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The Sonic Bloom

Jan 6, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

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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5:03 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:08 PM		The Bug Club Appropriate Emotions The Bug Club N Very Human Features Sub Pop Records 2025
5:11 PM		Bill Fox Wings of December Bill Fox N Resonance Eleventh Hour Recording Company 2025
5:15 PM		Bill Fox Pale Blue Eyes Bill Fox N Pale Blue Eyes - Single 2025
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".
5:27 PM		Paper Jam Polka Dot Girl Paper Jam N This and That 7820967 Records DK2 2025 From Texas!
5:29 PM		Kieran Hebden & William Tyler Secret City Kieran Hebden & William Tyler N 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s Temporary Residence Ltd. 2025
5:37 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
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...
6:12 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
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/
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
6:21 PM		Exek Welcome to my Alibi (Live at Rrr) EXEK N Live at RRR Exek 2025 From Melbourne, Australia.
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
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.
6:38 PM		Tony Molina Despise The Sun Tony Molina On This Day Slumberland Records, Speakeasy Studios SF, Olde Fade 2025
6:40 PM		Snõõper Opt Out Snõõper N Worldwide Third Man Records 2025
6:42 PM		Water From Your Eyes Life Signs Water From Your Eyes N It's A Beautiful Place Matador 2025
6:46 PM		Water Damage Reel 32 Water Damage N Instruments 12XU 2025
7:03 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
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/
7:47 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:50 PM		Mike Polizze Everybody I Know N Around Sound Paradise of Bachelors 2025 https://mikepolizze.bandcamp.com/album/around-sound
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.

Chat is archived.

hi!

Hi!

Hi, stevie!

hope you are well:)

Hi!

Hi, Rob!

happy new year

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.

right, G Jax:)

andhi...

Hi Esoterica, Stevie P, and G Jax

hi!

Howdy all

Howdy

any fave releases this past year for you all?

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.

Hola a todos

Hola a ti, Carlos

hi!

Fave release? Horsegirl "Phonetics On And On" and Prolapse "I Wonder When They’re Going To Destroy Your Face"

great releases and neither on my list. thanks! making notes.

Not much on new music, that is why I listen to station to learn. I would say Dead Milkmen cover of suburban lawns JANITOR

wow that sounds cool, carlos.

must check out

thx

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

hey richard thanks

Hello Eso! I'm only tangentially familiar with Nathan Salzburg, but this is really nice

thanks, bud. interesting with these pauses, right?

and hi!

i find this piece calming

Yeah, the pauses are interesting

San Diego = Mojo Nixon!!!

If you don’t have mojo Nixon, your store could use some fixin

right!

Great doc out there on the beat farmers/ country dick

really, carlos?

didn't know

must check out:)

Pay up cheaters…on you tube. I know what I am doing tonight

whatcha doing?

Whatching it again….after your show of course

awesome i will too, maybe tomorrow:) thx for the rec.

are you from SD, too, Carlos?

That previous tuna was noice. The second Exek one, I think.

hey milkbuff

agree!:)

that live tuna?

@DJ…import from Argentina. Philly area since we landed here. Huge mojo and roots rock fan

sweet! carlos

one thing I love about Snooper is that I know it's them in about 2 notes. hi, Esoterica!

Yes! So true

hi jen!

also I just saw that I missed a new Bill Fox single???? holy cow, going back for a listen on that one!

sweet! i only discovered that bill fox song today. have always loved him

jen, i saw you will be subbing soon again, no?

same! and yep, I'll be on tonight at 11pm ET! for the late-night party crowd

awesome:)

@Jen..can’t stay up that late on a school night

@Carlos hopefully I can! I'll see you Friday instead :}

haha, i will def catch you friday if not tonight. btw ny hubby ward loved your show, jen!

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oh that's such a nice compliment! thank you!

sure thing! you have a great show!

thanks for the promo!

you are welcome

Well the lights are dim, the incense is burning, I got my hookah but I can't find my damn love beads

ha, sean! this is very meditative.

oh man, where are those love beads!?

Should have looked first before I got the hookah

haha yes

This is fun

hey roffle for sure

It just plods along having a day music. :)

oh yeah and it is super groovy

It is

Did the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen since this started and on it goes... love it

i am not gonna tell you when this ends either haha

I appreciate that. ;)

The accordion players arm must be getting pretty tired

yes ha

Aw just when it was getting interesting

Play it backwards now. :)

ha!

Great show, Esoterica! Ty and happy new year!

Ty!

Happy new year!

Thanks, everyone!!

See you next week!

🤘

bye for now