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The Sonic Bloom

Jan 20, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Join me for punk, post-punk, synth, folk as well as film and broadway tunes!

Best of 2025 Part 3!

yo!

5:01 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004 From 1971, originally.
5:09 PM		We Contain Multitudes Bathroom Drugs We Contain Multitudes N Minako Expert Work Records 2025 Out of New York.
5:13 PM		Powerplant Heat Powerplant N Heat - EP Arcane Dynamics 2025 London-based synth band that started as a one-man band by Theo from Ukraine.
5:16 PM		Vile Bees Hot Probs Vile Bees N Joy Coughs Seismic Wave Entertainment 2025 From Milwaukee. https://vilebees.bandcamp.com
5:20 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:27 PM		Tyler Childers Nose On The Grindstone Tyler Childers N Snipe Hunter Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records 2025
5:31 PM		Edith Frost What a Drag Edith Frost N In Space Drag City 2025 Frost's first album in twenty years. She was part of the 90s rock scene at Drag City.
5:35 PM		Earth Tongue Dungeon Vision Earth Tongue N Dungeon Vision - Single In The Red 2025 Two piece from Wellington, New Zealand. Produced by Ty Segall and Earth Tongue. Vocals and Guitar by Gussie Larkin and Drums & Vocals by Ezra Simons.
5:38 PM		Maraudeur EC Blah.Blah Maraudeur N Flaschenträger Feel It Records 2025 From Leipzig.
5:40 PM		Fog Lamp Above The Fray Fog Lamp N Still Entangled Siltbreeze Records 2026 From the Bay Area. https://heatwavemag.com/2023/11/30/fog-lamps-humble-journey-exploring-lifes-realities-in-lets-not/ New new! So not from 2025, doesn't make the list of best of of last year. But maybe for best of 2026?
5:45 PM		The Tubs One More Day The Tubs N Cotton Crown Trouble In Mind Records 2025 Welsh. band from Cardiff, now based in London. Vocalist gets compared to Richard Thompson.
5:49 PM		Citric Dummies I Can't Relate Citric Dummies N Split With Turnstile Feel It Records 2025 From Minneapolis. https://first-avenue.com/performer/citric-dummies/
5:51 PM		The Gobs Bad Day to Be a Beer The Gobs N Obsgay Uleray - EP 3412188 Records DK 2025 For Olympia, Washington.
5:53 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:00 PM		Superheaven Humans For Toys Superheaven N Superheaven Blue Grape Music Inc. 2025 From Doylestown.
6:03 PM		Autobahns Bad day Autobahns N Split 7" - Single Goodbye Boozy Records 2025 Leipzig's split with the Australian band, Elvis II.
6:04 PM		Skull Cult Language Skull Cult N Can't You See What I Mean? - EP Under the Gun 2025 From Bloomington, Indiana. Such good stuff.
6:06 PM		Las eras Incómodo Las eras N Incómodo - Single 3385030 Records DK 2025 From Buenos Aires!
6:08 PM		Deeper Planet X Deeper N Casiopea - EP Rainbow Music 2025 Chicago quartet. 2018 was the year of the full-length debut.
6:12 PM		Omni High Ceilings Omni N High Ceilings - Single Sub Pop Records 2025 From Atlanta. Frankie Broyles on guitar and keyboards was from Deerhunter.
6:13 PM		Automelodi Tout arracher Automelodi N Cavallo - EP Automelodi 2025 From Montreal.
6:19 PM		Nape Neck Wide Awake Nape Neck N The Shallowest End Dot Dash Sounds 2025 From Leeds!
6:22 PM		Hélène Barbier Kindness in a cup Hélène Barbier N Panorama Bonsound 2025 https://www.bonsound.com/en/artist/helene-barbier/ Released in November. From Montreal.
