Esoterica (host)
5:09:13 PM
hi!
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The Sonic Bloom
Jan 6, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Music
With Esoterica
Folky, punky, poppy, jangly, post-punky, and psychedelic goodness of the musical variety coming out of your speakers courtesy of moi. oh yeah, and occasional show tunes.
Best of 2025 Part I!
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| Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
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| 5:08 PM |
| The Bug Club Appropriate Emotions The Bug Club N Very Human Features Sub Pop Records 2025
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| 5:11 PM |
| Bill Fox Wings of December Bill Fox N Resonance Eleventh Hour Recording Company 2025
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| 5:15 PM |
| Bill Fox Pale Blue Eyes Bill Fox N Pale Blue Eyes - Single 2025
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| 5:20 PM |
| Silver Synthetic Yr Gonna Be Happy Silver Synthetic N Rosalie Curation Records 2025  From New Orleans! |
| 5:23 PM |
| Jobber Raw Is War Jobber N Jobber To The Stars Exploding In Sound Records 2025 Self-described "disgraced rock n roll band out of Brooklyn".
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| 5:27 PM |
| Paper Jam Polka Dot Girl Paper Jam N This and That 7820967 Records DK2 2025 From Texas!
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| 5:29 PM |
| Kieran Hebden & William Tyler Secret City Kieran Hebden & William Tyler N 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s Temporary Residence Ltd. 2025
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| 5:48 PM |
| Nathan Salsburg Part I Nathan Salzburg N Ipsa Corpora No Quarter 2025  Salzburg lives in Kentucky. https://nelsonvillefest.org/artist/nathan-salsburg... |
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| 6:14 PM |
| Dirt Preachers Union Flowers Dirt Preachers Union N Flowers - Single Big Medicine Head 2025 https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/11/14/award-winning-san-diego-singer-songwriter-paul-kamanski-dies-at-68/
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| 6:18 PM |
| Exek Sidestepping N Prove The Mountains Move DFA 2026 Officially coming out Feb. 27. https://exek.bandcamp.com/album/prove-the-mountains-move
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| 6:21 PM |
| Exek Welcome to my Alibi (Live at Rrr) EXEK N Live at RRR Exek 2025 From Melbourne, Australia.
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| 6:25 PM |
| Good Flying Birds Dynamic Good Flying Birds N Talulah's Tape Carpark Records 2025  From Indianapolis! |
| 6:28 PM |
| Steve Gunn Nearly There Steve Gunn N Daylight Daylight No Quarter 2025  Based in Brooklyn. Love him! |
| 6:35 PM |
| The Dissidents Sinister Transmissions N A Better World 2025 https://thedissidents.bandcamp.com/track/sinister-transmissions-2
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| 6:37 PM |
| Tony Molina FC '23 Tony Molina N On This Day Slumberland Records, Speakeasy Studios SF, Olde Fade 2025 Out of the Bay area.
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| 6:38 PM |
| Tony Molina Despise The Sun Tony Molina On This Day Slumberland Records, Speakeasy Studios SF, Olde Fade 2025
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| 6:40 PM |
| Snõõper Opt Out Snõõper N Worldwide Third Man Records 2025
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| 6:42 PM |
| Water From Your Eyes Life Signs Water From Your Eyes N It's A Beautiful Place Matador 2025
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| 6:46 PM |
| Water Damage Reel 32 Water Damage N Instruments 12XU 2025
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| 7:10 PM |
| Natural Information Society Perseverance Flow Natural Information Society N Perseverance Flow New Soil 2025 https://offshelf.net/2025/10/29/natural-information-societys-joshua-abrams/
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| 7:50 PM |
| Mike Polizze Everybody I Know N Around Sound Paradise of Bachelors 2025 https://mikepolizze.bandcamp.com/album/around-sound
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| 7:54 PM |
| Equipment Pointed Ankh Eggs A Little Late Equipment Pointed Ankh N Eggs A Little Late Petty Bunco 2025 
Out of Louisville! https://equipmentpointedankh.bandcamp.com/ |
| 8:00 PM |
| Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band Monte Carlo / No Limits Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band N Monte Carlo / No Limits - Single Tough Love Records 2025 I will play this next week, too! Because it got cut off.
