods next?

hmm? lol

like the scorpions?

Isn't there a band Ant Bee? They had a record called 'Two Famous Insects'

Ziggy's Spiders, duh

or The Bug Club

Or on Gilligans Island, The Mosquitos!!!!

yup all of those!

And of course, don't forget The Honeybees.

that, too

That Honeybees song rocked. Mrs Howell stole the moment

Adam and the ants

Mrs Howell went through some stuff IRL

Creationists would insist we start with Genesis LOL

Quantum physics would say Particle

Or Nebula

Wow, how cool to hear the Move on the airwaves. I bought Shazam when it came out in 1970. Great album. Thanx!

oh yeah! hey chris

tune in next week for more glam

Requesting more partridge family Christmas

@ randy partridge family on bell records - honey red were on asylum records

Honeybees on asylum

you got it, space cowboy

Ha in the diner now. What's playing? Partridge Family version of 'Cherish'..

that is crazy, G Jax

mean to be

meant to be

Bell BECAME Arista!!! "In November 1974, Bell Records was reorganized and essentially transformed into the new Arista Records."

good took, randy

good to know

Something in my brain, just said so

everyone, thanks for tuning in and checking in!

I always say (phonetically) "I was born in Saint Lewis"

thanks, that males sense

makes

Partridge of Burma. Thx ESO!

yes!!

hey rofflestomp!

it's wacky mix that just makes sense

you're so welcome

freeform af

tthanks for the fun tunes esoo

sure thing, andrew:)

thx for stopping by

bye, y'all