6:26 PM		Catherine Leduc Les pentes glissantes m’échappent souvent Catherine Leduc N Les jours où il neige à tous les postes Catherine Leduc 2025 https://www.bravomusique.com/en/artists/catherine-leduc/
6:30 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:36 PM		Paris 1942 Animale Paris 1942 N Paris 1942 Superior Viaduct 2025 Archival material compiled by Richard Bishop from dozens of tapes into a double LP.
6:52 PM		Wombo Cloud 36 Wombo N Danger in Fives Fire Talk 2025 From Louisville.
6:55 PM		Illiterates Remember When Illiterates N Does Not Compute Sorry State Records 2025 Hardcore from Pittsburgh!
6:56 PM		Joni Void Cloud Level (feat. YTAMO) Joni Void N Every Life Is A Light Constellation 2025 From Montreal.
7:00 PM		Kinski Experimental Hugs Kinski N Stumbledown Terrace Comedy Minus One 2025 From Seattle.
7:02 PM		Son of Dribble Lion in the Road Son of Dribble N Poking a Hole in a Bag of Tears Son of Dribble 2025 From Columbus, Ohio. https://matternews.org/culture/music/son-of-dribbl...
7:05 PM		Swans Guardian Spirit Swans N Birthing Mute 2025 A truncated/edited version of this song. Powerful stuff.
7:10 PM		The Ex The Evidence (LP Version) The Ex N If Your Mirror Breaks Ex Records 2025 From Amsterdam! Celebrating 45 years. https://theex.bandcamp.com/album/great-the-evidence
7:13 PM		Blood Orange Countryside (feat. Eva Tolkin, Liam Benzvi & Ian Isiah) Blood Orange N Essex Honey Domino Recording Co./RCA Records 2025
7:16 PM		Model/Actriz Cinderella Model/Actriz N Cinderella - Single True Panther Records 2025 On tour with Peaches!
7:21 PM		Jon Caspi & The First Gun My Shrinking Brain (feat. Peter Holsapple) Jon Caspi & The First Gun N Airport Plaza II - EP 2026 New song! Not from the Best of 2025 because it's 2026. But it's good! A compelling live artist and storyteller, Caspi, performs both with band and solo acoustic and has shared the stage with acts such as Bruce Springsteen, The Psychedelic Furs, The Gaslight Anthem, Glenn Tillbrook (Squeeze), The Smithereens, ~X~, Dramarama, Willie Nile, Jeffrey Gaines, Jesse Malin, The Dickies, Adolescents, The Wallflowers, The Alarm, & many more.
7:25 PM		Richard Dawson Gondola Richard Dawson N End of the Middle Weird World 2025 Folk prog musician from Newcastle upon Tyne.
7:29 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:36 PM		Prism Shores Weightless Prism Shores N Out From Underneath Meritorio Records 2025 From Montreal. https://prismshores.bandcamp.com/album/out-from-underneath
7:38 PM		Hotline TNT The Scene Hotline TNT N Raspberry Moon Third Man Records 2025 https://tmrwmagazine.com/en/news/album-review-raspberry-moon-by-hotline-tnt
7:41 PM		Olof Dreijer Blood Lily (Verraco Remix) Olof Dreijer N Iris - EP Dekmantel 2025 Olof Dreijer is a Swedish DJ, producer, and musicianwho plays with electronic music's boundaries. He's best known for forming the electronic duo The Knife with his sibling Karin Dreijer, known as Fever Ray.
7:47 PM		Squid The Hearth and Circle Round Fire Squid N The Hearth and Circle Round Fire - Single Warp Records 2025
7:52 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:55 PM		Hyper Minds Nacho Hyper Minds N Nacho - Single Hyper Minds 2025
7:58 PM		Gary Numan Please Push No More Gary Numan N Telekon (45th Anniversary Expanded Edition) Beggars Banquet 2025 45th anniversary edition!