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Chat is archived.
Stevie P
5:09:37 PM
Hi!
Esoterica (host)
5:09:59 PM
Hi, stevie!
Esoterica (host)
5:11:12 PM
hope you are well:)
Rob from Best of Maryland 🦀
5:11:32 PM
Hi!
Esoterica (host)
5:11:49 PM
Hi, Rob!
Esoterica (host)
5:11:54 PM
happy new year
G Jax
5:11:58 PM
Lalo Schifirin didn't die this past year, of course. But he did die so you could still memorialize him. Call it the "I'm still dead" memorial show.
Esoterica (host)
5:12:17 PM
right, G Jax:)
Esoterica (host)
5:12:21 PM
andhi...
Rob from Best of Maryland 🦀
5:12:25 PM
Hi Esoterica, Stevie P, and G Jax
Esoterica (host)
5:12:25 PM
hi!
G Jax
5:13:45 PM
Howdy all
Esoterica (host)
5:13:53 PM
Howdy
Esoterica (host)
5:14:59 PM
any fave releases this past year for you all?
G Jax
5:15:43 PM
My favorite releases are always things. I hear this year but are no younger than 30 years old usually. It's just the way it is.
Carlos Ramone
5:15:55 PM
Hola a todos
Esoterica (host)
5:16:29 PM
Hola a ti, Carlos
Esoterica (host)
5:16:37 PM
hi!
Rob from Best of Maryland 🦀
5:26:27 PM
Fave release? Horsegirl "Phonetics On And On" and Prolapse "I Wonder When They’re Going To Destroy Your Face"
Esoterica (host)
5:27:54 PM
great releases and neither on my list. thanks! making notes.
Carlos Ramone
5:31:42 PM
Not much on new music, that is why I listen to station to learn. I would say Dead Milkmen cover of suburban lawns JANITOR
Esoterica (host)
5:32:33 PM
wow that sounds cool, carlos.
Esoterica (host)
5:32:38 PM
must check out
Esoterica (host)
5:32:40 PM
thx
Richard Mitnick
5:38:09 PM
I have been clicked in all day. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you are having a great show.
Esoterica (host)
5:47:39 PM
hey richard thanks
Bud Burroughs
6:04:00 PM
Hello Eso! I'm only tangentially familiar with Nathan Salzburg, but this is really nice
Esoterica (host)
6:05:07 PM
thanks, bud. interesting with these pauses, right?
Esoterica (host)
6:05:17 PM
and hi!
Esoterica (host)
6:05:30 PM
i find this piece calming
Bud Burroughs
6:08:21 PM
Yeah, the pauses are interesting
Carlos Ramone
6:10:45 PM
San Diego = Mojo Nixon!!!
Carlos Ramone
6:13:15 PM
If you don’t have mojo Nixon, your store could use some fixin
Esoterica (host)
6:14:12 PM
right!
Carlos Ramone
6:15:31 PM
Great doc out there on the beat farmers/ country dick
Esoterica (host)
6:15:57 PM
really, carlos?
Esoterica (host)
6:16:04 PM
didn't know
Esoterica (host)
6:17:34 PM
must check out:)
Carlos Ramone
6:19:20 PM
Pay up cheaters…on you tube. I know what I am doing tonight
Esoterica (host)
6:21:15 PM
whatcha doing?
Carlos Ramone
6:22:10 PM
Whatching it again….after your show of course
Esoterica (host)
6:23:39 PM
awesome i will too, maybe tomorrow:) thx for the rec.
Esoterica (host)
6:23:48 PM
are you from SD, too, Carlos?
milkbuff
6:27:08 PM
That previous tuna was noice. The second Exek one, I think.
Esoterica (host)
6:28:25 PM
hey milkbuff
Esoterica (host)
6:28:29 PM
agree!:)
Esoterica (host)
6:28:54 PM
that live tuna?
Carlos Ramone
6:30:44 PM
@DJ…import from Argentina. Philly area since we landed here. Huge mojo and roots rock fan
Esoterica (host)
6:32:16 PM
sweet! carlos
Jen Redlights
6:41:20 PM
one thing I love about Snooper is that I know it's them in about 2 notes. hi, Esoterica!
Esoterica (host)
6:41:35 PM
Yes! So true
Esoterica (host)
6:41:38 PM
hi jen!
Jen Redlights
6:41:58 PM
also I just saw that I missed a new Bill Fox single???? holy cow, going back for a listen on that one!
Esoterica (host)
6:42:49 PM
sweet! i only discovered that bill fox song today. have always loved him
Esoterica (host)
6:43:25 PM
jen, i saw you will be subbing soon again, no?
Jen Redlights
6:43:56 PM
same! and yep, I'll be on tonight at 11pm ET! for the late-night party crowd
Esoterica (host)
6:44:31 PM
awesome:)
Carlos Ramone
6:46:52 PM
@Jen..can’t stay up that late on a school night
Jen Redlights
6:49:27 PM
@Carlos hopefully I can! I'll see you Friday instead :}
Esoterica (host)
6:51:03 PM
haha, i will def catch you friday if not tonight. btw ny hubby ward loved your show, jen!
Esoterica (host)
6:51:10 PM
*my
Jen Redlights
6:59:17 PM
oh that's such a nice compliment! thank you!
Esoterica (host)
7:01:38 PM
sure thing! you have a great show!
Jen Redlights
7:03:05 PM
Jen Redlights
7:05:24 PM
thanks for the promo!
Esoterica (host)
7:13:28 PM
you are welcome
sean burns
7:33:26 PM
Well the lights are dim, the incense is burning, I got my hookah but I can't find my damn love beads
Esoterica (host)
7:34:01 PM
ha, sean! this is very meditative.
Esoterica (host)
7:34:16 PM
oh man, where are those love beads!?
sean burns
7:34:42 PM
Should have looked first before I got the hookah
Esoterica (host)
7:35:42 PM
haha yes
Roffle 0x7EA
7:35:50 PM
This is fun
Esoterica (host)
7:36:23 PM
hey roffle for sure
Roffle 0x7EA
7:37:10 PM
It just plods along having a day music. :)
Esoterica (host)
7:37:29 PM
oh yeah and it is super groovy
Roffle 0x7EA
7:37:36 PM
It is
Roffle 0x7EA
7:39:18 PM
Did the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen since this started and on it goes... love it
Esoterica (host)
7:39:51 PM
:)
Esoterica (host)
7:42:56 PM
i am not gonna tell you when this ends either haha
Roffle 0x7EA
7:43:22 PM
I appreciate that. ;)
sean burns
7:44:19 PM
The accordion players arm must be getting pretty tired
Esoterica (host)
7:44:26 PM
yes ha
sean burns
7:46:24 PM
Aw just when it was getting interesting
Roffle 0x7EA
7:48:37 PM
Play it backwards now. :)
Esoterica (host)
7:50:50 PM
ha!
Rob from Best of Maryland 🦀
7:51:01 PM
Great show, Esoterica! Ty and happy new year!
Esoterica (host)
7:51:09 PM
Ty!
Esoterica (host)
7:51:20 PM
Happy new year!
Esoterica (host)
7:56:09 PM
Thanks, everyone!!
Esoterica (host)
7:56:15 PM
See you next week!
Roffle 0x7EA
7:58:08 PM
🤘
Esoterica (host)
7:59:28 PM
bye for now