Chat is archived.

hey!

Hey Hey Hay Fat Albert.

Hey Eso! Imperatives are afoot.

Hey Lester!

Hey Roffle!

That's the old bit from the "Wonderfulness" album, right?

the best the flabbiest the coolest

fabbest!

Saw a great Tuba player Saturday. I think she is part of an ensemble, Tubular. I thought I told you about playing Lola

jeez autocorrect no bueno

Wonderfulness. YES!

Nice, Lester! Lola as in the kinks hit? or Barry manilow?

Hai @David

Got any Lola Falana records?

Manitlow was quite brilliant. If I Am not mistaken he wrote the songs?

true very true, Lester that made the young girls cry

hi David! now that is a blast form the past Lola falana. I can def find some of her work.

Hey DJE!

Hey Stevie P!

I guess Mr. M's schedule does not agree with my new timeliest? I never hear from him.

*time slot

Not that your his keeper, Stevie!

you're

They played Romeo Void last night. I was asleep. But it infected my dream space. I drilled down into the iron core of Earth itself.

Romeo void is cool

I was wondering about MrM too. I see him Friday mornings for the New Abnormal show.

interesting

Earth has an iron core? That's not what I read in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar stories.

hmm?

Ongowah

It's a vast, sunlit subterranean realm inside the Earth's crust, lit by a perpetual central "sun" (the planet's molten core), where time feels meaningless because there's no day/night cycle, no horizon, and prehistoric creatures like dinosaurs roam alongside stone-age human tribes, intelligent reptilian Mahars (who once dominated as slavers), saber-toothed tigers, and more.

I have a timeshare there.

Can I get it at high season? We got quarters of eight.

Sure. The tourist season gets a bit busy for me. :)

Aaron Siri, Vaccines Amen.

Chipmunk Tales

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

hey thanks richard

oh damn this songs heat

hey michael

oh yeah:)

(private to esoterica) There is no way that I can discern what is actual song, or what is the machine Welcome to the Machine. E minor, followed by a major.

aw welcome to the gilded age os AI?

why does he saying that?

keep

dunno

help a sister out haha

My old GF was here last night. We remembered the old days and fine time and fun we had . As the tears rolled down my face, the Ruby's fell at my ankles.

I gathered them up. Put them into a hot oven. Diamonds. I tells you.

Blood tears from the ex? That tracks.

right, roffle

Knock Three Times on the Ceiling if you want me. lol double dog dare you.

At the Earth's Core (1914) The original adventure. David Innes and inventor Abner Perry drill into the Earth with an "iron mole" machine and discover Pellucidar. They encounter the Mahars, primitive humans, and David falls in love with Dian the Beautiful.

Feast of St Sebastian ? I have no arrows left in my quiver/

Good frosty evening

New Edith Frost???!!!

Basic kindness. I will ask Rick Rubin about that. PSA

The barge could be on fire and sinking at the same time and Jerry would not be flustered

true true

@carlos

Rick rolled. We got the powah.

hey esoterica

hey Michael;)

thanks for joining the chat

Is Phil Specter still in jail for murder? Wall of jail

Evening everyone! I've been quietly listening since the start of the show

wall of sound kind of stuff

oh yeah I see that

hi rob.

Spector died in 2021.

but he lives on in a legend of the 'Wall of Sound"

true

I like the high lonesome sound.

sons of the pioneers?

Mothers. Just spit balling here.

Our Blondage vixens are channeling Jocasta's moment of truth. She's realized it all: the forbidden union, the twisted bloodline, the prophecy fulfilled in the most profane way. No more denial. She doesn't claw her eyes; she chooses the noose, swift and silent, escaping the gaze of shame."

No worries Not the first time I have been blocked. !

Great past 45 minutes since I've been locked in!

wazaaaaaa

sweet, milkbuff!

yo, mats!

hi!

Nape Neck! Citric Dummies!

yeah! Too Predictable!? these are 2025 faves for sure

good stuff

agree:) thanks, mats

Citric Dummies crack me up

oh yeah ha

My wife was happy to hear the Swans piece

awesome, Rob. love Swans

Jon Caspi is one of the "Songwriters in the Round" playing Saturday night at Outpost in the Burbs (40 S Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ).

thanks for the info, david

The Saturday after next, Jon Caspi and the First Gun will play with Bobby Mahoney at the North Shore School of Music (3253 NJ-35, Hazlet, NJ). That's real close to Airport Plaza!

ha! where is airport plaza?

It's a Hazlet shopping center at Rt. 36 and Middle Road.

https://www.google.com/search?q=airport+plaza+Hazlet&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&inm=vs#ebo=0

got it! thx, David. local lore for sure

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTcYvSdvUkTeDIfUHepzDDGU62x05FnjnLb1sFS1MgXFOpfdd8CfwoOtCjS&s=10

yup!

Thanks for this great show, Esoterica! Until the next time

Thanks, Rob!

Thanks, everyone!

See you next week!

bye y'all.